Of particular interest in this week’s issue of Media Watch (copy attached):

Belgium

Are family carers part of the care team providing end-of-life care? A qualitative interview study on the collaboration between family and professional carers

Workforce planning for community-based palliative care specialist teams using operations research

U.K.

Managing and sharing research data in children’s palliative care: Risks, benefits and imponderables

Patient and public involvement in palliative care research: What works, and why? A qualitative evaluation

In the Lay Press

In pandemic era, the term palliative care is even more scary for some. So specialists want to rename it.

Of particular interest in this week’s issue of Media Watch (copy attached):

Belgium

Palliative care utilisation: Family carers’ behaviours and determinants: A qualitative interview study

Italy

How palliative care professionals deal with predicting life expectancy at the end of life: Predictors and accuracy

U.S.

Will you hear me? Have you heard me? Do you see me? Adding cultural humility to resource allocation and priority setting discussions in the care of African American patients with COVID-19

From the field of pediatric palliative care, and of particular interest in this week’s issue of Media Watch (copy attached):

Canada

Serious illness conversations in pediatrics: A case review

U.S.

Pediatric palliative care when COVID-19 positive adults are dying in a children’s hospital

Diagnosis to death: Family experiences of paediatric heart disease

Of particular interest in this week’s issue of Media Watch (copy attached):

Canada

What are we willing to pay for the quality of death we want?

New Zealand

Palliative care delivery in residential aged care: Bereaved family member experiences of the Supportive Hospice Aged Residential Exchange (SHARE) intervention

Sweden

Toward a consensus on the nature of empathy: A review of reviews