The aim of the journal club is to provide an informal multidisciplinary forum for discussion of latest research findings.
You can find some more information about the journal club in this blog for Pallimed.
The paper for discussion this month is ‘An integrated palliative and respiratory care service for patients with advanced disease and refractory breathlessness: a randomised controlled trial’. The paper was published in December 2014 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and is open access.
Questions for discussion:
- In your experience, is unrelieved breathlessness is a significant clinical problem?
- What are the advantages of a fast track trial in palliative care?
- What do you think of the primary endpoint of ‘breathlessness mastery’?
- Are you surprised by the improved survival in the intervention arm? What might be the mechanism?
- Are randomised controlled trials that have patient survival as the primary endpoint needed?
Join the hpmjc on Thursday 26 February from 9-10pm UK time (4pm in New York, 8am on 27 February in Sydney) by following @hpmjc and using the hashtag #hpmjc
Read more on the UK edition of ehospice.
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