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| S A MurraySummaryAffiliation: University of Edinburgh Country: UK Publications
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Internationally, it is time to bridge the gap between primary and secondary healthcare services for the dyingScott A Murray
St Columba s Hospice Chair of Primary Palliative Care Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences General Practice, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Ann Acad Med Singapore 37:142-4. 2008....- Protocol for the PINCER trial: a cluster randomised trial comparing the effectiveness of a pharmacist-led IT-based intervention with simple feedback in reducing rates of clinically important errors in medicines management in general practicesAnthony J Avery
Division of Primary Care, The Medical School, Queen s Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
Trials 10:28. 2009.... - Using consecutive Rapid Participatory Appraisal studies to assess, facilitate and evaluate health and social change in community settingsColin S Brown
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9DX, UK
BMC Public Health 6:68. 2006.... - Palliative care making a difference in rural Uganda, Kenya and Malawi: three rapid evaluation field studiesLiz Grant
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences General Practice Section, The University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
BMC Palliat Care 10:8. 2011..abstract:.. - A Phase II randomised controlled trial assessing the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of dignity therapy for older people in care homes: study protocolSue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King s College London, Weston Education Centre, London, UK
BMC Geriatr 9:9. 2009.... - Palliative care in urgent need of recognition and development in general practice: the example of GermanyNils Schneider
Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
BMC Fam Pract 11:66. 2010..Using the German situation as an example, the main purpose of this paper is to argue that the emphasis on specialist palliative care services without a similar encouragement of primary palliative care will deliver a constrained service... - Palliative Care Beyond Cancer: Care for all at the end of lifeScott A Murray
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX
BMJ 336:958-9. 2008 - Serial interviews for patients with progressive diseasesScott A Murray
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9DX, UK
Lancet 368:901-2. 2006 - Implementing a service users' framework for cancer care in primary care: an action research studyScott A Murray
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health General Practice, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX, UK
Fam Pract 25:78-85. 2008..We previously facilitated the development of a service-user designed framework for providing proactive care for people with cancer in the community... - Patterns of social, psychological, and spiritual decline toward the end of life in lung cancer and heart failureScott A Murray
St Columba s Hospice, and Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, 20 West Richmond Street, Edinburgh, UK
J Pain Symptom Manage 34:393-402. 2007..An appreciation of common patterns of social, psychological, and spiritual well-being may assist clinicians as they discuss the likely course of events with patients and carers and try to minimize distress as the disease progresses... - Dying of lung cancer or cardiac failure: prospective qualitative interview study of patients and their carers in the communityScott A Murray
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX, UK
BMJ 325:929. 2002..To compare the illness trajectories, needs, and service use of patients with cancer and those with advanced non-malignant disease... - Illness trajectories and palliative careScott A Murray
Division of Community Health Sciences, General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX
BMJ 330:1007-11. 2005 - Archetypal trajectories of social, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing and distress in family care givers of patients with lung cancer: secondary analysis of serial qualitative interviewsScott A Murray
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX
BMJ 340:c2581. 2010..To assess if family care givers of patients with lung cancer experience the patterns of social, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing and distress typical of the patient, from diagnosis to death... - Dying from cancer in developed and developing countries: lessons from two qualitative interview studies of patients and their carersScott A Murray
Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX
BMJ 326:368. 2003..To describe the experiences of illness and needs and use of services in two groups of patients with incurable cancer, one in a developed country and the other in a developing country... - Exploring the spiritual needs of people dying of lung cancer or heart failure: a prospective qualitative interview study of patients and their carersScott A Murray
Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Palliat Med 18:39-45. 2004.... - General practitioners and their possible role in providing spiritual care: a qualitative studyScott A Murray
Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Br J Gen Pract 53:957-9. 2003..Most said that they had a role in providing spiritual care, but hesitated to raise spiritual issues with patients, mentioning lack of time, a feeling that they should wait for a cue, or being unprepared or unskilled... - How do people with cancer wish to be cared for in primary care? Serial discussion groups of patients and carersMarilyn Kendall
Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX, UK
Fam Pract 23:644-50. 2006..This study successfully brought patient, carer and professional perspectives to the development of a care framework for primary care... - Making sure services deliver for people with advanced heart failure: a longitudinal qualitative study of patients, family carers, and health professionalsKirsty J Boyd
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Community Health Sciences General Practice, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH89DX, UK
Palliat Med 23:767-76. 2009..We conclude that patients with long-term conditions needing palliative care should be identified and managed using pragmatic criteria that include a proactive shift in care goals... - It's time to develop primary care services for the dyingScott A Murray
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
J Palliat Care 22:115-6. 2006 - Assessing and improving out-of-hours palliative care in a deprived community: a rapid appraisal studyC J Y Fergus
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, University of Edinburgh, UK
Palliat Med 24:493-500. 2010..The provision for certain complex patients to bypass NHS24 should be considered if routine care is not satisfactory... - How evidence based is the management of two common sports injuries in a sports injury clinic?I R Murray
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, Scotland, UK
Br J Sports Med 39:912-6; discussion 916. 2005.... - Factors facilitating and challenging access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy in a township in the Zambian Copperbelt: a qualitative studyElizabeth Grant
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences, General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
AIDS Care 20:1155-60. 2008..The increase in the number of people who were expected to die but were now looking well also shifted community attitudes. HIV/AIDS is beginning to move from a hidden terminal disease to a chronic condition that is treatable... - Key challenges and ways forward in researching the "good death": qualitative in-depth interview and focus group studyMarilyn Kendall
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9DX
BMJ 334:521. 2007..To understand key challenges in researching end of life issues and identify ways of overcoming these... - Living with advanced heart failure: a prospective, community based study of patients and their carersKirsty J Boyd
Division of Community Health Sciences, General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Eur J Heart Fail 6:585-91. 2004..Services for people with heart failure are under-developed. The perspectives of patients, their informal and professional carers should inform development of service models... - Spiritual issues and needs: perspectives from patients with advanced cancer and nonmalignant disease. A qualitative studyElizabeth Grant
Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Palliat Support Care 2:371-8. 2004..Patients were also encouraged to explain in what ways their spiritual needs, if they had any, could be addressed... - Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative studyHilary Pinnock
Centre for Population Health Sciences GP Section, University of Edinburgh, UK
BMJ 342:d142. 2011..To understand the perspectives of people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as their illness progresses, and of their informal and professional carers, to inform provision of care for people living and dying with COPD... - Advance care planning for cancer patients in primary care: a feasibility studyKirsty Boyd
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Edinburgh
Br J Gen Pract 60:e449-58. 2010..Advance care planning is being promoted as a central component of end-of-life policies in many developed countries, but there is concern that professionals find its implementation challenging... - Palliative care for people with COPD: we need to meet the challengeScott A Murray
Division of Community Health Sciences: GP Section, University of Edinburgh, 20, West Richmond St, Edinburgh, UK
Prim Care Respir J 15:362-4. 2006..In this Discussion paper we highlight this challenge, and offer some practical strategies to help clinicians recognise these patients... - Primary palliative care: the potential of primary care physicians as providers of palliative care in the community in the Eastern Mediterranean regionS A Murray
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
East Mediterr Health J 18:178-83. 2012.... - The integrated implementation of two end-of-life care tools in nursing care homes in the UK: an in-depth evaluationJ Hockley
Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Palliat Med 24:828-38. 2010..Further work is needed to assess the optimum input required for successful implementation... - Voluntary counselling and testing for HIV in a Zambian mining community: serial interviews with people testing negativeJanet Sikasote
Konkola Copper Mines, Medical Department, Community Medicine Section, Chingola, Zambia
Sex Transm Infect 87:433-8. 2011..To understand the influence of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and an HIV-negative result on subsequent sexual behaviour; and to identify the specific felt needs of those testing negative... - Palliative care in chronic illnessScott A Murray
BMJ 330:611-2. 2005 - Developing primary palliative care: primary palliative care services must be better funded by both day and nightScott A Murray
BMJ 330:671. 2005 - Improving generalist end of life care: national consultation with practitioners, commissioners, academics, and service user groupsCathy Shipman
King s College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Weston Education Centre, London SE5 9RJ
BMJ 337:a1720. 2008..To identify major concerns of national and local importance in the provision, commissioning, research, and use of generalist end of life care... - Developing primary palliative careScott A Murray
BMJ 329:1056-7. 2004 - A good death in rural Kenya? Listening to Meru patients and their families talk about care needs at the end of lifeElizabeth Grant
Chogoria Hospital, Chogoria, Meru, Kenya
J Palliat Care 19:159-67. 2003..Accessible pain relief, affordable clinic or inpatient care when required, and help to cope with the burden of care were among the key needs of patients. Until these are available, many will not die well... - Access to psychological and psychiatric services needs to be improved for the dyingScott A Murray
J R Soc Med 99:601. 2006 - Continuous deep sedation in patients nearing deathScott A Murray
BMJ 336:781-2. 2008 - Advance care planning in primary careScott A Murray
BMJ 333:868-9. 2006 - Health in Africa: time to wake up to cancer's tollScott A Murray
BMJ 331:904. 2005