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Experiences of older people dying in nursing homes: a narrative systematic review of qualitative studies
Nan Greenwood, Emma Menzies-Gow, David Nilsson, Dawn Aubrey, Claire L Emery, Angela Richardson

BMJ Open Jun 2018, 8 (6) e021285; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021285
Protocol for the ORaClES study: an online randomised controlled trial to improve clinical estimates of survival using a training resource for medical students
Linda Oostendorp, Nicola White, Priscilla Harries, Sarah Yardley, Christopher Tomlinson, Federico Ricciardi, Hulya Gokalp, Patrick Stone

BMJ Open Mar 2019, 9 (3) e025265; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025265
Study protocol for a cohort study of patients with advanced heart failure in Singapore
Chetna Malhotra, Renette Foo, Ratna Singh, Semra Ozdemir, Irene Teo, David Sim, Fazlur Jaufeerally, Than Aung, Yeo Khung Keong, Nivedita Nadkarni, Eric Andrew Finkelstein

BMJ Open Sep 2018, 8 (9) e022248; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022248
Decision support intervention (Plan Well Guide) for patients and their substitute decision-makers to improve engagement in advance care planning: protocol for a randomised trial
Michelle Howard, Marissa Slaven, Carrie Bernard, Sayem Borhan, Dawn Elston, Neha Arora, Amy Tan, Daren K Heyland

BMJ Open Sep 2019, 9 (9) e027897; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027897
Likelihood of death among hospital inpatients in New Zealand: prevalent cohort study
Merryn Gott, Joanna Broad, Xian Zhang, Lene Jarlbaek, David Clark

BMJ Open Dec 2017, 7 (12) e016880; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016880
Experiences of long-term life-limiting conditions among patients and carers: what can we learn from a meta-review of systematic reviews of qualitative studies of chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic kidney disease?
Carl R May, Amanda Cummings, Michelle Myall, Jonathan Harvey, Catherine Pope, Peter Griffiths, Paul Roderick, Mick Arber, Kasey Boehmer, Frances S Mair, Alison Richardson

BMJ Open Oct 2016, 6 (10) e011694; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011694
Advance care planning in patients with incurable cancer: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Stephanie Johnson, Josephine Clayton, Phyllis N Butow, William Silvester, Karen Detering, Jane Hall, Belinda E Kiely, Jonathon Cebon, Stephen Clarke, Melanie L Bell, Martin Stockler, Phillip Beale, Martin H N Tattersall

BMJ Open Dec 2016, 6 (12) e012387; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012387

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