Project Report
Forbat E, Magregor A, Spilsbury K, McCormack B, Rutherford A, Hanratty B, Hockley J, Davison L, Ogden M, Soulsby I & McKenzie M (2024) Using Palliative Care Needs Rounds in the UK for care home staff and residents: an implementation science study. National Institute of Health Research. Southampton. https://doi.org/10.3310/KRWQ5829
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Forbat L, Sedgley T & Bellussi L (2023) Multiple Myeloma in People of Working Age: A Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis of Experiences of Paid and Unpaid Work. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2023, Art. No.: 6292479. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6292479
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Macgregor A, McCormack B, Spilsbury K, Hockley J, Rutherford A, Ogden M, Soulsby I, McKenzie M, Hanratty B & Forbat L (2023) Supporting care home residents in the last year of life through ‘Needs Rounds’: Development of a pre-implementation programme theory through a rapid collaborative online approach. Frontiers in Health Services, 2, Art. No.: 1019602. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2022.1019602
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Forbat L (2023) Multiple myeloma in people of working age in Czechia, Germany, and Poland: findings from a qualitative interview study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-023-01510-1
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Attitudes toward assisted-death services, perceived supporting norms, and emotional distress
Forbat L (2022) Attitudes toward assisted-death services, perceived supporting norms, and emotional distress. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying.
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Macgregor A, Rutherford A, McCormack B, Hockley J, Ogden M, Soulsby I, McKenzie M, Spilsbury K, Hanratty B & Forbat L (2021) Palliative and end-of-life care in care homes: protocol for codesigning and implementing an appropriate scalable model of Needs Rounds in the UK. BMJ Open, 11 (2), Art. No.: e049486. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049486
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Rainsford S, Johnston N, Liu W, Glasgow N & Forbat L (2020) Palliative care Needs Rounds in rural residential aged care: A mixed-methods study exploring experiences and perceptions of staff and general practitioners. Progress in Palliative Care, 28 (5), pp. 308-317. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699260.2019.1698177
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Defining 'specialist palliative care': findings from a Delphi study of clinicians
Forbat L, Johnston N & Mitchell I (2020) Defining 'specialist palliative care': findings from a Delphi study of clinicians. Australian Health Review, 44 (2), pp. 313-321. https://doi.org/10.1071/ah18198
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Forbat L (2020) The role and value of family therapy for people living with cancer: a rapid review of recent evidence. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 14 (3), pp. 263-269. https://doi.org/10.1097/spc.0000000000000504
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Forbat E, Lui W, Koerner J, Lam L, Johnston N, Samara J & Chapman M (2020) Improved quality of death and dying in care homes: a palliative care stepped wedge randomized control trial in Australia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 68 (2), pp. 305-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16192
Newspaper / Magazine
When a friend dies the impact can be as traumatic as losing a family member
Forbat L & Liu W (2019) When a friend dies the impact can be as traumatic as losing a family member. The Conversation. 13.05.2019.
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Liu W, Forbat L & Anderson K (2019) Death of a close friend: Short and long-term impacts on physical, psychological and social well-being. PLOS ONE, 14 (4), Art. No.: e0214838. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214838
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Lang H, France EF, Williams B, Humphris G & Wells M (2018) The existence and importance of patients' mental images of their head and neck cancer: A qualitative study. PLOS ONE, 13 (12), p. e0209215. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209215
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Forbat L, Chapman M, Lovell C, Liu W & Johnston N (2018) Improving specialist palliative care in residential care for older people: a checklist to guide practice. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 8 (3), pp. 347-353. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2017-001332
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Family Meetings in Inpatient Specialist Palliative Care: A Mechanism to Convey Empathy
Forbat L, Fran?ois K, O'Callaghan L & Kulikowski J (2018) Family Meetings in Inpatient Specialist Palliative Care: A Mechanism to Convey Empathy. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 55 (5), pp. 1253-1259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.01.020
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Carolan C, Smith A, Davies GR & Forbat L (2018) Seeking, accepting and declining help for emotional distress in cancer: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative evidence. European Journal of Cancer Care, 27 (2), Art. No.: e12720. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12720
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Chapman M, Johnston N, Lovell C, Forbat L & Liu W (2018) Avoiding costly hospitalisation at end of life: findings from a specialist palliative care pilot in residential care for older adults. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 8 (1), pp. 102-109. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-001071
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Forbat L, Robinson R, Bilton-Simek R, Francois K, Lewis M & Haraldsdottir E (2018) Distance education methods are useful for delivering education to palliative caregivers: A single-arm trial of an education package (PalliativE Caregivers Education Package). Palliative Medicine, 32 (2), pp. 581-588. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216317712849
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Fran?ois K, Lobb E, Barclay S & Forbat L (2017) The nature of conflict in palliative care: A qualitative exploration of the experiences of staff and family members. Patient Education and Counseling, 100 (8), pp. 1459-1465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.02.019
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Forbat L, Haraldsdottir E, Lewis M & Hepburn K (2016) Supporting the provision of palliative care in the home environment: a proof-of-concept single-arm trial of a PalliativE Carers Education Package (PrECEPt). BMJ Open, 6 (10), Art. No.: e012681. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012681
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Forbat L & Hubbard G (2016) Service user involvement in research may lead to contrary rather than collaborative accounts: findings from a qualitative palliative care study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72 (4), pp. 759-769. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12865
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Hill H, Evans J & Forbat L (2015) Nurses respond to patients' psychosocial needs by dealing, ducking, diverting and deferring: An observational study of a hospice ward. BMC Nursing, 14 (1), Art. No.: 60. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-015-0112-8
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Hill H, Paley J & Forbat L (2014) Observations of professional-patient relationships: A mixed-methods study exploring whether familiarity is a condition for nurses' provision of psychosocial support. Palliative Medicine, 28 (3), pp. 256-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216313499960