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National Clinical Guideline Centre (UK). Care of Dying Adults in the Last Days of Life. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); 2015 Dec 16. (NICE Guideline, No. 31.)

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Appendix LExcluded clinical studies

L.1. Recognising Dying

Table 93Studies excluded from the clinical review of Recognising dying

ReferenceReason for exclusion
Al 201018Incorrect study design, review
Alzahrani 201319Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Anon 2012a3Incorrect study design, abstract
Asch 200530Incorrect study design, discussion/editorial
Barbera 200845Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Barrett 199746Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Bern-Klug 200654Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Campbell 201280Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Casscells 200587Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Cheng 200992Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Cobb 2000108Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Conill 1997111No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Cuervopinna 2009118Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Currow 2010121No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Downing 2011138Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Dunn 2002140Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Dunning 2012141Incorrect study design, literature review
Ellershaw 1995145No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Fainsinger 1991154No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Fantoni 1996155Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Feliu 2011157Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Fordyce 2001162Incorrect study design, discussion/editorial
Fortinsky 2014163Incorrect study design, literature review
Fromme 2004168No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Georges 2005a174No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Gibbins 2009175Incorrect study design, discussion/editorial
Gilbertsonwhite 2011176Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Gilman 2009177Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Glare 2008179Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Goebel 2009182Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Gonzales 2011184Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Goodman 2010185Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Greer 2013188Incorrect study design, literature review
Hendriks 2014204No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Hirakawa 2006210No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Hirakawa 2006a.214No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Hirakawa 2006b213No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Hirakawa 2006c.212No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Hirakawa 2006d.211No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Huang 2014225Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Hussain 2014232Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Janssen 2008240Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Kehl 2013255Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Klinkenberg 2003263No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Kompanje 2005264Incorrect study design, case report
Kripp 2014266Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Kutner 2001269Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Kutner 2007270Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Leak 2013277No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Lee 2014a281Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Levenson 2000284Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Li 2008285Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Lichter 1990286No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Lindleydavis 1991291Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Lindqvist 2008293Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Liu 2013294Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Lutz 2001301No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Mastersoncreber 2013309Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Mazzocato 2010312No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Mccarthy 2000313No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Mercadante 2000317Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Morita 1998328No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Morita 2003330No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Moyer 2011331Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Munizterrera 2013332Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Murphy 2010333Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Murtagh 2010334Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Nordgren 2003351No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Olajide 2007358,358Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Ostgathe 2008361Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Pace 2009363No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Peppin 2003366Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Pinzon 2013370No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Potter 2013373Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Price 2013b374Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Radbruch 2008379Incorrect study design, Guideline
Rashid i2011384No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Richards 2011390Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Ridley 2013391Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Roberts 1993394No relevant outcomes on management of uncertainty, or recognising dying.
Saini 2006400Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Salpeter 2012a402Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Seah 2005407No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Skaug 2007415Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Solano 2006418Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Solano 2006418Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Spoozak 2013419No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Suh 2013425Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Sullivan 2008424No relevant outcomes on management of uncertainty, or recognising dying.
Trueman 2011434Incorrect study design, Discussion/editorial
Tsai 2006435No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Vandervoort 2013446No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Veerbeek 2007447No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Ventafridda 1990a448No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Vitacca 2012452No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence
Vongunten 2005453Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Vongunten 2005453Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Walbert 2014459Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Yamanaka 2011477Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Yanneo 2009478Incorrect study design, non-systematic review
Yong 2009481Incorrect population, not last days of life.
Zambroski 2005484No relevant diagnostic or prognostic data: symptom prevalence

L.2. Communications

Table 94Studies excluded from the clinical review of Communications

ReferenceReason for exclusion
Abarshi 20115Topic does not match protocol (discussion of prognosis before last weeks of life)
Abarshi 20114Topic does not match protocol (occurrence of communication)
Abdul-Razzak 20147Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Adamolekun 199811Indirect population (communication in a developing country)
Adelman 199414Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Anderson 201024Abstract only
Anderson 201326Topic does not match protocol (describing communication in end-of-life care conversations)
Apatira 200829Topic does not match protocol (balance of hope and truth)
Azoulay 200933Topic does not match protocol (conflicts in ITU)
Bachner 201436Full text unavailable
Bajwah 201341Population does not match protocol
Bakitas 200843Topic does not match protocol (quality of end of life care)
Bailey39Topic does not match protocol (opioid use)
Barry 200247Topic does not match protocol (barriers to preparedness for death)
Beckstrand 200849Topic does not match protocol (barriers and facilitators to end of life care)
Bekkema 201450Topic does not match protocol (barriers and facilitators to respecting autonomy)
Bern-Klug 200455Topic does not match protocol (quality of end of life care)
Biola 200756Topic does not match protocol (occurrence of communication)
Bradby 201361Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Broom 201465Full text unavailable
Bruera 200071Topic does not match protocol (perceived need for communication)
Butow 201478Abstract only
Cherlin 200593Topic does not match protocol (timing and content of discussion)
Clarke 2006100Topic does not match protocol (conversations at end of life)
Clayton 2005102Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Clayton 2005103Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Clover 2004107Topic does not match protocol (decision making techniques)
Conboy-Hill 1986110Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Considine 2010112Topic does not match protocol (managing dialectical tensions)
Crawford 2010116Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Csikai 2006117Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Curtis 2008126Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Curtis 2004122Topic does not match protocol (end-of-life planning)
Curtis 1999124Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Curtis 2000125Topic does not match protocol (end-of-life planning)
Curtis 1997123Topic does not match protocol (palliative care)
El-Sahwi 2012144Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Emanuel 2004146Topic does not match protocol (effects of communication)
Endacott 2013147Abstract only
Enguidanos 2014148Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Evans 2009150feelings about uncertainty in prognostic community
Evans 2014151Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Evans 2012152Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Exline 2012153Topic does not match protocol (communication within families)
Friedrichsen 2000166Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Gadoud 2013170Abstract only
Granek 2013186Topic does not match protocol (end-of-life planning)
Gutierrez 2012192Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Hack 2010193Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Hagerty 2004194Topic does not match protocol (need for prognosis)
Hagerty 2005195Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Hjelmfors 2013216Abstract only
Hjelmfors 2013217Abstract only
Hjelmfors 2014219Topic does not match protocol (occurrence of communication)
Hjelmfors 2014218Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Hjorleifsdottir 2000220Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Hofmann 1997222Topic does not match protocol (care planning discussion)
Jackson 2012237Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Janssen 2011239Topic does not match protocol (care planning discussion)
Kai 1993247Topic does not match protocol (care planning discussion)
Kaplowitz 2002252Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Klindtworth 2012262Abstract only
Kozar 2014265Full text unavailable
Lawrence 2013275Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Lofmark 2005297Topic does not match protocol (occurrence of communication)
Marcus 2014307Abstract only
Nedjat-Haiem 2011346Abstract only
Norton 2013353Incorrect study design (descriptive not analytic)
Norton 2000352Topic does not match protocol (decision making)
Palmer 2012364Abstract only
Puntillo 2006377Incorrect study design (review)
Randhawa 2003383Topic does not match protocol (general palliative care)
Reinke 2008387Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Reinke 2010388Incorrect study design (observational study describing practice)
Rhondali 2014389Incorrect study design (observational study describing practice)
Roscoe 2013397Topic does not match protocol (planning end of life care)
Stallworthy 2014420Abstract only
Tang 2014428Topic does not match protocol (planning end of life care)
Tomlinson 2012433Topic does not match protocol (written information only)
Van Der Wal 2014444Abstract only
Voorhees 2009454Incorrect study design (observational study describing practice)
Vvedenskaya 2010455Abstract only
Vvedenskaya 2012456Abstract only
Vvedenskaya 2009457Abstract only
Wadensten 2007458Incorrect study design (observational study describing practice)
Walczak 2013461Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Walczak 2010460Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Waldrop 2012462Topic does not match protocol (communication before death imminent)
Weinandy 1997465Abstract only
Wenrich 2001466Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Wilkinson 2014469Population does not match protocol (death not imminent)
Witkamp 2010473Abstract only
Yin 2007480Topic does not match protocol (perceptions of communication)
You 2014482Topic does not match protocol (importance of communication)
Young 2006483Topic does not match protocol (discussion of use of narrative)

L.3. Shared Decision Making

Table 95Studies excluded from the clinical review of Shared decision making

ReferenceReason for exclusion
Adams 201412Indirect population: healthcare professionals in the USA
Bach 2009 35Indirect population: healthcare professionals in Canada
Grbich 2006 187Indirect population: healthcare professionals in Australia
Hilden 2006 206Indirect population: healthcare professionals in Finland
Hilden 2006 207Indirect population healthcare professionals in Finland
Jensen 2013 243Indirect population: healthcare professionals in Finland
Lee 2009 280Indirect population: not in the last days of life.
Macdonald 2011 302Indirect topic. The study focussed on an ethicist which does not apply to standard care in the UK. .
Oberle 2001 357Indirect population: healthcare professionals in Canada
Ostertag 2008 360Indirect population: healthcare professionals and family members in the USA
Radwany 2009 381Indirect population: healthcare professionals in the USA
Reed 2011386Non peer reviewed journal and poor quality, discussed with the Committee and excluded.
Ryan 2011 399Indirect population: healthcare professionals in the Republic of Ireland
Samara 2013 403Indirect population: healthcare professionals in Australia

L.4. Maintaining Hydration

Table 96Studies excluded from the clinical review of clinically assisted hydration

ReferenceReason for exclusion
Boland 201357Systematic review that did not match protocol- included studies that were not controlled
Nwosu 2014355Systematic review that did not match protocol- assessment of hydration status only
Fritzon 2013167Retrospective study investigating people receiving fluids in the last day and week of life.

L.5. Pharmacological Intervention

Table 97Studies excluded from the clinical reviews on anxiety, agitation, breathlessness, delirium and pain

StudyExclusion reason
Abernethy 20039Not guideline condition
Abernethy 201010Not guideline condition
Abernethy 20118Not guideline condition
Ahmedzai 199716Not guideline condition
Ahmedzai 200417Not guideline condition
Allard 199920Incorrect interventions
Andersen 198823Incorrect interventions
Anderson 200425Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Aurora 201232Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Bach 201334Not guideline condition
Bailey 201440Incorrect interventions
Bajwah 201342Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate. Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Bandieri 201244Not guideline condition. Incorrect interventions
Bausewein 201348Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Ben-Aharon 200851Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Ben-Aharon 201252Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Benitez-Rosario 200453Not guideline condition
Booth 200460Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Breitbart 199663Not guideline condition
Brescia 198764Not guideline condition
Bruera 198572Not guideline condition
Bruera 199070Not guideline condition
Bruera 199274Not guideline condition
Bruera 199369Not guideline condition
Bruera 199367Not guideline condition
Bruera 200375Not guideline condition
Bush 201476Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Cadth 201479Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Campbell 201381Not review population
Candy 201283Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Candy 201284Not guideline condition
Chan 201389Not guideline condition
Charles 200891Not guideline condition
Chew 201194Not guideline condition
Clemens 2011104Not guideline condition
Clemens 2011105Not guideline condition. Incorrect study design
Coyne 2002114Not guideline condition
Cranston 2008115Systematic review: withdrawn from publication
Currow 2009119Not guideline condition
Dale 2011127Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Danoff 2013128Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Daud 2007130Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Dietz 2013134Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
Douglas 2009137Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
Dudgeon 2007139Not guideline condition
Eaton 1999142Not guideline condition
Flume 2002161Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Frank 1997165Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Gamborg 2013171Not guideline condition. Incorrect interventions
Ganzini 2007172Incorrect study design
Generali 2004173Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Girard 2010178Not guideline condition
Gomutbutra 2013183Not guideline condition
Grosset 2005190Not guideline condition
Hardy 1998197Not guideline condition. Not review population
Harlow 2011198Not guideline condition
Harris 2003201Not guideline condition
Harris 2014200Not guideline condition
Hinkka 2001208Inappropriate comparison
Hochgerner 2009221Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
Hui 2013229Not guideline condition
Hunt 1999230Not guideline condition
Husic 2011231Not guideline condition
Imanaka 2013233Not guideline condition
Israel 2010234Not guideline condition
Jackson 2004238Not guideline condition
Jennings 2001 241Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Jennings 2003242Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Johnson 2013245Not guideline condition
Kallet 2007248Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO.
  Systematic review: literature search not sufficiently rigorous.
  Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
Kamboj 2005250Not guideline condition
Kamboj 2014249Not guideline condition
Keeley 2009254Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Kehl 2004256Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Kestenbaum 2014258Systematic review: literature search not sufficiently rigorous. Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
King 2011259Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
King 2011260Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Kurita 2011268Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Lauretti 1999272Not guideline condition
Leblanc 2014278Not guideline condition
Lebon 2009279Systematic review: literature search not sufficiently rigorous. Systematic review: study designs inappropriate
Legge 2006282Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Lennernas 2010283Not guideline condition
Lorenz 2008299Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
Sayed 2014404Not guideline condition
Maltoni 2012304Palliative sedation
Marinangeli 2004308Not guideline condition
Mazzocato 1999311Not guideline condition
Mcnamara 2002315Not guideline condition
Mercadante 1998316Not guideline condition
Mercadante 2002 319Not guideline condition
Mercadante 2004320Not guideline condition
Mercadante 2007322Not guideline condition
Mercadante 2012318Not guideline condition
Mercadante 2013321Not guideline condition
Miller 2014323Not review population
Moore 1994325Not guideline condition
Morgan 1994326Incorrect study design
Morita 2005329Not guideline condition
Mystakidou 2004338Not guideline condition
Mystakidou 2005336Not guideline condition
Naing 2013339Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Naqvi 2009340Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Nava 2013343Not guideline condition
Navigante 2003344Not in English language
Nicholson 2007349Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Oxberry 2009362Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Parlow 2005365Not guideline condition
Peterson 1996368Not guideline condition
Philip 2006369Not guideline condition
Plonk 2005371Incorrect study design
Popiela 1989372Not guideline condition
Raffa 2012382Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Rauck 2009385Not guideline condition
Ripamonti 1999392Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Ripamonti 2000393Incorrect interventions
Rodrigues 2004395Not guideline condition
Rodriguez 2007396Not guideline condition
Salas 2012401Not guideline condition
Schultheis 2005405Incorrect study design
Sim 2014411Systematic review: literature search not sufficiently rigorous
Simon 2010413Not guideline condition
Simon 2012412Not English language
Sittl 2003414Not guideline condition
Smith 2002416Not guideline condition
Stiefel 2004422Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear. Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Thomas 2009430Not guideline condition
Tse 2012436Incorrect interventions
Twycross 1985440Not guideline condition
Uronis 2008443Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Uronis 2008442Not guideline condition. Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Viola 2008451Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Wang 2012464Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO. Systematic review: quality assessment is inadequate
Wiffen 2014467Not guideline condition
Williams 2011471Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Wootton 2004474Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Wyne 2011475Systematic review is not relevant to review question or unclear PICO
Xu 1997476Not guideline condition
Yates 2013479Systematic review: methods are not adequate or unclear
Zeppetella 2000485Not guideline condition
Zeppetella 2001486Not guideline condition
Zeppetella 2010487Not guideline condition
Zerzan 2010488Incorrect study design

L.5.1. Nausea and Vomiting

AuthorExclusion reason
Bruera 200066Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Clark 201398Cochrane review- protocol only.
Corli 1995113Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Currow – unpublished data120Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Darvil 2013129Systematic review, did not match our protocol. Found no studies of levomepromazine in the last days of life.
Davis 2002131Narrative review
Davis 2010Systematic review, different PICO question: not limited to the last days of life.
Dean 2001132Narrative review
Dietz 2013134Systematic review- did not match our population, included studies focused on chemotherapy/radiotherapy induced nausea.
Dorman 2010136Systematic review, did not match our protocol.
Eisenchlas 2005143Incorrect population, not in the last days of life. Open label prospective study design.
Feuer 1999158Systematic review, different PICO question: not limited to the last days of life. Included unpublished data but limited data presented and none relevant to this PICO.
Fowell 2004164Study design description only.
Glare 2004181Systematic review- Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Glare 2008179Narrative review
Glare 2011180Narrative review
Hardy 1998197Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Hardy 2002196Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Harris 2010199Narrative review
Heegaard 2014202Conference abstract- Systematic review, limited write up available.
Herndon 2002205Narrative review
Laugsand 2011271Systematic review, different PICO question: opioid-induced nausea only, not limited to the last days of life and included interventions not included in our protocol, such as reducing dose of opioid.
Laval 2000273Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Laval 2012274Incorrect population, not in the last days of life
Magee 2014303Conference abstract- Systematic review, limited write-up available.
Mangili 2005305Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
McLean 2013314Systematic review- did not match our population, included studies focused on post-operative nausea.
Mystakidou 1998335Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Mystakidou 2010337Incorrect population- patients receiving chemotherapy/radiotherapy.
O'Neill 1999356Opinion piece.
Perkins 2009367Systematic review, did not match our protocol. Found no studies of haloperidol in the last days of life.
Prommer 2012375Literature review. Found no controlled studies of haloperidol in the last days of life.
Prommer 2012376Literature review.
Tatum 2009429Systematic review- summarised another Cochrane whose protocol did not match.
Tuca 2009437Incorrect population, not in the last days of life.
Tygat 2009Systematic review, did not match our protocol. Found no studies of hyoscine butylbromide used for nausea in the last days of life.

L.5.2. Noisy Respiratory Secretions

Table 98Studies excluded from the clinical review of Noisy respiratory secretions

StudyExclusion reason
Ahamed 201115Not the protocol condition: breathlessness rather than respiratory secretion
Bailey 201440Intervention does not match the protocol - staff training
Campbell 201382Comparison does not match the protocol - people with death rattle compared with people without death rattle
Chapman 201190Narrative review
Clark 200999Narrative review
Clary 2009101Background (general pharmacological management at the end of life)
Furst 2012169Background (general pharmacological management at the end of life)
Hipp 2009209Narrative review
Hirsch 2013215Qualitative (focus group) study
Kintzel 2009261Systematic review without quality assessment
Lindqvist 2013292Background (Delphi consensus on drugs needed for dying people)
Lokker 2014298Systematic review (cross-checked for references)
Lundquist 2011300Related to communication about dying
Manthous 2013306Commentary
Nunn 2014354Background (symptom management)
Radbruch 2012378Background (pharmaceutical management of dying people)
Sheehan 2011409Prognostic study for noisy respiratory secretions (factors predictive or protective)
Shimizu 2014410Survey study
Smucker 2010417Commentary (related to long term care)
Twomey 2013438Narrative review

L.6. Anticipatory Prescribing

Table 99Studies excluded from the clinical review of Anticipatory prescribing

ReferenceReason for exclusion
Amass 2005 22Opinion piece
Anon 20112Opinion piece
Anon 20081Opinion piece
Anquinet 201527Indirect topic of questioning: related to terminal sedation in home settings
Bailey 200538Indirect intervention where anticipatory prescribing in a hospital setting was 1 component of a multiprofessional intervention
Butler 2013 77Narrative review
Finucane 2014160Descriptive date indirect to context of access.
Griggs 2010189Indirect topic of questioning: related to nursing staffs beliefs of a ‘good death’
Jack 2013235Indirect topic of questioning: evaluation of hospice at home service
Lawton 2012 276Non controlled intervention.
Oliver 2010 359Indirect topic of questioning: comfort care packs not consisting of pharmacological interventions in the terminally ill
Radly 1998380Opinion piece
Scott-Ation 2009 406Not qualitative research
Stone 2013423Indirect context.
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