Aims. This paper presents the results of a systematic review examining the practical
information needs of informal caregivers providing home‐based palliative and end‐of‐life …

AimTo appraise and synthesize empirical literature on implementation of evidence within
community nursing. To explore the use of implementation theory and identify the strategies …

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this review is to construct a detailed account of the role of the
district nurse (generalist registered nurse providing nursing care in primarily home settings) …

This paper reports on a grounded theory interview‐based study with 13 family members
aged 28–80 years caring for terminally ill people at home (with a life expectancy of 3 months …

The purpose of this study was to explore the hypothesis that women with breast cancer had
specific preferences about the degree of control they wanted over treatment decision …

Against the background of the popularity of the concept of 'patient collaboration'in care, this
paper describes, from the frame of reference of the patients, how they perceive being …

The importance of 'knowing the patient': community nurses' constructions of quality in
providing palliative care This paper reports findings from a study conducted in one …

This paper reports a study which examined the specific information needs and sources of
information for 105 women with breast cancer at two time points, the time of diagnosis and a …

Nurses can play a key role in patient education, including providing patients with useful and
approrate information Rather than focusing on the process of education or information giving …

Objective To compare traditional hospital follow-up with telephone follow-up by specialist
nurses after treatment for breast cancer. Design A two centre randomised equivalence trial …