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Mater Research -UQ
- An open label pilot study of medicinal cannabis to relieve
symptom burden in patients with cancer
- Using pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics data to
- ptimise cannabinoid dosing in palliative care setting
- A qualitative study of cancer patients’ perceptions and
attitudes toward use of medicinal cannabinoids in palliative care
Rebecca E. Olson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, UQ
Hardy, J., Good, P., Lintzeris, N., Martin, J., Yates, P., Chye, R., Haywood, A., & Olson, R. NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund, ‘Medicinal cannabinoids to relieve symptom burden in the palliative care of patients with advanced cancer,’ 2018, $1,363,040. Hardy, J., Good, P., & Olson, R. Mater Clinical Research Seeding Grant, ‘A qualitative study of cancer patients’ perceptions and attitudes toward use of medicinal cannabinoids in palliative care,’ 2017-2018, $19,496.
Qualitative sub-study to RCT, using medicinal cannabinoids in palliative care
- Examines social and culturally relative
perceptions of medicinal cannabinoids, in particular stigma, as a possible barrier to effective use for symptom burden
Rebecca E. Olson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, UQ
Good, P., Hardy, J., & Olson, R. Clinical Seeding Grant, Mater Clinical Research Seeding Grant. ‘Talking about death: A mixed methods study into palliative care communication,’ $19,320.
‘Talking about death’: Qualitative study of how medical
professionals balance protocols on open communication about EoL with family/cultural preferences for indirect communication.
- In interactions with other clinicians, in multidisciplinary
team meetings, synonyms are often used
- In interactions with patients and families, doctors perform
‘culturally and emotionally reflexive labour’ to decipher the preferred terminology
CRICOS code 00025B
Primary Palliative Care research 2019
CRICOS code 00025B CRICOS code 00025B
RCT of structured screening for potential deaths within months vs unguided intuition
- structured screening no better than intuition
- but doing anything to identify patients is far more effective than doing nothing
Palliat Med 2018 Feb;32(2):384-394.
Case controlled study identifying factors predicting death in general practice populations (RACGP funded)
- determined independent predictors to facilitate online searching for potential patients at
risk of dying
- also generated a nomogram that calculates a percentage risk of dying several months
- ut
- needs formal testing
A Woolfield (Hons student) – paper under review
Identifying people at risk of dying in primary care
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CRICOS code 00025B CRICOS code 00025B
GP end of life minimum dataset Development and piloting of an end of life minimum dataset GP self reporting of practice and challenges for patients reported dead in the 6 months before death Data collection through sentinel practices.
Johnson, Mitchell, Deckx, Chua - current
Systematic review of GP performance in end of life care (five papers reporting 248 studies 2000-17)
National and international research group – PC4 support
Determining GP practice at end of life (HCF RACGP grant)
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