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Scott A Murray
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 248
Citations - 12624
Scott A Murray is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Health care. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 243 publications receiving 11110 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott A Murray include University Medical Center Groningen.
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Illness trajectories and palliative care
TL;DR: Primary data relating to illness trajectories from previous studies investigating the palliative care needs of people with advanced lung cancer and heart failure are re-examined and key clinical implications are drawn.
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Dying of lung cancer or cardiac failure: prospective qualitative interview study of patients and their carers in the community
TL;DR: End of life care for patients with advanced cardiac failure and other non-malignant diseases should be proactive and designed to meet their specific needs.
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Palliative care in heart failure: a position statement from the palliative care workshop of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology
Tiny Jaarsma,James M. Beattie,Mary Ryder,Frans H. Rutten,Theresa McDonagh,Paul Mohacsi,Scott A Murray,Thomas Grodzicki,Ingrid Bergh,Marco Metra,Inger Ekman,Christiane E. Angermann,Marcia Leventhal,Antonis A. Pitsis,Stefan Anker,Antonello Gavazzi,Piotr Ponikowski,Kenneth Dickstein,Etienne Delacretaz,Lynda Blue,Florian Strasser,John J.V. McMurray +21 more
TL;DR: Recommendations are described in the area of delivery of quality care to patients and families, education, treatment coordination, research and policy, and promoting the development of heart failure‐orientated palliative care services across Europe.
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Exploring the spiritual needs of people dying of lung cancer or heart failure: a prospective qualitative interview study of patients and their carers
TL;DR: Whether patients with life-threatening illnesses and their informal carers consider they experience significant spiritual needs, in the context of their overall needs, how spiritual concerns might vary by illness group and over the course of the illness, and how patients and their carers think they might be supported in addressing spiritual issues is explored.
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Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study.
Hilary Pinnock,Marilyn Kendall,Scott A Murray,Allison Worth,Pamela Levack,Michael E. Porter,William MacNee,Aziz Sheikh +7 more
TL;DR: Overall, patients told a “chaos narrative” of their illness that was indistinguishable from their life story, with no clear beginning and an unanticipated end described in terms comparable with attitudes to death in a normal elderly population.