Brian Le

Do family meetings for hospitalised palliative care patients improve outcomes and reduce health care costs? A cluster randomised trial.

Peter Hudson, Afaf Girgis, Kristina Thomas, Jennifer Philip, David C Currow, Geoffrey Mitchell, Deborah Parker, Danny Liew, Caroline Brand, Brian Le, Juli Moran

Journal article  |  2020  |  Palliative Medicine

BACKGROUND: Family meetings facilitate the exploration of issues and goals of care however, there has been minimal research to det..

Managing Severe Chronic Breathlessness in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Is Challenging for General Practitioners

John Politis, Peter Eastman, Brian Le, John Furler, Louis Irving, Natasha Smallwood

Journal article  |  2020  |  American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®

CONTEXT: Patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can develop increasing breathlessness, which can pers..

Gaps in Opioid Prescription for Severe Breathlessness in Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Interstitial Lung Disease

Xinye Chen, Darran Treanor, Brian Le, Natasha Smallwood

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Challenges in advance care planning: the interface between explicit instructional directives and palliative care

Peter Eastman, Danielle Ko, Brian H Le

Journal article  |  2020  |  Medical Journal of Australia

Who is asking about medicinal cannabis in palliative care?

Stacey Panozzo, Brian Le, Anna Collins, Jennifer Weil, Jan Whyte, Michael Barton, Maria Coperchini, Meri Rametta, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2020  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Following legislative changes in the availability and prescribing of medicinal cannabis in Australia, we sought to understand pros..

Triaging the Terminally Ill-Development of the Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care (RUN-PC) Triage Tool

Bethany Russell, Sara Vogrin, Jennifer Philip, Nicole Hennessy-Anderson, Anna Collins, Jodie Burchell, Brian Le, Caroline Brand, Peter Hudson, Vijaya Sundararajan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

CONTEXT: Evidence-based resource allocation is receiving increasing attention as we strive for equity, transparency, and cost-effe..

Australian Palliative Physicians' Perceptions of Clinician Performed Ultrasound Scanning

Jennifer Dawson, Brian Le, Peter Eastman

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Management of People With a Fontan Circulation: a Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Position Statement

Dominica Zentner, David S Celermajer, Thomas Gentles, Yves d'Udekem, Julian Ayer, Gillian M Blue, Cameron Bridgman, Luke Burchill, Michael Cheung, Rachael Cordina, Evelyn Culnane, Andrew Davis, Karin du Plessis, Karen Eagleson, Kirsten Finucane, Belinda Frank, Sebastian Greenway, Leeanne Grigg, Winita Hardikar, Tim Hornung, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Heart Lung and Circulation

The Fontan circulation describes the circulatory state resulting from an operation in congenital heart disease where systemic veno..

Simulation training in non-cancer palliative care for healthcare workers: A systematic review of controlled studies

J Tropea, R Bicknell, D Nestel, CA Brand, CE Johnson, SK Paul, BH Le, WK Lim

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning

BackgroundThe need for healthcare workers (HCWs) to have skills and knowledge in non-cancer palliative care has been recognised. S..

The deteriorating patient representative on a palliative care quality committee: Ethical and practical considerations

Peter Eastman, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2019  |  Palliative and Supportive Care

AbstractThis case study describes the involvement of a patient representative on a palliative care committee and outlines some of ..