Brian Le

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..

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 ..

Scope of Practice, Role Legitimacy, and Role Potential for Cancer Care Coordinators

Stacey Panozzo, Anna Collins, Sue-Anne McLachlan, Rosalind Lau, Brian Le, Mary Duffy, Jennifer A Philip

Journal article  |  2019  |  Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing

Patterns of end-of-life hospital care for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: exploring the landscape

Jennifer Philip, Anna Collins, David Ritchie, Brian Le, Jeremy Millar, Sue-Anne Mclachlan, Meinir Krishnasamy, Peter Hudson, Vijaya Sundararajan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Leukemia & Lymphoma

Rapid change, treatment responsiveness, and prognostication difficulties present challenges for palliative care integration for he..

The Ethics of Prioritizing Access to Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study

Jennifer Philip, Bethany Russell, Anna Collins, Caroline Brand, Brian Le, Peter Hudson, Vijaya Sundararajan

Journal article  |  2019  |  American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®

Multicomponent non-pharmacological intervention to prevent delirium for hospitalised people with advanced cancer: study protocol for a phase II cluster randomised controlled trial

Annmarie Hosie, Jane Phillips, Lawrence Lam, Slavica Kochovska, Beverly Noble, Meg Brassil, Susan E Kurrle, Anne Cumming, Gideon A Caplan, Richard Chye, Brian Le, E Wesley Ely, Peter G Lawlor, Shirley H Bush, Jan Maree Davis, Melanie Lovell, Linda Brown, Belinda Fazekas, Seong Leang Cheah, Layla Edwards, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMJ Open

The trajectory of patients who die from metastatic prostate cancer: a population-based study

Anna Collins, Vijaya Sundararajan, Jeremy Millar, Jodie Burchell, Brian Le, Mei Krishnasamy, Sue-Anne McLachlan, Peter Hudson, Linda Mileshkin, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2019  |  BJU International

Facilitating the choice of dying at home or in residential care with the implementation of a palliative care rapid response team in a cancer centre and general hospital

Brian H Le, Celia Marston, Christopher Kerley, Peter Eastman

Journal article  |  2019  |  Palliative Medicine

Oral dexamethasone in the management of cancer-related pain: A feasibility study.

Peter Eastman, David C Currow, Belinda Fazekas, Linda Brown, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2019  |  Palliative Medicine

Symptom burden in malignant and non-malignant disease on admission to a palliative care unit.

David See, Brian Le, Alexandra Gorelik, Peter Eastman

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

BACKGROUND: There is increasing recognition that patients with non-malignant diseases have comparable physical and psychosocial sy..

Pre-emptive prescription of medications for the management of potential, catastrophic events in patients with a terminal illness: A survey of palliative medicine doctors

Naomi T Katz, Bronwyn H Sacks, Brian H Le, Jenny L Hynson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Palliative Medicine

Novel application of discrete choice experiment methodology to understand how clinicians around the world triage palliative care needs: A research protocol

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

Journal article  |  2019  |  Palliative and Supportive Care

Integrated respiratory and palliative care leads to high levels of satisfaction: a survey of patients and carers

Natasha Smallwood, Thomas Moran, Michelle Thompson, Peter Eastman, Brian Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Palliative Care

Understanding transdermal buprenorphine and a practical guide to its use for chronic cancer and non-cancer pain management.

Tony O'Brien, Jin Seok Ahn, Richard Chye, Brian Le, Henry Lu, Gabriel Olarte, Mariana Palladini, Amar Salti, Yu-Yun Shao, Hayati Yaakup, Kristal Cielo Buemio, Consuelo Gutierrez Colin, Yacine Hadjiat

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Opioid Management

Transdermal buprenorphine (TDB) has demonstrated effectiveness in treating a range of chronic pain conditions, including cancer pa..

A randomised phase II trial to examine feasibility of standardised, early palliative (STEP) care for patients with advanced cancer and their families [ACTRN12617000534381]: a research protocol.

Jennifer Philip, Anna Collins, Brian Le, Vijaya Sundararajan, Caroline Brand, Susan Hanson, Jon Emery, Peter Hudson, Linda Mileshkin, Soula Ganiatsas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Pilot and Feasibility Studies

Background: Current international consensus is that 'early' referral to palliative care services improves cancer patient and famil..

Individualized breathlessness interventions may improve outcomes in patients with advanced COPD

Mary YY Qian, John Politis, Michelle Thompson, Darren Wong, Brian Le, Louis Irving, Natasha Smallwood

Journal article  |  2018  |  Respirology

Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care: Stage Two of the Development of a Palliative Care Triage Tool

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

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

PEARL: A randomised phase 3 trial of early referral to palliative care (PC) for patients with advanced thoracic malignancies

Linda R Mileshkin, Jaclyn Yoong, Anna K Nowak, Jennifer Philip, Brian H Lee, Meera Agar, Jane Phillips, Stephen Goodall, Penelope Schofield, Anna Ugalde, David Ball, David Currow, Ian Stubbin, Jennifer S Temel, Katherine Clark, Paula K Lorgelly, Chris Brown, Annette Tognela, Hannora Jurkovic, Antony Mersiades, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Building clinical trial capability in nascent clinical groups: Strategies and lessons learned

Jennifer Philip, Mark Boughey, Jennifer Weil, Maria Coperchini, Juli Moran, Evelien Rosens, Anne Woollett, Brian Le

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Voluntary assisted dying: time to consider the details.

Brian H Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2018  |  Medical Journal of Australia

Transition Points for the Routine Integration of Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Anna Collins, Vijaya Sundararajan, Jodie Burchell, Jeremy Millar, Sue-Anne McLachlan, Meinir Krishnasamy, Brian H Le, Linda Mileshkin, Peter Hudson, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Responding to urgency of need: Initial qualitative stage in the development of a triage tool for use in palliative care services

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

Journal article  |  2018  |  Palliative Medicine

Doctors' Attitudes to Palliation and Palliative Care in Patients With Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Natasha Smallwood, Nicole Gaffney, Alexandra Gorelik, Louis Irving, Brian Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Breathlessness and palliative oxygen therapy in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Natasha Smallwood, Nicole Gaffney, Alexandra Gorelik, Louis Irving, Brian Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2018  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Integrated respiratory and palliative care may improve outcomes in advanced lung disease

Natasha Smallwood, Michelle Thompson, Matthew Warrender-Sparkes, Peter Eastman, Brian Le, Louis Irving, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2018  |  ERJ Open Research

The unaddressed palliative care needs of patients with advanced, nonmalignant, lung disease highlight the urgent requirement for n..

Predictable adverse events such as respiratory depression highlight the need for caution when prescribing morphine for refractory breathlessness

Natasha Smallwood, John Politis, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2017  |  European Respiratory Journal

Junior doctors' attitudes to opioids for refractory breathlessness in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Natasha Smallwood, Nicole Gaffney, Alexandra Gorelik, Louis Irving, Brian Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2017  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Prescription opioid use in advanced COPD: benefits, perils and controversies

Natasha Smallwood, John Politis, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2017  |  European Respiratory Journal

Palliative care and best supportive care should not be an after "transition' missed opportunity

Jennifer Dawson, Brian H Le

Journal article  |  2017  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Respiratory depression secondary to morphine use in a patient with COPD and refractory breathlessness

John Politis, Brian Le, Natasha Smallwood

Journal article  |  2017  |  European Respiratory Journal

Transdermal buprenorphine and fentanyl patches in cancer pain: a network systematic review

Jin Seok Ahn, Johnson Lin, Setsuro Ogawa, Chen Yuan, Tony O'Brien, Brian HC Le, Andrea M Bothwell, Hanlim Moon, Yacine Hadjiat, Abhijith Ganapathi

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Pain Research

Palliative care in general practice: GP integration in caring for patients with advanced cancer

Brian Le, Peter Eastman, Sita Vij, Fiona McCormack, Cuong Duong, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Family Physician

Efficacy of Oral Risperidone, Haloperidol, or Placebo for Symptoms of Delirium Among Patients in Palliative Care A Randomized Clinical Trial

Meera R Agar, Peter G Lawlor, Stephen Quinn, Brian Draper, Gideon A Caplan, Debra Rowett, Christine Sanderson, Janet Hardy, Brian Le, Simon Eckermann, Nicola McCaffrey, Linda Devilee, Belinda Fazekas, Mark Hill, David C Currow

Journal article  |  2017  |  JAMA Internal Medicine

Establishing a nurse practitioner model to enhance continuity between palliative care settings

Margaret O'Connor, Stacey Palfreyman, Brian Le, Rosalind Lau

Journal article  |  2016  |  International Journal of Palliative Nursing

Benefits and resource implications of family meetings for hospitalized palliative care patients: research protocol

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

Journal article  |  2015  |  BMC Palliative Care

Corticosteroids as co-analgesics with opioids for cancer pain: a survey of Australian and New Zealand palliative care clinicians

P Eastman, B Le

Journal article  |  2015  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Management of refractory breathlessness with morphine in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

N Smallwood, B Le, D Currow, L Irving, J Philip

Journal article  |  2015  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Uptake of clinical trials in a palliative care setting: A retrospective cohort study

Peter Eastman, Brian Le, Gillian McCarthy, James Watt, Mark Rosenthal

Journal article  |  2015  |  Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology

Underutilisation of Victorian in-patient palliative care consultation services? Results of an exploratory study

Peter Eastman, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Health Review

The hidden issues of anticipatory medications in community palliative care

Margaret O'Connor, Susan Gatens, Brian H Le

Journal article  |  2014  |  Medical Journal of Australia

What Does State-Level Inpatient Palliative Care Data Tell Us about Service Provision?

Peter Eastman, Gregory W Dalton, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Polypharmacy in palliative care: optimising medications is an ongoing challenge

S Charlton, BHC Le

Journal article  |  2014  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Orthostatic hypotension secondary to CRMP-5 paraneoplastic autonomic neuropathy

Andrew J Neal, Mary Y Qian, Alexandra S Clinch, Brian H Le

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Acceptability of Early Integration of Palliative Care in Patients with Incurable Lung Cancer

Brian HC Le, Linda Mileshkin, Katie Doan, Di Saward, Odette Spruyt, Jaclyn Yoong, Dishan Gunawardana, Matthew Conron, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Integrating New Evidence About an Old Drug: Authors' Reply to Franco et al. and Bell et al.

Odette Spruyt, Brian H Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Palliative care and colorectal cancer

P Cotton, P Eastman, BH Le

Journal article  |  2014  |  Cancer Forum

Integrating New Evidence About an Old Drug: Growing Pains as Palliative Medicine Matures

Odette Spruyt, Brian Le, Jennifer Philip

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

The Vulnerable Elders Survey and its prognostic relationship to survival in an older community-based palliative population.

Michael David Chapman, Brian HC Le, Alexandra Gorelik

Journal article  |  2013  |  BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

OBJECTIVES: Frailty denotes a vulnerability to poor outcomes and is a common risk factor for mortality in older persons. The Vulne..

Inpatient palliative care consultation for patients with glioblastoma in a tertiary hospital

E Lin, MA Rosenthal, P Eastman, BH Le

Journal article  |  2013  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Who, why and when: stroke care unit patients seen by a palliative care service within a large metropolitan teaching hospital.

Peter Eastman, Gillian McCarthy, Caroline A Brand, Louise Weir, Alexandra Gorelik, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2013  |  BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

OBJECTIVES: To investigate factors associated with referral of patients from an Australian stroke care unit (SCU) to an inpatient ..

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and palliative care: A report of three cases and review of the literature

Penelope Janet Helen Cotton, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2013  |  Palliative Medicine

End-of-life decisions

Joanna Mitropoulos, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2013  |  Australian Family Physician

Palliative Care After Attempted Suicide in the Absence of Premorbid Terminal Disease: A Case Series and Review of the Literature

Peter Eastman, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

The establishment and initial outcomes of a palliative care bereavement service

Peter Eastman, Brian Le, Amy Pharaoh

Journal article  |  2012  |  Palliative Medicine

Neuro-oncology and palliative care: a challenging interface

Esther Lin, Mark A Rosenthal, Brian H Le, Peter Eastman

Journal article  |  2012  |  Neuro-Oncology

Prognostic factors in the elderly: a profile and outcomes study of a community palliative care service

M Chapman, B Le, A Gorelik, J Schwarz

Journal article  |  2012  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Redefining the Specialist Palliative Approach: Clinical Trials, a First Year Experience

Brian H Le, Mark A Rosenthal

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Competence and capacity at the end of life: uneasy paternalism IN REPLY

Brian H Le, Michael D Chapman

Journal article  |  2012  |  Medical Journal of Australia

Competence and capacity at the end of life: uneasy paternalism When a patient's wishes conflict with "best practice"

Brian H Le, Michael D Chapman

Journal article  |  2011  |  Medical Journal of Australia

Withdrawal of mechanical ventilation in the home: A case report and review of the literature

Alexandra Clinch, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2011  |  Palliative Medicine

Use of oral ketamine in a patient with systemic mastocytosis

J Yoong, B Le

Journal article  |  2010  |  Internal Medicine Journal

The Development and Evaluation of an Inpatient Palliative Care Admission Triage Tool

Jennifer AM Philip, Brian Huong Canh Le, Dawn Whittall, Jackie Kearney

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Care of the Dying in Australia's Busiest Hospital: Benefits of Palliative Care Consultation and Methods To Enhance Access

Brian Huong Canh Le, James Nicholas Watt

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Phase II study of paclitaxel and vinorelbine (Pacl-Vin) in hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer: double tubulin targeting

S Sewak, S Kosmider, V Ganju, A Woollett, EG Yeow, B Le, M Henry, MA Debrincat, R Bell

Journal article  |  2010  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

Use of the palliative prognostic index in a palliative care consultation service in Melbourne, Australia.

Jaclyn Yoong, Nicola Atkin, Brian Le

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Palliative care in stroke.

Brian HC Le, Maria Pisasale, James Watt

Journal article  |  2008  |  Palliative Medicine

Audit of deaths and palliative care referrals in a large Australian teaching hospital

BHC Le, MA Ashby

Journal article  |  2007  |  Journal of Palliative Medicine

Late recurrence of osteosarcoma

BHC Le, MR Buchanan, R de Boer

Journal article  |  2007  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Acute arterial ischaemia secondary to multiple tumour emboli

BHC Le, DS Williams, P Gibbs

Journal article  |  2006  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Acute arterial ischaemia secondary to multiple tumour emboli

BH Le, DS Williams, P Gibbs

Journal article  |  2006  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Prostate cancer presenting with fever and rigors

BHC Le, MA Rosenthal

Journal article  |  2005  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Small cell lung cancer with tracheal obstruction

BHC Le, MA Rosenthal

Journal article  |  2005  |  Internal Medicine Journal

Hemolysis and thrombocytopenia following oxaliplatin administration

B LE, S Juneja, P GIBBS

Journal article  |  2005  |  Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology