Healthcare Professionals' Perspective on Supporting Patients and Family Caregivers in End-Of-Life Care Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study in Specialist Palliative Care.

Background: Healthcare professionals in specialist palliative care have a key role in conducting end-of-life care discussions with patients and their family caregivers. We aimed to identify key barriers and facilitators for healthcare professionals in specialist palliative care to support patients and their family caregivers in decision-making for patient end-of-life care.

Methods: Twenty-two healthcare professionals from different healthcare professions were recruited from a large regional specialist palliative care service in Ireland comprising 2 hospice sites.

How Do Patients and Caregivers in Advanced Illness Support One Another in Decision-Making for Patient Care? A Qualitative Interview Study of Patient and Caregiver Dyads in Specialist Palliative Care.

Background: Caregivers in palliative care are tasked with supporting the patient in decision-making about treatment and care. However, how patients and their caregivers in palliative care support one another in the decision-making process is not fully understood.

Aim: To decipher how patients and caregivers in specialist palliative care support one another in decision-making about patient treatment and care.

Normalizing fentanyl: interpreting the perceived 'risk' of correctional officer work.

Background: Scholarship on how fentanyl affects the complexities of correctional settings is limited in Canada, as scholars have focused on the prevalence of opioid use and overdose in prisons, as well as community treatment and access following release. Fentanyl constitutes a continuing challenge both in prisons and broader society.

Results: The current qualitative, interview-based empirical study examines how fentanyl is interpreted by correctional officers (COs, n = 99) across federal prisons in Canada, some of whom have worked in institutions with a high presence of fentanyl, while others have less exposure to the drug.

Impact of a clinical decision support system on identifying drug-related problems and making recommendations to providers during community pharmacist-led medication reviews in Ontario, Canada: A pilot study.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) to identify drug-related problems (DRPs) during community pharmacist medication reviews.

Design: Pilot 3-phase (group), open-label study.

Setting And Participants: Two community pharmacies in Sarnia, Ontario, with pharmacists providing medication reviews to patients.

Correctional Transgender Policy in Canada's Federal Prison System.

Since December 2017, Canada's federal correctional system provides prisoners the opportunity to be assigned to living units according to their self-identified gender. Still organized around sex, conceptually and spatially, prison policies and procedures surrounding transgender prisoners require navigation to adhere to the rights of all prisoners. Based on interviews conducted between October 2019 and October 2021 with 74 correctional officers (COs) from the Canadian federal prison system, we discuss how correctional officers view and operationalize Canada's transgender policy to understand its unintended consequences for both prisoners and prison staff.