Crisis pack prescribing in terminal haemorrhage: a national survey of specialist palliative medicine physicians.

Objectives: To establish practice among senior palliative medicine physicians regarding anticipatory prescribing to manage a terminal haemorrhage.To generate a guideline informed by data collected.

Methods: An electronic questionnaire was sent to palliative medicine consultants and specialist registrars in Ireland.

Prophylactic antibiotics and corticosteroid prescribing in palliative medicine: retrospective study.

Objectives: To investigate whether patients under the care of the community specialist palliative care team receiving steroids are at increased risk of infection.To identify other risk factors that predispose community palliative care patients to infection.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of all patients referred to a community specialist palliative care service.