An exploratory study of palliative care in bone marrow transplant patients.

Quality of life - as opposed to quantity of life - raises important issues for all concerned. The legal and moral issues surrounding death, and our new abilities to delay it, are discussed frequently in the press and in professional journals. It was therefore felt important within an acute bone marrow transplant unit to identify the factors which would be considered important in palliative care for post bone marrow transplant patients, with specific reference to quality of life.