• Mapping the scope of occupational therapy practice in palliative care: A European Association for Palliative Care crosssectional survey 

  Eva, Gail; Morgan, Deidre D (Sage Journals, 2018-04-24)

  Background: Occupational therapists play an integral role in the care of people with life-limiting illnesses. However, little is known about the scope of occupational therapy service provision in palliative care across ...

• Never say die: death euphemisms, misunderstandings and their implications for practice 

  Rawlings, Deb; Tieman, Jennifer; Sanderson, Christine Ruth; Parker, Deborah; Miller-Lewis, Lauren (MA Healthcare, 2017-07-29)

  BACKGROUND: A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on death and dying was conducted to open the dialogue around death and dying. In one activity, participants were asked to engage with language and to think of alternative ...

• Using telehealth to support end of life care in the community: a feasibility study 

  Tieman, Jennifer; Swetenham, K; Morgan, Deidre D; To, T H; Currow, David Christopher (BioMed Central, 2016-11-17)

  Background Telehealth is being used increasingly in providing care to patients in the community setting. Telehealth enhanced service delivery could offer new ways of managing load and care prioritisation for palliative ...

• Transitioning a home telehealth project into a sustainable, large-scale service: a qualitative study 

  Wade, Victoria; Taylor, Alan; Kidd, Michael Richard; Carati, Colin John (BioMed Central, 2016-05-16)

  Background This study was a component of the Flinders Telehealth in the Home project, which tested adding home telehealth to existing rehabilitation, palliative care and geriatric outreach services. Due to the known ...

• Prescription of opioids for breathlessness in end-stage COPD: a national population-based study 

  Ahmadi, Zainab; Bernelid, Eva; Currow, David Christopher; Ekstrom, Magnus (Dove Medical Press Limited., 2016-10-21)

  Background: Low-dose opioids can relieve breathlessness but may be underused in late-stage COPD due to fear of complications, contributing to poor symptom control. Objectives: We aimed to study the period prevalence and ...

• Designing Clinically Valuable Telehealth Resources: Processes to Develop a Community-Based Palliative Care Prototype 

  Tieman, Jennifer; Morgan, Deidre D; Swetenham, Kate; To, Timothy Hong Man; Currow, David Christopher (JMIR Publications, 2014-09-04)

  Background: Changing population demography and patterns of disease are increasing demands on the health system. Telehealth is seen as providing a mechanism to support community-based care, thus reducing pressure on hospital ...

• Building an Architectural Component Model for a Telehealth Service 

  Taylor, Alan; Morris, Greg; Tieman, Jennifer; Currow, David Christopher; Kidd, Michael; Carati, Colin (Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-09-16)

  Models of services, processes and technology are useful tools for conceptualizing complex systems such as healthcare. The application of a component architecture helps illustrate the processes and technologies that are ...

• Can Video Conferencing Be as Easy as Telephoning?-A Home Healthcare Case Study 

  Taylor, Alan; Morris, Greg; Tieman, Jennifer; Currow, David Christopher; Kidd, Michael; Carati, Colin (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-01-13)

  In comparison with almost universal adoption of telephony and mobile technologies in modern day healthcare, video conferencing has yet to become a ubiquitous clinical tool. Currently telehealth services are faced with a ...

• Health-related quality of life measured using the EQ-5D-5L: South Australian population norms. 

  McCaffrey, Nicola; Kaambwa, Billingsley; Currow, David Christopher; Ratcliffe, Julie (BioMed Central, 2016)

  Background Although a five level version of the widely-used EuroQol 5 dimensions (EQ-5D) instrument has been developed, population norms are not yet available for Australia to inform the future valuation of health in ...

• Family Caregivers Who Would Be Unwilling to Provide Care at the End of Life Again: Findings from the Health Survey for England Population Survey 

  Johnson, M; Allgar, V; Macleod, U; Jones, A; Oliver, S; Currow, David Christopher (Public Library of Science, 2016)

  Background Family caregivers provide significant care at the end of life. We aimed to describe caregiver characteristics, and of those unwilling to repeat this role under the same circumstances. Methods Observational ...

• Systematic review of the types of methods and approaches used to assess the effectiveness of healthcare information websites 

  Tieman, Jennifer; Bradley, Sandra L (CSIRO Publishing, 2013-09-05)

  The objective of this systematic review was to identify types of approaches and methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare information websites. Simple usage data may not be sufficient to assess if the ...

• Refining a Checklist for Reporting Patient Populations and Service Characteristics in Hospice and Palliative Care Research 

  Currow, David Christopher; Tieman, Jennifer; Greene, Aine; Zafar, S Yousuf; Wheeler, Jane L; Abernethy, Amy Pickar (Elsevier, 2012-03-21)

  Context and Objective Diagnoses and prognoses vary widely across sub-populations of people referred to specialist palliative care services; variations also exist in the way these services are configured. These variations ...

• Filters and hubs: shortening the distance to palliative care evidence 

  Tieman, Jennifer (CSIRO Publishing, 2012-01-16)

  Palliative care is an integral part of the care provided by GPs and other primary health care providers, and as Australia’s population ages and the palliative care needs of patients with end stage organ failure are recognised, ...

• Who provides care for people dying of cancer? A comparison of a rural and metropolitan cohort in a South Australian bereaved population study 

  Burns, Catherine Mary; Del Grande, Eleonora; Tieman, Jennifer; Abernethy, Amy Pickar; Currow, David Christopher (Wiley, 2015-02-17)

  Background: People in the rural and remote areas often have disparities in access to services and specific challenges when called upon to provide care. In order to plan and resource palliative care services, it is important ...

• Advance Care Planning for Adults With CKD: A Systematic Integrative Review 

  Luckett, T; Sellars, M; Tieman, Jennifer; Pollock, CA; Silvester, W; Butow, Phyllis N; Detering, KM; Brennan, Frank; Clayton, Josephine M (Elsevier, 2014-05)

  Background Recent clinical practice guidelines have highlighted the importance of advance care planning (ACP) for improving end-of-life care for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Study Design We conducted a systematic ...

• Supporting service change in palliative care: a framework approach 

  Tieman, Jennifer; Rawlings, Deb; Taylor, Janet; Adams, Amanda M; Mills, S; Vas, H; Banfield, M (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2014)

  Background Palliative care services are increasingly identifying areas for improvement, then trying to create appropriate changes in response. Nurses in particular are often expected to take leading roles in Quality ...

• Do patients and carers find separate palliative care clinic consultations acceptable? A pilot study. 

  Swetenham, Kate; Tieman, Jennifer; Currow, David Christopher (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2014)

  Patient and caregiver needs; is it important to separate them during the palliative care consultation clinic? – Findings from the pilot of an initial new client psychosocial assessment clinic

• Deathbed phenomena reported by patients in palliative care: clinical opportunities and responses 

  Devery, Kim Ellen; Rawlings, Deb; Tieman, Jennifer; Damarell, Raechel (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2015)

  Over many decades and across many cultures and disciplines, the scientific literature reports unusual and hard to explain phenomena at the end of life. In the palliative care literature these reports are often anecdotal ...

• Find Me the Evidence: Connecting the Practitioner With the Evidence on Bereavement Care 

  Tieman, Jennifer; Hayman, Sarah L; Hall, C (Taylor and Francis, 2015-01)

  This study reports on the development and application of a Bereavement Search Filter with a known level of retrieval performance to support access to the underlying knowledge base for bereavement care.

• Knowledge, knowledge management and knowledge networks 

  Tieman, Jennifer (Australian Library and Information Association, 2006-10)

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