Journal club feature

Jenkins V , Fallow®eld L , Saul J . Information needs of patients with cancer: results from a large study of cancer centres. Br J Cancer 2001; 5: 48–51.

McIllmurray M , Thomas C , Francis B , Morris S , Soothill K , Al-hamad A . The psychosocial needs of cancer patients: ®ndings from an observational study. Eur J Cancer Care 2001; 10: 261–269.

Fallow®eld L , Jenkins V . Effective communication skills are the key to good cancer care. Eur J Cancer 1999; 35: 1592–1597.

Fallow®eld L , Jenkins V . Ef®cacy of a cancer research UK communication skills training model for oncologists: a randomised controlled trial. L ancet 2002; 359: 650–656.

Jenkins V , Fallow®eld L . Can communication skills training alter physicians' beliefs and behaviours in clinics? J Clin Oncol 2002; 20: 765–769.

Fallow®eld L , Ratcliffe D , Jenkins V , Saul J . Psychiatric morbidity and its recognition by doctors in patients with cancer. Br J Cancer 2001; 84: 1011–1015.

Le Fevre P , Devereux J , Smith S , Lawrie SM , Cornbleet M . Screening for psychiatric illness in the palliative care inpatient setting: a comparison between the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the General Health Questionnaire– 12. Palliat M ed 1999; 12: 399–407.

Carney P , Eliassen M , Woolford G , Owen M , Badger L , Dietrich A . How physician communication influence the recognition of depression in primary care. J Fam Pract 1999; 48: 958–964.

Rogers A , Karslen S , Addington-Hall J . All the services were excellent. It is when the human element comes in that things go wrong: dissatisfaction with hospital care in the last year of life. J A dv Nurs 2000; 31: 768–773.

Clark R . A long walk home. Oxford: Radcliffe Press, 2002.

National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care . Occasional Paper Number 13. Feeling Better– psychosocial care in specialist palliative care. London.

National Council for Hospices and Specialists Palliative Care Services . Reaching out: specialist palliative care for adults with non-malignant disease. London, 1998.

National Council for Hospices and Specialist Palliative Care Services and Scottish Partnership Agency for Palliative and Cancer Care . Positive partnerships– palliative care for adults with severe mental health problems. London, 2000.

Wright E , Selby P , Gould A , Cull A . Detecting social problems in cancer care. Psychooncology 2001; 10: 242–250.

Zabora J , Brintzenhoefeszoc K , Curbow B , Hooker C , Piantadosi S . The prevalence of psychological distress by cancer sites. Psychooncology 2001; 10: 19–28.

Ciarmella A , Poli P . Assessment of depression among cancer patients: the role of pain, cancer type and treatment. Psychooncology 2001; 10: 156–165.

Kurtz M , Kurtz J , Stommel M , Given C , Given B . Predictors of depressive symptomatology of geriatric patients with lung cancer– a longitudina l analysis. Psychooncology 2002; 11: 12–22.

Mazzocato C , Stiefel F , de Jonge P , Levorato A , Ducret S , Huyse F . Comprehensive assessment of patients in palliative care: a descriptive study utilising the Intermed. J Pain Symptom M anage 2000; 19: 83–90.

de Jonge P , Huyse FJ , Stiefel F C , Slaets JP , Gans RO . Intermed– a clinical instrument for biopsychosocial assessment. Psychosomatics 2001; 42: 106–109.

Ly K , Chidgey J , Addington-H all J , Hotopf M . Depression in palliative care: a systematic review. Palliat M ed 2002; 16: 279–284.

StroÈ mogren A , Groenvald M , Pedersen L , Olsen A , Spile M , Sjogren P . Does the medical record cover the symptoms experienced by cancer patients receiving palliative care? A comparison of the record and patient self-rating. J Pain Symptom M anage 2001; 21: 189–196.

Tiernan E , Casey P , O'Boyle C , BirbecK G , Mangan M , O'Siorain L , Kearney M . Relations between desire for early death, depressive symptoms and antidepressants prescribing in terminally ill patients with cancer. J R Soc M ed 2002; 95: 386–390.

Lloyd-Williams M , Friedman T , Rudd N . The validation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale in terminally ill patients. J Pain Symptom M anage 2001; 22: 990–996.