Alice M Firth

Cicely Saunders International — United Kingdom

Medicine · Health Sciences

10h-index764citations26works2.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues(24), Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes(13), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units(4), Frailty in Older Adults(3), Chronic Disease Management Strategies(3)

Publications26 total

Erratum to “Priorities for ‘out-of-hours’ home-based palliative care for professionals, patients, and family caregivers: A qualitative interview study” [Int. J. Nurs. Stud. 171 (2025) 105193]
International Journal of Nursing Studies·2025Open Access
Priorities for ‘out-of-hours’ home-based palliative care for professionals, patients, and family caregivers: A qualitative interview study
International Journal of Nursing Studies·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
What are the Priorities for Optimal Home-Based Palliative Care in the ‘Out-Of Hours’ Period for Healthcare Professionals, Patients, and Family Caregivers: A Qualitative Interview Study
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Community out-of-hours palliative care – ‘It’s a patchwork of services’: A qualitative study exploring care provision
Palliative Medicine·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
O-18 Exploring patients’ and families’ experience of four different models of out-of-hours community palliative care
2024Open Access
Understanding patient and family utilisation of community-based palliative care services out-of-hours: Additional analysis of systematic review evidence using narrative synthesis
PLoS ONE·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
62 The importance of relational care outside normal working hours: experiences of patients and family carers, and healthcare professionals
2024
A casemix classification for those receiving specialist palliative care during their last year of life across England: the C-CHANGE research programme
Programme Grants for Applied Research·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
P-236 Exploring the experience of healthcare practitioners providing community palliative care out-of-hours
Poster presentations·2023Open Access
46 Understanding patient and family utilisation of community-based palliative care services out-of-hours: secondary analysis of a systematic review
Poster presentations·2023Open Access
How is community based ‘out-of-hours’ care provided to patients with advanced illness near the end of life: A systematic review of care provision
Palliative Medicine·2023· 19 citedOpen Access
33  ‘A post code lottery’: experiences of healthcare professionals providing palliative care out-of-hours across the UK
2023Open Access
35  ‘Plugging the gaps’: healthcare professionals’ responses to challenges in providing palliative care out-of-hours in the community
2023Open Access
The most important components of out-of-hours community care for patients at the end of life: A Delphi study of healthcare professionals’ and patient and family carers’ perspectives
Palliative Medicine·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
54 Patient and public involvement in a delphi study to determine the most important components of community palliative care outside normal working hours (‘out-of-hours’)
2022
Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study
Palliative Medicine·2021· 27 citedOpen Access
8 Developing a casemix classification for specialist palliative care: a multi-centre cohort study to develop a patient-specific prediction model for the cost of specialist palliative care using classification and regression tree analysis
Oral Presentations·2021Open Access
Establishing key criteria to define and compare models of specialist palliative care: A mixed-methods study using qualitative interviews and Delphi survey
Palliative Medicine·2019· 39 citedOpen Access
A brief, patient- and proxy-reported outcome measure in advanced illness: Validity, reliability and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS)
Palliative Medicine·2019· 405 citedOpen Access
Patients’ views on care and their association with outcomes in palliative care
Palliative Medicine·2019· 5 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Fliss EM Murtagh(25), Catherine Evans(16), Joanna Goodrich(14), Richard Harding(13), Inez Gaczkowska(10), Irene J Higginson(9), Ping Guo(8), Cathryn Pinto(5), Joanna M. Davies(4), Suzanne O’Brien(4), Mendwas Dzingina(4), Sophie Pask(4), Christina Ramsenthaler(3), E. Iris Groeneveld(3), Claudia Bausewein(3), Beth Edwards(3), Abdel Douiri(3), Clare Ellis‐Smith(2), Lesley Anne Henson(2), Barbara A Daveson(2)