{"id":264,"date":"2011-04-27T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=264"},"modified":"2011-04-27T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:01:05","slug":"the-future-of-palliative-care-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/04\/27\/the-future-of-palliative-care-research\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ on the future of palliative care research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It is a difficult topic to study and this conference was a research benchmark in a developing specialty. There is no laboratory test for suffering and you cannot see pain, loneliness, or anxiety on a CT scan. Research is difficult,\u2019 writes <em>BMJ<\/em> primary care editor Domhnall MacAulay, in his latest published blog.<\/p>\n<p>Domhnall attended the<a title=\"Link to COMPASS site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.compasscollaborative.com\/asmedinburgh2011_programme.html\" target=\"_blank\"> COMPASS Collaborative conference <\/a>and the official launch of <em>BMJ Supportive &amp; Palliative Care <\/em>in Edinburgh. He comments on the importance of the collaborative and the new journal, and looks at the challenges and opportunities for future research in supportive and palliative care.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to full blog article\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2011\/04\/19\/domhnall-macauley-palliative-care\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bmj%2Fblogs+%28Latest+BMJ+blogs%29&amp;q=w_bmj_podblog\" target=\"_blank\">Read the blog post in full here<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It is a difficult topic to study and this conference was a research benchmark in a developing specialty. There is no laboratory test for suffering and you cannot see pain, loneliness, or anxiety on a CT scan. Research is difficult,\u2019 writes BMJ primary care editor Domhnall MacAulay, in his latest published blog. Domhnall attended the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/04\/27\/the-future-of-palliative-care-research\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1749,1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launch","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}