Research

One setting, studied from many angles

22 peer-reviewed papers and a preprint since 2018, all on how home hospice and palliative care is delivered in Singapore. Each title links to the paper. The full record is on ORCID.

Hospice operations and service design

Work patterns and time allocation in multidisciplinary home hospice: a time-motion study

BMC Palliative Care · 2026 · First author
Quality improvement initiative to improve uptake of an alternative call management strategy for home-based hospice care

Palliative Medicine Reports · 2025
Utilisation of after-hours telephone support in a home-based hospice service

BMC Palliative Care · 2022
Impact of psychiatrist support in home-based hospice care: a qualitative case-series review

Progress in Palliative Care · 2021

Healthcare utilisation and cost

Comparing situational influences on differential healthcare utilization trajectories in patients on home palliative care: a qualitative study

Palliative and Supportive Care · 2024
Longitudinal patterns and predictors of healthcare utilization among cancer patients on home-based palliative care in Singapore: a group-based multi-trajectory analysis

BMC Medicine · 2022
Paediatric palliative care improves patient outcomes and reduces healthcare costs: evaluation of a home-based program

BMC Palliative Care · 2018

Terminal and compassionate discharge

Terminal discharge of the imminently dying from hospital to home: a realist evaluation

Palliative Medicine · 2026
Prescribing patterns of end-of-life medication for compassionate discharge: a retrospective observational cohort study

Journal of Palliative Care · 2026
Case presentation of two patients compassionately discharged, from hospital to home, who did not achieve their desired home death

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care · 2024
Real-world challenges when facilitating terminal discharge in Singapore

Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore · 2023

Paediatric and young-adult care

“I don't know whether I will be alive or not”: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of young adult males with Duchenne muscular dystrophy making sense of self and life

Disability and Health Journal · 2024
Integrating step-down care in community-based paediatric palliative services: a realist evaluation

medRxiv · 2024 · Preprint · First author
‘I really feel like I am ageing early’: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of young adults with life-limiting conditions

BMJ Public Health · 2024
Who needs and continues to need paediatric palliative care? An evaluation of utility and feasibility of the Paediatric Palliative Screening scale (PaPaS)

BMC Palliative Care · 2020

Caregivers, bereavement and workforce

A public health model approach to grief and bereavement support for Asian family caregivers of adult home palliative care patients: insights from practice implementation

Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development · 2026
Burnout prevalence and associated factors among palliative and hospice care professionals during the COVID-19 endemic: an exploratory survey

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine · 2025
Caregiver needs in end-of-life care are diverse, yet invisible: a narrative review

Annals of Palliative Medicine · 2025
Facing death alone: an exploration of terminally ill individuals living alone in palliative care

Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore · 2024
Communicating with young children who have a parent dying of a life-limiting illness: a qualitative systematic review of the experiences and impact on healthcare, social and spiritual care professionals

BMC Palliative Care · 2022

Clinical studies

An open-label clinical trial of oral transmucosal haloperidol and oral transmucosal olanzapine in the treatment of terminal delirium at home

Trials · 2022
Parenteral lidocaine for complex cancer pain in the home or inpatient hospice setting: a review and synthesis of the evidence

Journal of Palliative Medicine · 2021
The use of continuous positive airway pressure ventilation in the palliative management of stridor in a head and neck cancer patient

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · 2019