Irene J Higginson (Irene Higginson)

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2014-2024
Publications (10 Years): 53

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Palliative medicine

ERJ open research

The European respiratory journal

BMC medicine

King's College Hospital

University of London (PHD)

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Affiliation History

King's College Hospital

United Kingdom

Assistant Medical Director :: Research and Development

King's College Hospital

United Kingdom

Assistant Medical Director :: Research and Development

University Hospital Lewisham

United Kingdom

Honorary Consultant :: Palliative Medicine

Guy's and Saint Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

United Kingdom

Honorary Consultant :: Palliative Medicine

Cicely Saunders International Jun 01 2002

United Kingdom

Scientific Director

King's College London Apr 01 2001

United Kingdom

Professor :: Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation

King's College Hospital

United Kingdom

Honorary Consultant :: Palliative Medicine

Education History

University of London

United Kingdom

PHD

University of Nottingham

United Kingdom

BSC :: Medical School

Publications

Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine (2024)
Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine 38 (6) (2024)
Steffen T Simon, Irene J Higginson, Claudia Bausewein, Caroline J Jolley, Sabrina Bajwah, Maddocks Matthew, Carolin Wilharm, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Anne Pralong, null null
Practice review: Pharmacological management of severe chronic breathlessness in adults with advanced life-limiting diseases. Palliative medicine (2024)
Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine 38 (6) (2024)
Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine (2024)
Sophie Pask, Allen Omoruyi, Ahmed Mohamed, Rachel L Cripps, Phillippa G McFarlane, Therese Johansson, Rashmi Kumar, Andy Woodhead, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman, Fliss E M Murtagh
Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework. Palliative medicine 38 (5) (2024)
Sophie Pask, Allen Omoruyi, Ahmed Mohamed, Rachel L Cripps, Phillippa G McFarlane, Therese Johansson, Rashmi Kumar, Andy Woodhead, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman, Fliss E M Murtagh
Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework. Palliative medicine 38 (5) (2024)
Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine 38 (6) (2024)
Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine 38 (6) (2024)
Therese Johansson, Rachel L Cripps, Thomas Curtis, Sophie Pask, Sarah Greenley, Molly Brittain, Anna E Bone, Lynn Laidlaw, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Fliss E M Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman
The effectiveness of out-of-hours palliative care telephone advice lines: A rapid systematic review. Palliative medicine (2024)
Sophie Pask, Allen Omoruyi, Ahmed Mohamed, Rachel L Cripps, Phillippa G McFarlane, Therese Johansson, Rashmi Kumar, Andy Woodhead, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman, Fliss E M Murtagh
Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework. Palliative medicine (2024)
Sophie Pask, Allen Omoruyi, Ahmed Mohamed, Rachel L Cripps, Phillippa G McFarlane, Therese Johansson, Rashmi Kumar, Andy Woodhead, Ikumi Okamoto, Stephen Barclay, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman, Fliss E M Murtagh
Telephone advice lines for adults with advanced illness and their family carers: a qualitative analysis and novel practical framework. Palliative medicine 38 (5) (2024)
Charles C Reilly, Irene J Higginson, Trudie Chalder
Illness perceptions, cognitive and behavioural responses to chronic breathlessness in individuals living with advanced respiratory disease: an observational study. ERJ open research 10 (2) (2024)
Natasha Lovell, Simon N Etkind, Joanna M Davies, Wendy Prentice, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman
Effect of listening to breathing recordings on self-reported breathlessness: a public experiment. The European respiratory journal (2023)
Javiera Leniz, Joanna M Davies, Anna E Bone, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Julia Verne, Stephen Barclay, Fliss E M Murtagh, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman
Deaths at home, area-based deprivation and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine (2023)
Tushti Bhardwaj, Rachel L Cripps, Harry Watson, null Srividya, Irene J Higginson, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale in Hindi: Toward capturing palliative needs and concerns in Hindi speaking patients. Palliative medicine (2023)
Javiera Leniz, Joanna M Davies, Anna E Bone, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Julia Verne, Stephen Barclay, Fliss E M Murtagh, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman
Deaths at home, area-based deprivation and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine (2023)
Tushti Bhardwaj, Rachel L Cripps, Harry Watson, null Srividya, Irene J Higginson, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale in Hindi: Toward capturing palliative needs and concerns in Hindi speaking patients. Palliative medicine 37 (3) (2023)
Claire Marie Nolan, Lisa Jane Brighton, Yihan Mo, Joanne Bayly, Irene J Higginson, William D C Man, Matthew Maddocks
Meditative movement for breathlessness in advanced COPD or cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society 32 (168) (2023)
Javiera Leniz, Joanna M Davies, Anna E Bone, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Julia Verne, Stephen Barclay, Fliss E M Murtagh, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman
Deaths at home, area-based deprivation and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine (2023)
Tushti Bhardwaj, Rachel L Cripps, Harry Watson, null Srividya, Irene J Higginson, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale in Hindi: Toward capturing palliative needs and concerns in Hindi speaking patients. Palliative medicine 37 (3) (2023)
Charles C Reilly, Matthew Maddocks, Trudie Chalder, Katherine Bristowe, Irene J Higginson
A randomised, controlled, feasibility trial of an online, self-guided breathlessness supportive intervention (SELF-BREATHE) for individuals with chronic breathlessness due to advanced disease. ERJ open research 9 (2) (2023)
Tushti Bhardwaj, Rachel L Cripps, Harry Watson, null Srividya, Irene J Higginson, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale in Hindi: Toward capturing palliative needs and concerns in Hindi speaking patients. Palliative medicine 37 (3) (2023)
Javiera Leniz, Joanna M Davies, Anna E Bone, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Julia Verne, Stephen Barclay, Fliss E M Murtagh, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman
Deaths at home, area-based deprivation and the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine (2023)
Tushti Bhardwaj, Rachel L Cripps, Harry Watson, null Srividya, Irene J Higginson, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale in Hindi: Toward capturing palliative needs and concerns in Hindi speaking patients. Palliative medicine 37 (3) (2023)
Kathryn Date, Bronwen Williams, Judith Cohen, Nazia Chaudhuri, Sabrina Bajwah, Mark Pearson, Irene J Higginson, John Norrie, Catriona Keerie, Sharon Tuck, Peter S Hall, David Currow, Marie Fallon, Miriam Johnson
Modified-release morphine or placebo for chronic breathlessness: the MABEL trial protocol. ERJ open research 9 (4) (2023)
Eve Namisango, Katherine Bristowe, Fliss E M Murtagh, Julia Downing, Richard A Powell, Mackuline Atieno, Melanie Abas, Zipporah Ali, Emmanuel Bk Luyirika, Michelle Meiring, Faith N Mwangi-Powell, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding
Face and content validity, acceptability, feasibility, and implementability of a novel outcome measure for children with life-limiting or life-threatening illness in three sub-Saharan African countries. Palliative medicine 36 (7) (2022)
James M Beattie, Irene J Higginson, Theresa A McDonagh, Wei Gao
Implementation of the Mental Capacity Act: a national observational study comparing resultant trends in place of death for older heart failure decedents with or without comorbid dementia. BMC medicine 20 (1) (2022)
Deok Hee Yi, Charles C Reilly, Gao Wei, Irene J Higginson, null null
Optimising breathlessness triggered services for older people with advanced diseases: a multicentre economic study (OPTBreathe). Thorax (2022)
Charles C Reilly, Katherine Bristowe, Anna Roach, Trudie Chalder, Matthew Maddocks, Irene J Higginson
"The whole of humanity has lungs, doesn't it? We are not all the same sort of people": patient preferences and choices for an online, self-guided chronic breathlessness supportive intervention: SELF-BREATHE. ERJ open research 8 (3) (2022)
Javiera Leniz, Martin C Gulliford, Irene J Higginson, Sabrina Bajwah, Deok Hee Yi, Wei Gao, Katherine E Sleeman
Primary care contacts, continuity, identification of palliative care needs, and hospital use: a population-based cohort study in people dying with dementia. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2022)
Charles C Reilly, Katherine Bristowe, Anna Roach, Matthew Maddocks, Irene J Higginson
"You can do it yourself and you can do it at your convenience": internet accessibility and willingness of people with chronic breathlessness to use an internet-based breathlessness self-management intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic. ERJ open research 8 (1) (2022)
Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Sabrina Bajwah, Katherine E Sleeman, Catherine Walshe, Nancy Preston, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Andy Bradshaw, Rachel L Chambers, Fliss E M Murtagh, Lesley Dunleavy, Matthew Maddocks, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Irene J Higginson
Symptom management in people dying with COVID-19: multinational observational study. BMJ supportive & palliative care 12 (4) (2022)
Ian W Garner, Catherine Walshe, Lesley Dunleavy, Andy Bradshaw, Nancy J Preston, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Fliss E M Murtagh, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Katherine E Sleeman, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu, Sabrina Bajwah, Rachel L Cripps, Maddocks Matthew, Irene J Higginson
Charitably funded hospices and the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study (CovPall). BMC palliative care 21 (1) (2022)
Catherine Walshe, Ian W Garner, Lesley Dunleavy, Nancy J Preston, Andy Bradshaw, Rachel L Cripps, Sabrina Bajwah, Katherine E Sleeman, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu, Maddocks Matthew, Fliss E M Murtagh, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Irene J Higginson
Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall). International journal of health policy and management (2021)
Lesley Dunleavy, Nancy J Preston, Sabrina Bajwah, Andy Bradshaw, Rachel L Cripps, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Maddocks Matthew, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Fliss E M Murtagh, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Katherine E Sleeman, Irene J Higginson, Catherine Walshe
'Necessity is the mother of invention': Specialist palliative care service innovation and practice change in response to COVID-19. Results from a multinational survey (CovPall). Palliative medicine 35 (5) (2021)
Catherine J Evans, Laura Potts, Ursula Dalrymple, Andrew Pring, Julia Verne, Irene J Higginson, Wei Gao, null null
Characteristics and mortality rates among patients requiring intermediate care: a national cohort study using linked databases. BMC medicine 19 (1) (2021)
Sabrina Bajwah, Jonathan Simon Koffman, Jamilla Hussain, Andy Bradshaw, Mevhibe B Hocaoglu, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Caitlin Allwin, Lesley Dunleavy, Nancy Preston, Rachel Cripps, Matthew Maddocks, Katherine E Sleeman, Irene J Higginson, Catherine Walshe, Fliss E M Murtagh, null null
Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable-an observational study. BMJ supportive & palliative care (2021)
Sean B O'Donnell, Anna E Bone, Anne M Finucane, Jenny McAleese, Irene J Higginson, Stephen Barclay, Katherine E Sleeman, Fliss E M Murtagh
Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine 35 (10) (2021)
Javiera Leniz, Irene J Higginson, Deok Hee Yi, Zia Ul-Haq, Amanda Lucas, Katherine E Sleeman
Identification of palliative care needs among people with dementia and its association with acute hospital care and community service use at the end-of-life: A retrospective cohort study using linked primary, community and secondary care data. Palliative medicine 35 (9) (2021)
Joanne Bayly, Andy Bradshaw, Lucy Fettes, Muhammed Omarjee, Helena Talbot-Rice, Catherine Walshe, Katherine E Sleeman, Sabrina Bajwah, Lesley Dunleavy, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Adejoke Oluyase, Ian Garner, Rachel L Cripps, Nancy J Preston, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Fliss E M Murtagh, Irene J Higginson, Maddocks Matthew
Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data. Palliative medicine 36 (2) (2021)
Sabrina Bajwah, Jill Colquitt, Emma Loveman, Claudia Bausewein, Howard Almond, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Mendy Dzingina, Matthew Maddocks, Irene J Higginson, Athol Wells
Pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions to improve symptom control, functional exercise capacity and quality of life in interstitial lung disease: an evidence synthesis. ERJ open research 7 (1) (2021)
Andy Bradshaw, Lesley Dunleavy, Catherine Walshe, Nancy J Preston, Rachel L Cripps, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Sabrina Bajwah, Maddocks Matthew, Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase, Katherine E Sleeman, Irene J Higginson, Lorna Katherine Fraser, Fliss E M Murtagh, null null
Understanding and addressing challenges for advance care planning in the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the UK CovPall survey data from specialist palliative care services. Palliative medicine 35 (7) (2021)
Irene J Higginson, Andrew Wilcock, Miriam J Johnson, Sabrina Bajwah, Natasha Lovell, Deokhee Yi, Simon P Hart, Vincent Crosby, Heather Poad, David Christopher Currow, Emma Best, Sarah Brown, null null
Randomised, double-blind, multicentre, mixed-methods, dose-escalation feasibility trial of mirtazapine for better treatment of severe breathlessness in advanced lung disease (BETTER-B feasibility). Thorax 75 (2) (2020)
Jonathan Simon Koffman, Emel Yorganci, Fliss E M Murtagh, Deok Hee Yi, Wei Gao, Stephen Barclay, Andrew Pickles, Irene J Higginson, Halle Johnson, Rebecca Wilson, Sylvia Bailey, Colleen F McKenna, Catherine J Evans
The AMBER care bundle for hospital inpatients with uncertain recovery nearing the end of life: the ImproveCare feasibility cluster RCT. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) 23 (55) (2020)
Mevhibe B Hocaoglu, Nilay Hepgul, India Tunnard, Emine Meltem, Hande Efe, Buse Ataoglu, Yeliz Lerzan Baybar, Merve Kınacıgil, Husam Elsharairi, Irene J Higginson
Towards patient-centred cancer care: cross-cultural validity and responsiveness of the Turkish Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale. Health and quality of life outcomes 18 (1) (2020)
Mayurapriya Raviskanthan, Megan Rees, Jo Douglass, Katherine Sleeman, Irene J Higginson, Natasha Smallwood
Equal or not? Women hold less prestigious roles at respiratory medicine conferences than men. The European respiratory journal 55 (1) (2020)
Irene J Higginson, Deokhee Yi, Bridget M Johnston, Karen Ryan, Regina McQuillan, Lucy Selman, Stephen Z Pantilat, Barbara A Daveson, R Sean Morrison, Charles Normand
Associations between informal care costs, care quality, carer rewards, burden and subsequent grief: the international, access, rights and empowerment mortality follow-back study of the last 3 months of life (IARE I study). BMC medicine 18 (1) (2020)
Massimo Costantini, Katherine E Sleeman, Carlo Peruselli, Irene J Higginson
Response and role of palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national telephone survey of hospices in Italy. Palliative medicine 34 (7) (2020)
Nete Skjoedt, Anna Thit Johnsen, Per Sjøgren, Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Anette Damkier, Christian Gluud, Jane Lindschou, Peter Fayers, Irene J Higginson, Annette S Strömgren, Mogens Groenvold
Early specialised palliative care: interventions, symptoms, problems. BMJ supportive & palliative care 11 (4) (2020)
Anna E Bone, Anne M Finucane, Javiera Leniz, Irene J Higginson, Katherine E Sleeman
Changing patterns of mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Population-based modelling to understand palliative care implications. Palliative medicine 34 (9) (2020)
Sabrina Bajwah, Andrew Wilcock, Richard Towers, Massimo Costantini, Claudia Bausewein, Steffen T Simon, Elisabeth Bendstrup, Wendy Prentice, Miriam J Johnson, David C Currow, Michael Kreuter, Athol U Wells, Surinder S Birring, Polly Edmonds, Irene J Higginson
Managing the supportive care needs of those affected by COVID-19. The European respiratory journal 55 (4) (2020)
Guillaume Pierre Serge Economos, Natasha Lovell, Anna Johnston, Irene J Higginson
What is the evidence for mirtazapine in treating cancer-related symptomatology? A systematic review. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 28 (4) (2019)
Wayne Smith, Paul McCrone, Cassie Goddard, Wei Gao, Rachel Burman, Diana Jackson, Irene J Higginson, Eli Silber, Jonathan Koffman
Comparisons of Costs between Black Caribbean and White British Patients with Advanced Multiple Sclerosis in the UK. Multiple sclerosis international 2014 (2014)

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