Friday 17 November 2017

Music therapy for palliative care: A realist review

Supportive and Palliative Care 2017 15(4) 454-64
Tracey McConnell, Sam Porter

The authors wanted to explore how music therapy benefits patients receiving palliative care and the barriers and facilitators to its implementation.  They found that it may be an effective non-pharmacological aid to managing distressing physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual symptoms.   They also identified the contexts in which music therapy was successfully introduced.  

Fulltext available in  Palliative and Supportive Care