Issue 1/2014
Content (63 Articles)
Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at the end of life – a ‘systematic search and review’ giving insight into an option of hastening death in capacitated adults at the end of life
Nataša Ivanović, Daniel Büche, André Fringer
BMC Palliative Care reviewer acknowledgement, 2013
Catia Cornacchia
Understanding the role of the volunteer in specialist palliative care: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
Rachel Burbeck, Bridget Candy, Joe Low, Rebecca Rees
Public preferences and priorities for end-of-life care in Kenya: a population-based street survey
Julia Downing, Barbara Gomes, Nancy Gikaara, Grace Munene, Barbara A Daveson, Richard A Powell, Faith N Mwangi-Powell, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding
The effect and process evaluations of the national quality improvement programme for palliative care: the study protocol
Natasja JH Raijmakers, Jolien M Hofstede, Ellen JM de Nijs, Luc Deliens, Anneke L Francke
Corticosteroid prescribing in palliative care settings: a retrospective analysis in New Zealand
Anne Denton, John Shaw
The effectiveness of the quality program Pac-IficO to improve pain management in hospitalized cancer patients: a before-after cluster phase II trial
Carla Ida Ripamonti, Cesarina Prandi, Massimo Costantini, Elisa Perfetti, Fabio Pellegrini, Marco Visentin, Lorenza Garrino, Anna De Luca, Maria Adelaide Pessi, Carlo Peruselli
Burden for family carers at the end of life; a mixed-method study of the perspectives of family carers and GPs
Maria C De Korte-Verhoef, H Roeline W Pasman, Bart PM Schweitzer, Anneke L Francke, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Luc Deliens
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice and associated factors towards palliative care among nurses working in selected hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Hiwot Kassa, Rajalakshmi Murugan, Fissiha Zewdu, Mignote Hailu, Desalegn Woldeyohannes
Death talk: gender differences in talking about one’s own impending death
Bragi Skulason, Arna Hauksdottir, Kozma Ahcic, Asgeir R Helgason
Regoaling: a conceptual model of how parents of children with serious illness change medical care goals
Douglas L Hill, Victoria Miller, Jennifer K Walter, Karen W Carroll, Wynne E Morrison, David A Munson, Tammy I Kang, Pamela S Hinds, Chris Feudtner
Motivations of physicians and nurses to practice voluntary euthanasia: a systematic review
Lydi-Anne Vézina-Im, Mireille Lavoie, Pawel Krol, Marianne Olivier-D’Avignon
Intervention thresholds: a conceptual frame for advance care planning choices
Karen G Scandrett, Brian Joyce, Linda Emanuel
Perceived outcomes of music therapy with Body Tambura in end of life care – a qualitative pilot study
Michael Teut, Cordula Dietrich, Bernhard Deutz, Nadine Mittring, Claudia M Witt
Cultural differences in spiritual care: findings of an Israeli oncologic questionnaire examining patient interest in spiritual care
Michael Schultz, Doron Lulav-Grinwald, Gil Bar-Sela
Oxidative stress level is not associated with survival in terminally ill cancer patients: a preliminary study
Chang Hwan Yeom, Youn Seon Choi, Hong Yup Ahn, Su Hey Lee, In Cheol Hwang
Multiple sclerosis and palliative care - perceptions of severely affected multiple sclerosis patients and their health professionals: a qualitative study
Heidrun Golla, Maren Galushko, Holger Pfaff, Raymond Voltz
Feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of dignity therapy for family carers of people with motor neurone disease
Brenda Bentley, Moira O’Connor, Lauren J Breen, Robert Kane
Place of death in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: a population based comparative study using death certificates data
Martin Loucka, Sheila A Payne, Sarah G Brearley
“It’s alright to ask for help”: findings from a qualitative study exploring the information and support needs of family carers at the end of life
Emily Harrop, Anthony Byrne, Annmarie Nelson
The feasibility and acceptability of neuromuscular electrical stimulation to improve exercise performance in patients with advanced cancer: a pilot study
Tamara Windholz, Tara Swanson, Brandy L Vanderbyl, R Thomas Jagoe
Case conferences between general practitioners and specialist teams to plan end of life care of people with end stage heart failure and lung disease: an exploratory pilot study
Geoffrey Mitchell, Jianzhen Zhang, Letitia Burridge, Hugh Senior, Elizabeth Miller, Sharleen Young, Maria Donald, Claire Jackson
Bereaved family member perceptions of patient-focused family-centred care during the last 30 days of life using a mortality follow-back survey: does location matter?
Fred Burge, Beverley Lawson, Grace Johnston, Yukiko Asada, Paul F McIntyre, Eva Grunfeld, Gordon Flowerdew
Chemotherapy near the end of life: a retrospective single-centre analysis of patients’ charts
Hanny Adam, Sonja Hug, Georg Bosshard
Meanings of existential uncertainty and certainty for people diagnosed with cancer and receiving palliative treatment: a life-world phenomenological study
Magdalena Karlsson, Febe Friberg, Catarina Wallengren, Joakim Öhlén
Is the patient satisfaction questionnaire an acceptable tool for use in a hospice inpatient setting? A pilot study
Kate ME Henriksen, Naomi Heller, Anne M Finucane, David Oxenham
Social capital in a lower socioeconomic palliative care population: a qualitative investigation of individual, community and civic networks and relations
Joanne M Lewis, Michelle DiGiacomo, David C Currow, Patricia M Davidson
Home telehealth and paediatric palliative care: clinician perceptions of what is stopping us?
Natalie K Bradford, Jeanine Young, Nigel R Armfield, Anthony Herbert, Anthony C Smith
Blended e-learning and end of life care in nursing homes: a small-scale mixed-methods case study
Conor JT Farrington
Towards a standardised approach for evaluating guidelines and guidance documents on palliative sedation: study protocol
Ebun Abarshi, Judith Rietjens, Augusto Caraceni, Sheila Payne, Luc Deliens, Lieve Van Den Block
Predictors of emergency room visits or acute hospital admissions prior to death among hospice palliative care clients in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study
Lialoma Salam-White, John P Hirdes, Jeffrey W Poss, Jane Blums
Creating an advance-care-planning decision aid for high-risk surgery: a qualitative study
Anne LR Schuster, Rebecca A Aslakson, John FP Bridges
Feasibility of assessing quality of care at the end of life in two cluster trials using an after-death approach with multiple assessments
Emily West, Vittoria Romoli, Silvia Di Leo, Irene J Higginson, Guido Miccinesi, Massimo Costantini
What works in ‘real life’ to facilitate home deaths and fewer hospital admissions for those at end of life?: results from a realist evaluation of new palliative care services in two English counties
Lesley Wye, Gemma Lasseter, John Percival, Lorna Duncan, Bethany Simmonds, Sarah Purdy
Insomnia among patients with advanced disease during admission in a Palliative Care Unit: a prospective observational study on its frequency and association with psychological, physical and environmental factors
Anna Renom-Guiteras, José Planas, Cristina Farriols, Sergi Mojal, Ramón Miralles, Maria A Silvent, Ada I Ruiz-Ripoll
A qualitative investigation of the roles and perspectives of older patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers in managing pain in the home
Christine J McPherson, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Alana Devereaux, Michelle M Lobchuk
Is a good death possible in Australian critical and acute settings?: physician experiences with end-of-life care
Steven A Trankle
What a wish to die can mean: reasons, meanings and functions of wishes to die, reported from 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care
Kathrin Ohnsorge, Heike Gudat, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
Clinical evaluation of the efficacy of methylnaltrexone in resolving constipation induced by different opioid subtypes combined with laboratory analysis of immunomodulatory and antiangiogenic effects of methylnaltrexone
Elisabeth CW Neefjes, Maurice JDL van der Vorst, Manon SA Boddaert, Wouter WA Zuurmond, Hans J van der Vliet, Aart Beeker, Hendrik P van den Berg, Cornelis J van Groeningen, Suzan Vrijaldenhoven, Henk MW Verheul
The DOMUS study protocol: a randomized clinical trial of accelerated transition from oncological treatment to specialized palliative care at home
Mie Nordly, Kirstine Skov Benthien, Hans Von Der Maase, Christoffer Johansen, Marie Kruse, Helle Timm, Eva Soelberg Vadstrup, Geana Paula Kurita, Annika Berglind von Heymann-Horan, Per Sjøgren
Characteristics of a palliative care consultation service with a focus on pain in a German university hospital
Joachim Erlenwein, Almut Geyer, Julia Schlink, Frank Petzke, Friedemann Nauck, Bernd Alt-Epping
Opioid switch from low dose of oral oxycodone to transdermal fentanyl matrix patch for patients with stable thoracic malignancy-related pain
Seigo Minami, Takashi Kijima, Takeshi Nakatani, Suguru Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Ogata, Haruhiko Hirata, Takayuki Shiroyama, Taro Koba, Kiyoshi Komuta
Can early introduction of specialized palliative care limit intensive care, emergency and hospital admissions in patients with severe and very severe COPD? a randomized study
Catherine Weber, Jerome Stirnemann, François R Herrmann, Sophie Pautex, Jean- Paul Janssens
Choosing care homes as the least preferred place to die: a cross-national survey of public preferences in seven European countries
Natalia Calanzani, Katrien Moens, Joachim Cohen, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding, Luc Deliens, Franco Toscani, Pedro L Ferreira, Claudia Bausewein, Barbara A Daveson, Marjolein Gysels, Lucas Ceulemans, Barbara Gomes
Palliative radiotherapy utilization for cancer patients at end of life in British Columbia: retrospective cohort study
Jin Huang, Elaine S Wai, Francis Lau, Paul A Blood
Use of chemotherapy at the end of life in Turkey
Sema Sezgin Goksu, Seyda Gunduz, Dilek Unal, Mukremin Uysal, Deniz Arslan, Ali M Tatlı, Hakan Bozcuk, Mustafa Ozdogan, Hasan S Coskun
Corticosteroids in palliative care - perspectives of clinicians involved in prescribing: a qualitative study
Anne Denton, John Shaw
Experiences of patients, family and professional caregivers with Integrated Palliative Care in Europe: protocol for an international, multicenter, prospective, mixed method study
Marlieke van der Eerden, Agnes Csikos, Csilla Busa, Sean Hughes, Lukas Radbruch, Johan Menten, Jeroen Hasselaar, Marieke Groot
Death wishes and explicit requests for euthanasia in a palliative care hospital: an analysis of patients files
Frédéric Guirimand, Etienne Dubois, Lucy Laporte, Jean-François Richard, Danièle Leboul
Care planning needs of palliative home care clients: Development of the interRAI palliative care assessment clinical assessment protocols (CAPs)
Shannon Freeman, John P Hirdes, Paul Stolee, John Garcia, Trevor Frise Smith, Knight Steel, John N Morris
Attitudes and referral patterns of lung cancer specialists in Europe to Specialized Palliative Care (SPC) and the practice of Early Palliative Care (EPC)
Haris Charalambous, Athanasios Pallis, Baktiar Hasan, Mary O’Brien
Music therapy to promote psychological and physiological relaxation in palliative care patients: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Marco Warth, Jens Kessler, Julian Koenig, Alexander F Wormit, Thomas K Hillecke, Hubert J Bardenheuer
Unbearable suffering and requests for euthanasia prospectively studied in end-of-life cancer patients in primary care
Cees DM Ruijs, Gerrit van der Wal, Ad JFM Kerkhof, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Predictors of spiritual care provision for patients with dementia at the end of life as perceived by physicians: a prospective study
Jenny T van der Steen, Marie-José HE Gijsberts, Cees MPM Hertogh, Luc Deliens
Prevalence and risk factors of depressive symptoms in a Canadian palliative home care population: a cross-sectional study
Kathryn A Fisher, Hsien Seow, Kevin Brazil, Shannon Freeman, Trevor Frise Smith, Dawn M Guthrie
The Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale modified for palliative care inpatients (RASS-PAL): a pilot study exploring validity and feasibility in clinical practice
Shirley H Bush, Pamela A Grassau, Michelle N Yarmo, Tinghua Zhang, Samantha J Zinkie, José L Pereira
Qualitative inquiry: a method for validating patient perceptions of palliative care while enrolled on a cancer clinical trial
Christina Slota, Connie M Ulrich, Claiborne Miller-Davis, Karen Baker, Gwenyth R Wallen
Hospitalizations of cancer patients in the last month of life: quality indicator scores reveal large variation between four European countries in a mortality follow-back study
Maaike L De Roo, Anneke L Francke, Lieve Van den Block, Gé A Donker, Jose E Lozano Alonso, Guido Miccinesi, Sarah Moreels, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Andrea Salvetti, Luc Deliens
The study protocol of: ‘Initiating end of life care in stroke: clinical decision-making around prognosis’
Christopher R Burton, Sheila Payne, Mary Turner, Tracey Bucknall, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Pippa Tyrrell, Maria Horne, Lupetu Ives Ntambwe, Sarah Tyson, Helen Mitchell, Sion Williams, Salah Elghenzai
A modified systematic review of research evidence about education for pre-registration nurses in palliative care
Nahyeni Bassah, Jane Seymour, Karen Cox
Factors associated with the designation of a health care proxy and writing advance directives for patients suffering from haematological malignancies
Sophie Trarieux-Signol, Stéphane Moreau, Marie-Pierre Gourin, Amélie Penot, Geoffroy Edoux de Lafont, Pierre-Marie Preux, Dominique Bordessoule
Initiating decision-making conversations in palliative care: an ethnographic discourse analysis
Emmanuelle Bélanger, Charo Rodríguez, Danielle Groleau, France Légaré, Mary Ellen Macdonald, Robert Marchand
Erratum to: The feasibility and acceptability of neuromuscular electrical stimulation to improve exercise performance in patients with advanced cancer: a pilot study
Tamara Windholz, Tara Swanson, Brandy L Vanderbyl, R Thomas Jagoe