Issue 1/2020
Content (188 Articles)
A rapid positive influence of S-ketamine on the anxiety of patients in palliative care: a retrospective pilot study
Eduard Falk, Daniel Schlieper, Patrick van Caster, Matthias J. Lutterbeck, Jacqueline Schwartz, Joachim Cordes, Ina Grau, Peter Kienbaum, Martin Neukirchen
Nursing home staff’s perspective on end-of-life care of German nursing home residents: a cross-sectional survey
Anke Strautmann, Katharina Allers, Alexander Maximilian Fassmer, Falk Hoffmann
Oxygen use and survival in patients with advanced cancer and low oxygen saturation in home care: a preliminary retrospective cohort study
Hiroshi Igarashi, Motoharu Fukushi, Naoki Nago
End-of-life decision making by Austrian physicians - a cross-sectional study
D. Jahn-Kuch, A. Domke, S. Bitsche, H. Stöger, A. Avian, K. Jeitler, N. Posch, A. Siebenhofer
Implementing the theory-based advance care planning ACP+ programme for nursing homes: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation
Joni Gilissen, Lara Pivodic, Annelien Wendrich-van Dael, Chris Gastmans, Robert Vander Stichele, Yvonne Engels, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Luc Deliens, Lieve Van den Block
Are the MORECare guidelines on reporting of attrition in palliative care research populations appropriate? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Anna Oriani, Lesley Dunleavy, Paul Sharples, Guillermo Perez Algorta, Nancy J. Preston
A sense of security in palliative homecare in a Norwegian municipality; dyadic comparisons of the perceptions of patients and relatives - a quantitative study
Reidun Hov, Bente Bjørsland, Bente Ødegård Kjøs, Bodil Wilde-Larsson
Palliative care for patients with substance use disorder and multiple problems: a qualitative study on experiences of healthcare professionals, volunteers and experts-by-experience
Anne Ebenau, Boukje Dijkstra, Chantal ter Huurne, Jeroen Hasselaar, Kris Vissers, Marieke Groot
An EAPC white paper on multi-disciplinary education for spiritual care in palliative care
Megan Best, Carlo Leget, Andrew Goodhead, Piret Paal
Variation in the implementation of PaTz: a method to improve palliative care in general practice - a prospective observational study
Ian Koper, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Bart P. M. Schweitzer, Greet van der Zweep, Gon Uyttewaal, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Correction to: Health-related quality of life and its socio-economic and cultural predictors among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH cross-sectional survey in Hyderabad-India
Jean Jacob, Gayatri Palat, Naina Verghese, Priya Kumari, Vineela Rapelli, Sanjeeva Kumari, Chetna Malhotra, Irene Teo, Eric Finkelstein, Semra Ozdemir
Current status of integrating oncology and palliative care in Japan: a nationwide survey
Y. Uneno, K. Sato, T. Morita, M. Nishimura, S. Ito, M. Mori, C. Shimizu, Y. Horie, M. Hirakawa, T. E. Nakajima, S. Tsuneto, M. Muto
Unmet needs of patients with cancer in their last year of life as described by caregivers in a developing world setting: a qualitative study
Karen Cox-Seignoret, Rohan G. Maharaj
Anticancer therapy within the last 30 days of life: results of an audit and re-audit cycle from an Australian regional cancer centre
Mike Nguyen, Sean Ng Ying Kin, Evonne Shum, Alysson Wann, Babak Tamjid, Arvind Sahu, Javier Torres
Correction to: An online international comparison of thresholds for triggering a negative response to the “Surprise Question”: a study protocol
Nicola White, Linda Oostendorp, Victoria Vickerstaff, Christina Gerlach, Yvonne Engels, Maud Maessen, Christopher Tomlinson, Johan Wens, Bert Leysen, Guido Biasco, Sofia Zambrano, Steffen Eychmüller, Christina Avgerinou, Rabih Chattat, Giovanni Ottoboni, Carel Veldhoven, Patrick Stone
International palliative care research priorities: A systematic review
Felicity Hasson, Emma Nicholson, Deborah Muldrew, Olufikayo Bamidele, Sheila Payne, Sonja McIlfatrick
Shared decision making with oncologists and palliative care specialists effectively increases the documentation of the preferences for do not resuscitate and artificial nutrition and hydration in patients with advanced cancer: a model testing study
Hsien-Liang Huang, Jaw-Shiun Tsai, Chien-An Yao, Shao-Yi Cheng, Wen-Yu Hu, Tai-Yuan Chiu
Who needs and continues to need paediatric palliative care? An evaluation of utility and feasibility of the Paediatric Palliative Screening scale (PaPaS)
Poh Heng Chong, Janice Soo, Zhi Zheng Yeo, Raymond Qishun Ang, Celene Ting
IDentification of patients in need of general and specialised PALLiative care (ID-PALL©): item generation, content and face validity of a new interprofessional screening instrument
Fabienne Teike Lüthi, Mathieu Bernard, Michel Beauverd, Claudia Gamondi, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet, Gian Domenico Borasio
Limited knowledge and access to palliative care among women with cervical cancer: an opportunity for integrating oncology and palliative care in Zimbabwe
O. Tapera, A. M. Nyakabau
Implementation of the milestones communication approach for patients with limited prognosis: evaluation of intervention fidelity
Jasmin Bossert, Michel Wensing, Michael Thomas, Matthias Villalobos, Corinna Jung, Anja Siegle, Laura Hagelskamp, Nicole Deis, Jana Jünger, Katja Krug
The influence of spirituality on decision-making in palliative care outpatients: a cross-sectional study
Francisca Rego, Florbela Gonçalves, Susana Moutinho, Luísa Castro, Rui Nunes
Compassion fatigue, watching patients suffering and emotional display rules among hospice professionals: a daily diary study
Igor Portoghese, Maura Galletta, Philip Larkin, Salvatore Sardo, Marcello Campagna, Gabriele Finco, Ernesto D’Aloja
A scoping review of initiatives to reduce inappropriate or non-beneficial hospital admissions and bed days in people nearing the end of their life: much innovation, but limited supporting evidence
Ros Taylor, Jonathan Ellis, Wei Gao, Liz Searle, Kate Heaps, Robert Davies, Claire Hawksworth, Angela Garcia-Perez, Giles Colclough, Steven Walker, Bee Wee
Measuring the quality of care in nursing home residents with early-onset neurodegenerative diseases: a scoping review
Joyce C. F. Heffels, Irma H. J. Everink, Mayke Oosterloo, Raymund A. C. Roos, Jos M. G. A. Schols
The assessment of spiritual well-being in cancer patients with advanced disease: which are its meaningful dimensions?
Elisa Rabitti, Silvio Cavuto, Luca Iani, Simona Ottonelli, Francesco De Vincenzo, Massimo Costantini
Underlying goals of advance care planning (ACP): a qualitative analysis of the literature
Nienke Fleuren, Marja F. I. A. Depla, Daisy J. A. Janssen, Martijn Huisman, Cees M. P. M. Hertogh
When a child dies: a systematic review of well-defined parent-focused bereavement interventions and their alignment with grief- and loss theories
Eline M. Kochen, Floor Jenken, Paul A. Boelen, Laura M. A. Deben, Jurrianne C. Fahner, Agnes van den Hoogen, Saskia C. C. M. Teunissen, Karin Geleijns, Marijke C. Kars
Coping and wellbeing in bereavement: two core outcomes for evaluating bereavement support in palliative care
Emily Harrop, Hannah Scott, Stephanie Sivell, Kathy Seddon, Jim Fitzgibbon, Fiona Morgan, Sara Pickett, Anthony Byrne, Annmarie Nelson, Mirella Longo
Development and testing of an informative guide about palliative care for family caregivers of people with advanced dementia
Lina Riedl, Manuela Bertok, Julia Hartmann, Julia Fischer, Carola Rossmeier, Andreas Dinkel, Marion Ortner, Janine Diehl-Schmid
First referral to an integrated onco-palliative care program: a retrospective analysis of its timing
Claire Barth, Isabelle Colombet, Vincent Montheil, Olivier Huillard, Pascaline Boudou-Rouquette, Camille Tlemsani, Jérôme Alexandre, François Goldwasser, Pascale Vinant
Frequency of discussing and documenting advance care planning in primary care: secondary analysis of a multicenter cross-sectional observational study
Jun Hamano, Ai Oishi, Tatsuya Morita, Yoshiyuki Kizawa
Increasing preparedness for caregiving and death in family caregivers of patients with severe illness who are cared for at home – study protocol for a web-based intervention
Anette Alvariza, Louise Häger-Tibell, Maja Holm, Gunnar Steineck, Ulrika Kreicbergs
A phenomenological study of nurses experience about their palliative approach and their use of mobile palliative care teams in medical and surgical care units in France
Agnès Oude Engberink, Maryse Mailly, Valerie Marco, Daniele Bourrie, Jean-Pierre Benezech, Josyane Chevallier, Sandrine Vanderhoeven, Remy Crosnier, Gérard Bourrel, Béatrice Lognos
Impact of socioeconomic status on end-of-life costs: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Caberry W. Yu, S. Mohammad Alavinia, David A. Alter
How to ensure basic competencies in end of life care – a mixed methods study with post-graduate trainees in primary care in Germany
Simon Schwill, Dorothee Reith, Tobias Walter, Peter Engeser, Michel Wensing, Elisabeth Flum, Joachim Szecsenyi, Katja Krug
The impact of the duration of the palliative care period on cancer patients with regard to the use of hospital services and the place of death: a retrospective cohort study
Outi M. Hirvonen, Riikka-Leena Leskelä, Lotta Grönholm, Olli Haltia, Samuli Voltti, Kristiina Tyynelä-Korhonen, Eeva K. Rahko, Juho T. Lehto, Tiina Saarto
End-of-life care preferences of the general public and recommendations of healthcare providers: a nationwide survey in Japan
Jun Hamano, Kyoko Hanari, Nanako Tamiya
Psychometric properties of the Czech Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale: reliability and content validity analysis
Karolina Vlckova, Eva Hoschlova, Eva Chroustova, Martin Loucka
Measuring quality of life in life-threatening illness – content validity and response processes of MQOL-E and QOLLTI-F in Swedish patients and family carers
Lena Axelsson, Anette Alvariza, Nina Carlsson, S. Robin Cohen, Richard Sawatzky, Kristofer Årestedt
Implementation of palliative care consult Service in Hungary – integration barriers and facilitators
Antal T. Zemplényi, Ágnes Csikós, Marcell Csanádi, Maureen Rutten-van Mölken, Carmen Hernandez, János G. Pitter, Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus, Zoltán Kaló
Outcomes after long-term mechanical ventilation of cancer patients
Kelly Haviland, Kay See Tan, Nadja Schwenk, Manju V. Pillai, Diane E. Stover, Robert J. Downey
Fatigue, barriers to physical activity and predictors for motivation to exercise in advanced Cancer patients
J. Frikkel, M. Götte, M. Beckmann, S. Kasper, J. Hense, M. Teufel, M. Schuler, M. Tewes
A mixed methods investigation of end-of-life surrogate decisions among older adults
Eleonore Batteux, Eamonn Ferguson, Richard J. Tunney
The views of physicians and nurses on the potentials of an electronic assessment system for recognizing the needs of patients in palliative care
Natalia Radionova, Gerhild Becker, Regine Mayer-Steinacker, Deniz Gencer, Monika A. Rieger, Christine Preiser
Trauma to Transformation: the lived experience of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening illnesses in Singapore
Oindrila Dutta, Geraldine Tan-Ho, Ping Ying Choo, Xinyi Casuarine Low, Poh Heng Chong, Carolyn Ng, Sashikumar Ganapathy, Andy Hau Yan Ho
Palliative care utilization in oncology and hemato-oncology: a systematic review of cognitive barriers and facilitators from the perspective of healthcare professionals, adult patients, and their families
Marco Bennardi, Nicola Diviani, Claudia Gamondi, Georg Stüssi, Piercarlo Saletti, Ivan Cinesi, Sara Rubinelli
“From good hearted community members we get volunteers” – an exploratory study of palliative care volunteers across Africa
Carolin Clara Loth, Eve Namisango, Richard Antony Powell, Katharina Henny Pabst, Mhoira Leng, Mohamed Hamada, Lukas Radbruch
The desire to die in palliative care: a sequential mixed methods study to develop a semi-structured clinical approach
Kerstin Kremeike, Gerrit Frerich, Vanessa Romotzky, Kathleen Boström, Thomas Dojan, Maren Galushko, Kija Shah-Hosseini, Saskia Jünger, Gary Rodin, Holger Pfaff, Klaus Maria Perrar, Raymond Voltz
The family talk intervention for families when a parent is cared for in palliative care – potential effects from minor children’s perspectives
Rakel Eklund, Anette Alvariza, Ulrika Kreicbergs, Li Jalmsell, Malin Lövgren
Profiles of family caregivers of patients at the end of life at home: a Q-methodological study into family caregiver’ support needs
Femmy M. Bijnsdorp, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Cécile R. L. Boot, Susanne M. van Hooft, AnneLoes van Staa, Anneke L. Francke
Palliative Performance Scale: cross cultural adaptation and psychometric validation for Polish hospice setting
Tomasz Dzierżanowski, Tomasz Gradalski, Michael Kozlowski
Early palliative care versus standard care in haematologic cancer patients at their last active treatment: study protocol of a feasibility trial
Silvia Tanzi, Stefano Luminari, Silvio Cavuto, Elena Turola, Luca Ghirotto, Massimo Costantini
Disseminating research findings using a massive online open course for maximising impact and developing recommendations for practice
Nancy Preston, Jeroen Hasselaar, Sean Hughes, Alex Kaley, Lisa Linge-Dahl, Ildiko Radvanyi, Phil Tubman, Karen Van Beek, Sandra Varey, Sheila Payne
Challenges on the provision of palliative care for patients with cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews
Hammoda Abu-Odah, Alex Molassiotis, Justina Liu
The use of olanzapine as an antiemetic in palliative medicine: a systematic review of the literature
G. Saudemont, C. Prod’Homme, A. Da Silva, S. Villet, M. Reich, N. Penel, V. Gamblin
Social regulation activities in end-of-life: a qualitative study on completion of advance directives in Swiss nursing homes
M. Droz Mendelzweig
Differences in well-being and fear of death among female hospice employees and volunteers in Hungary
Ágnes Zana, Adrienne Kegye, Edit Czeglédi, Katalin Hegedűs
Battle, Journey, Imprisonment and Burden: patterns of metaphor use in blogs about living with advanced cancer
Charlotte Hommerberg, Anna W. Gustafsson, Anna Sandgren
Severe pain at the end of life: a population-level observational study
A. Meaghen Hagarty, Shirley H. Bush, Robert Talarico, Julie Lapenskie, Peter Tanuseputro
Complementary music therapy for cancer patients in at-home palliative care and their caregivers: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Inmaculada Valero-Cantero, Francisco Javier Martínez-Valero, Milagrosa Espinar-Toledo, Cristina Casals, Francisco Javier Barón-López, María Ángeles Vázquez-Sánchez
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Palliative Care in German Comprehensive Cancer Centers - an evaluation of the implementation status
Sarah Lödel, Christoph Ostgathe, Maria Heckel, Karin Oechsle, Susanne Gahr
Effect of palliative care training on perceived self-efficacy of the nurses
Fatemeh Dehghani, Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Maryam Sedaghati-kasbakhi, Hossein Fallahzadeh
Two faces of the same coin: a qualitative study of patients’ and carers’ coexistence with chronic breathlessness associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Diana H. Ferreira, Slavica Kochovska, Aaron Honson, Jane L. Phillips, David C. Currow
The required competencies of physicians within palliative care from the perspectives of multi-professional expert groups: a qualitative study
Hanna-Leena Melender, Minna Hökkä, Tiina Saarto, Juho T. Lehto
An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study
Eleanor Wilson, Glenys Caswell, Asam Latif, Claire Anderson, Christina Faull, Kristian Pollock
Evaluation of a communication skills training to facilitate addressing palliative care related topics in advanced cancer patients: study protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial (PALLI-KOM)
Nele Harnischfeger, Hilke M. Rath, Anneke Ullrich, Bernd Alt-Epping, Anne Letsch, Peter Thuss-Patience, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle, Corinna Bergelt
Role of nurses in medication management at the end of life: a qualitative interview study
Bregje A. A. Huisman, Eric C. T. Geijteman, Marianne K. Dees, Noralie N. Schonewille, Margriet Wieles, Lia van Zuylen, Karolina M. Szadek, Agnes van der Heide
Determining the prevalence of palliative needs and exploring screening accuracy of depression and anxiety items of the integrated palliative care outcome scale – a multi-centre study
Bárbara Antunes, Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Irene J. Higginson, Pedro Lopes Ferreira
Ethical challenges in family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer – a qualitative study
Anneke Ullrich, Marianna Theochari, Corinna Bergelt, Gabriella Marx, Katharina Woellert, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle
Equity and the financial costs of informal caregiving in palliative care: a critical debate
Clare Gardiner, Jackie Robinson, Michael Connolly, Claire Hulme, Kristy Kang, Christine Rowland, Phil Larkin, David Meads, Tessa Morgan, Merryn Gott
Implementing volunteer-navigation for older persons with advanced chronic illness (Nav-CARE): a knowledge to action study
Barbara Pesut, Wendy Duggleby, Grace Warner, Emily Kervin, Paxton Bruce, Elisabeth Antifeau, Brenda Hooper
Understanding family caregivers’ needs to support relatives with advanced progressive disease at home: an ethnographic study in rural Portugal
Maria João Cardoso Teixeira, Wilson Abreu, Nilza Costa, Matthew Maddocks
End-of-life care in a pediatric intensive care unit: the impact of the development of a palliative care unit
Sara Bobillo-Perez, Susana Segura, Monica Girona-Alarcon, Aida Felipe, Monica Balaguer, Lluisa Hernandez-Platero, Anna Sole-Ribalta, Carmina Guitart, Iolanda Jordan, Francisco Jose Cambra
Systematic symptom and problem assessment at admission to the palliative care ward – perspectives and prognostic impacts
Anja Coym, Anneke Ullrich, Lisa Kathrin Hackspiel, Mareike Ahrenholz, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle
Adverse events in deceased hospitalised cancer patients as a measure of quality and safety in end-of-life cancer care
Ellinor Christin Haukland, Christian von Plessen, Carsten Nieder, Barthold Vonen
Spirituality alleviates the burden on family members caring for patients receiving palliative care exclusively
Paula Menis Vigna, Isac de Castro, Renata Rego Lins Fumis
Constructing stability - a classic grounded theory of next-of-kin in palliative cancer care
Carina Werkander Harstäde, Anna Sandgren
Supportive and palliative care indicators tool (SPICT™): content validity, feasibility and pre-test of the Italian version
Giuseppe Casale, Caterina Magnani, Renato Fanelli, Laura Surdo, Mauro Goletti, Kirsty Boyd, Daniela D’Angelo, Chiara Mastroianni, Maurizio Cancian, Marco Colotto, Antonella Di Giacomo, Giuseppe Fucito, Giorgio Gentili, Patrizia Latorre, Pierangelo Lora Aprile, Michele Massaro, Andrea Pace, Antonella Savarese, Simone Scarlata, Maria Consiglia Stefanelli, Adriana Turriziani
Barriers to advance care planning: a qualitative study of seriously ill Chinese patients and their families
Johnny T. K. Cheung, Doreen Au, Anthony H. F. Ip, Jenny Chan, Kenway Ng, Lok Cheung, Jacqueline Yuen, Elsie Hui, Jenny Lee, Raymond Lo, Jean Woo
Content validation of the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL with advanced cancer patients and health care professionals from palliative care services in Chile
Leslye Rojas-Concha, Maiken Bang Hansen, Morten Aagaard Petersen, Mogens Groenvold
Characterizing patients issued DNR orders who are ultimately discharged alive: a retrospective observational study in Japan
Tomoari Mori, Katsumi Mori, Eisuke Nakazawa, Seiji Bito, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Akira Akabayashi
Health and intention to leave the profession of nursing - which individual, social and organisational resources buffer the impact of quantitative demands? A cross-sectional study
Elisabeth Diehl, Sandra Rieger, Stephan Letzel, Anja Schablon, Albert Nienhaus, Luis Carlos Escobar Pinzon, Pavel Dietz
Characteristics and health related quality of life in a population with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a cross-sectional study
D. G. Bove, M. Lavesen, B. Lindegaard
Midazolam sedation in palliative medicine: retrospective study in a French center for cancer control
Vincent Gamblin, Vincent Berry, Emmanuelle Tresch-Bruneel, Michel Reich, Arlette Da Silva, Stéphanie Villet, Nicolas Penel, Chloé Prod’Homme
Relatives of deceased patients with metastatic lung cancer’s views on the achievement of treatment goals and the choice to start treatment: a structured telephone interview study
Adinda Mieras, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Annemarie Becker-Commissaris, Jose C. M. Bos, H. Roeline W. Pasman
Palliative care in its own discourse: a focused ethnography of professional messaging in palliative care
Carla Reigada, Maria Arantzamendi, Carlos Centeno
Should analyses of large, national palliative care data sets with patient reported outcomes (PROs) be restricted to services with high patient participation? A register-based study
Maiken Bang Hansen, Morten Aagaard Petersen, Lone Ross, Mogens Groenvold
Health- and social care in the last year of life among older adults in Sweden
Jenny Hallgren, Linda Johansson, Christina Lannering, Marie Ernsth Bravell, Catharina Gillsjö
Negotiating the turning point in the transition from curative to palliative treatment: a linguistic analysis of medical records of dying patients
Laila Hov, Oddgeir Synnes, Guri Aarseth
Strengthening the spiritual domain in palliative care through a listening consultation service by spiritual caregivers in Dutch PaTz-groups: an evaluation study
Hanna T. Klop, Ian Koper, Bart P. M. Schweitzer, Esli Jongen, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Expanding the 3 Wishes Project for compassionate end-of-life care: a qualitative evaluation of local adaptations
Meredith Vanstone, Thanh H. Neville, Marilyn E. Swinton, Marina Sadik, France J. Clarke, Allana LeBlanc, Benjamin Tam, Alyson Takaoka, Neala Hoad, Jennifer Hancock, Sarah McMullen, Brenda Reeve, William Dechert, Orla M. Smith, Gyan Sandhu, Julie Lockington, Deborah J. Cook
Hypernatremia at admission predicts poor survival in patients with terminal cancer: a retrospective cohort study
Min-Seok Seo, In Cheol Hwang, Jaehun Jung, Hwanhee Lee, Jae Hee Choi, Jae-Yong Shim
“The way I am treated is as if I am under my mother’s care”: qualitative study of patients’ experiences of receiving hospice care services in South Africa
Konstantina Vasileiou, Paula Smith, Ashraf Kagee
Perceptions and practices of spiritual care among hospice physicians and nurses in a Taiwanese tertiary hospital: a qualitative study
Zoe Tao, Poshu Wu, Amber Luo, Tzu-Lin Ho, Ching-Yu Chen, Shao-Yi Cheng
General practitioners’ perceptions of compassionate communities: a qualitative study
E. Abbey, C. Craig, C. R. Mayland
Factors affecting quality of end-of-life hospital care - a qualitative analysis of free text comments from the i-CODE survey in Norway
Marit Irene Tuen Hansen, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir, Anne Kvikstad, Catriona R. Mayland, Margrethe Aase Schaufel, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir, Marit Irene Tuen Hansen, Karl Ove Hufthammer, Wojciech Leppert, Katarzyna Wolszczak, Eduardo Garcia Yanneo, Vilma Tripodoro, Gabriel Goldraij, Martin Weber, Christina Gerlach, Lair Zambon, Juliana Nalin Passarini, Ivete Bredda Saad, John Ellershaw, Grace Ting, Catriona Mayland, Anne Kvikstad, Eva Gravdahl, Julia Bratke, Janet Bakken, Kristin Vassbotn Guldhav
An evaluation of continuous subcutaneous infusions across seven NHS acute hospitals: is there potential for 48-hour infusions?
J. Baker, A. Dickman, S. Mason, M. Bickerstaff, R. Jackson, A. McArdle, I. Lawrence, F. Stephenson, N. Paton, J. Kirk, B. Waters, J. Ellershaw
Pacific meets west in addressing palliative care for Pacific populations in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a qualitative study
Sunia Foliaki, Veisinia Pulu, Hayley Denison, Mark Weatherall, Jeroen Douwes
Assessment of the effects of a multi-component, individualized physiotherapy program in patients receiving hospice services in the home
Agnieszka Ćwirlej-Sozańska, Agnieszka Wójcicka, Edyta Kluska, Anna Stachoń, Anna Żmuda
Validation of the Japanese version of the barriers questionnaire II in cancer pain management: a cross-sectional study
Naoki Sakakibara, Hiroko Komatsu, Mikako Takahashi, Hideko Yamauchi, Teruo Yamauchi, Ardith Z. Doorenbos
Quality of life of patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma initiating first-line chemotherapy in routine practice
Berta Laquente, Teresa Macarulla, Cristina Bugés, Marta Martín, Carlos García, Carles Pericay, Sandra Merino, Laura Visa, Teresa Martín, Manuela Pedraza, Beatriz Carnero, Raquel Guardeño, Helena Verdaguer, Alejandro Mut, David Vilanova, Adelaida García
Introducing the trajectory Touchpoint technique: a systematic methodology for capturing the service experiences of palliative care patients and their families
Lynn Sudbury-Riley, Philippa Hunter-Jones, Ahmed Al-Abdin
Knowledge, attitude, confidence, and educational needs of palliative care in nurses caring for non-cancer patients: a cross-sectional, descriptive study
Sanghee Kim, Kyunghwa Lee, Sookyung Kim
An explorative analysis of the differences in levels of happiness between cancer patients, informal caregivers and the general population
Mayara Goulart de Camargos, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Marco Antônio de Oliveira, Paula de Souza Ferreira, Vinicius Tolentino Nardoto de Almeida, Sandra de Andrade Cadamuro, Carla Simone Leite de Almeida, Carlos Eduardo Paiva
A pilot evaluation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) program
Sharon Kaasalainen, Tamara Sussman, Genevieve Thompson, Lynn McCleary, Paulette V. Hunter, Lorraine Venturato, Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, Jenny Ploeg, Deborah Parker, Shane Sinclair, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, Marie Earl, John J. You
Communication of advance care planning decisions: a retrospective cohort study of documents in general practice
Laura Panozzo, Pam Harvey, Meagan-Jane Adams, Dennis O’Connor, Bernadette Ward
Living and dying with incurable cancer: a qualitative study on older patients’ life values and healthcare professionals’ responsivity
Jelle L. P. van Gurp, Anne Ebenau, Simone van der Burg, Jeroen Hasselaar
Development and usability testing of Understanding Stroke, a tailored life-sustaining treatment decision support tool for stroke surrogate decision makers
Emily P. Chen, Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, William Newhouse, Diane Egleston, Savina Sahgal, Aneesha Yande, Angela Fagerlin, Darin B. Zahuranec
Exploring the attitudes of health science students in Spain and Bolivia towards death. A cross sectional survey
Sagrario Pérez- de la Cruz, Ivonne Ramírez
Second opinions in medical oncology
Ian Olver, Mariko Carey, Jamie Bryant, Allison Boyes, Tiffany Evans, Rob Sanson-Fisher
Factors influencing the integration of a palliative approach in intensive care units: a systematic mixed-methods review
Hanan Hamdan Alshehri, Sepideh Olausson, Joakim Öhlén, Axel Wolf
Randomized control trial of advanced cancer patients at a private hospital in Kenya and the impact of dignity therapy on quality of life
John Weru, Miriam Gatehi, Alice Musibi
“Transition from children’s to adult services for adolescents/young adults with life-limiting conditions: developing realist programme theory through an international comparison”
Helen Kerr, Kimberley Widger, Geraldine Cullen-Dean, Jayne Price, Peter O’Halloran
Factors influencing GPs’ perception of specialised palliative homecare (SPHC) importance – results of a cross-sectional study
K. Stichling, M. Krause, B. Ditscheid, M. Hach, M. Jansky, M. Kaufmann, T. Lehmann, W. Meißner, F. Nauck, W. Schneider, S. Schulz, H. C. Vollmar, U. Wedding, J. Bleidorn, A. Freytag, Anna Bauer, Lia Bergmann, Bianka Ditscheid, Cornelia Eichhorn, Antje Freytag, Michaela Hach, Ulrike Hammer, Aicko Helbig, Beata Hennig, Maximiliane Jansky, Michelle Kaufmann, Markus Krause, Sabine Krauss, Thomas Lehmann, Helmut L’hoest, Srikanth Maddela, Ursula Marschall, Martial Mboulla, Winfried Meißner, Heiner Melching, Florian Mühler, Cornelia Nageler, Friedemann Nauck, Judith Rothaug, Joachim Saam, Werner Schneider, Sven Schulz, Kathleen Stichling, Horst C. Vollmar, Julia von Hayek, Ulrich Wedding, Marie-Luise Völker, Vivienne Kley, Jana Feustel, Ketura Herklotz
Differing needs of mothers and fathers during their child’s end-of-life care: secondary analysis of the “Paediatric end-of-life care needs” (PELICAN) study
Tanja Leemann, Eva Bergstraesser, Eva Cignacco, Karin Zimmermann
Exploring the costs, consequences and efficiency of three types of palliative care day services in the UK: a pragmatic before-and-after descriptive cohort study
Paul Mark Mitchell, Joanna Coast, Gareth Myring, Federico Ricciardi, Victoria Vickerstaff, Louise Jones, Shazia Zafar, Sarah Cudmore, Joanne Jordan, Laurie McKibben, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Anne M. Finucane, Alistair Hewison, Erna Haraldsdottir, Kevin Brazil, W. George Kernohan
Sense of support within the family: a cross-sectional study of family members in palliative home care
Anna Milberg, Maria Liljeroos, Rakel Wåhlberg, Barbro Krevers
Place of death associated with types of long-term care services near the end-of-life for home-dwelling older people in Japan: a pooled cross-sectional study
Kazuhiro Abe, Atsushi Miyawaki, Yasuki Kobayashi, Taeko Watanabe, Nanako Tamiya
Palliative care for nursing home patients with dementia: service evaluation and risk factors of mortality
Chih-Pang Chu, Cho-Yin Huang, Chian-Jue Kuo, Ying-Yeh Chen, Chun-Tse Chen, Tien-Wei Yang, Hsing-Cheng Liu
Developing and validating a questionnaire for mortality follow-back studies on end-of-life care and decision-making in a resource-poor Caribbean country
Nicholas Jennings, Kenneth Chambaere, Cheryl Cox Macpherson, Karen L. Cox, Luc Deliens, Joachim Cohen
Experiences of participation in bereavement groups from significant others’ perspectives; a qualitative study
Ulla Näppä, Kerstin Björkman-Randström
Virtual reality video promotes effectiveness in advance care planning
Wan-Ting Hsieh
Predictors and trajectories of ED visits among patients receiving palliative home care services: findings from a time series analysis (2013-2017)
Alberto Borraccino, Sara Campagna, Gianfranco Politano, Marco Dalmasso, Valerio Dimonte, Maria Michela Gianino
Palliative care delivery in residential aged care: bereaved family member experiences of the Supportive Hospice Aged Residential Exchange (SHARE) intervention
Rosemary Frey, Sophia Barham, Deborah Balmer, Michal Boyd, Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott
Investigation of the awareness of and demand for hospice care and attitudes towards life-sustaining treatment at the end of life among community residents in Hangzhou
Yanhong Xie, Ying Xu, Shulan Yang, Jing Yan, Xiao Qing Jin, Caixia Liu
Peer support to maintain psychological wellbeing in people with advanced cancer: findings from a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial
Catherine Walshe, Diane Roberts, Lynn Calman, Lynda Appleton, Robert Croft, Suzanne Skevington, Mari Lloyd-Williams, Gunn Grande, Guillermo Perez Algorta
Developing and testing a nurse-led intervention to support bereavement in relatives in the intensive care (BRIC study): a protocol of a pre-post intervention study
Margo M. C. van Mol, Sebastian Wagener, Jos M. Latour, Paul A. Boelen, Peter E. Spronk, Corstiaan A. den Uil, Judith A. C. Rietjens
Attitudes of registered nurses about the end – of – life care in multi-profile hospitals: a cross sectional survey
Aurelija Blaževičienė, Lina Laurs, Jamesetta A. Newland
Blessings or burdens: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study on the motivations and their impact on end-of-life caregiving among Asian family caregivers
Geraldine Tan-Ho, Ping Ying Choo, Paul Victor Patinadan, Casuarine Xinyi Low, Andy Hau Yan Ho
Perceptions of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and their informal caregivers on palliative care as a treatment option: a qualitative study
Catherine Sarfo-Walters, Edward Appiah Boateng
Collaborative advance care planning in advanced cancer patients: col-ACP –study – study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Carola Seifart, Martin Koch, Nico Leppin, Katharina Nagelschmidt, Jorge Riera Knorrenschild, Nina Timmesfeld, Winfried Rief, Pia von Blanckenburg
Better quality of end-of-life care for persons with advanced dementia in nursing homes compared to hospitals: a Swedish national register study
Lisa Martinsson, Staffan Lundström, Johan Sundelöf
Role of norms in variation in cancer centers’ end-of-life quality: qualitative case study protocol
Kristin E. Knutzen, Karen E. Schifferdecker, Genevra F. Murray, Shama S. Alam, Gabriel A. Brooks, Nirav S. Kapadia, Rebecca Butcher, Amber E. Barnato
Factors underlying surrogate medical decision-making in middle eastern and east Asian women: a Q-methodology study
Muhammad M. Hammami, Areej Al Balkhi, Sophia S. De Padua, Kafa Abuhdeeb
Using the technology acceptance model to explore health provider and administrator perceptions of the usefulness and ease of using technology in palliative care
M. Nguyen, J. Fujioka, K. Wentlandt, N. Onabajo, I. Wong, R. S. Bhatia, O. Bhattacharyya, V. Stamenova
Prospective cohort study of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives on the experienced quality of care and life (eQuiPe study): a study protocol
Janneke van Roij, Myrte Zijlstra, Laurien Ham, Linda Brom, Heidi Fransen, Art Vreugdenhil, Natasja Raijmakers, Lonneke van de Poll-Franse, Art Vreugdenhil, Maggy Youssef-ELSoud, Geert-Jan Creemers, Ben van den Borne, Wouter de Jong, Arnold Baars, Marieke van den Beuken - van Everdingen, Evelien Kuip, René Bunnik, Mathijs Hendriks, Caroline Mandigers, Jean-Paul van Basten, Vivian van Kampen – van den Boogaart, Philo Werner, Lia van Zuylen, Alexander de Graeff, Anne van Lindert, Marcel Soesan, Jarmo Hunting, Arno Smals, Linda van de Winkel, Gerben Stege, Liese Verhaert, Natascha Peters, Manon Pepels, Tineke Smilde, Peter Nieboer, Sander de Hosson, Marien den Boer, Cordula Pitz, Rick Heyne, Manuel Tjin-A-Ton, Annemieke van der Padt – Pruijsten, Paul van den Berg, Frans Krouwels, Lobke van Leeuwen-Snoeks, Femke van der Meer, Allert Vos, Gerrit Jan Veldhuis, Boelo Poppema, Martine Thijs-Visser, Roxane Heller-Baan, Marjolein van Laren, Karen Maassen van den Brink, Gea Douma, Jeroen Kloover, Dirkje Sommeijer, Lemke Pronk, Ellen Janssens - van Vliet, Lilly-Ann van der Velden, Emma Hafkamp, Henk Codrington, Svitlana Tarasevych, Aart van Bochove, Annemieke van der Padt – Pruijsten, Jaap de Boer, Geraldine Vink
Use of symptom-focused oncological cancer therapies in hospices: a retrospective analysis
Ulrich Kaiser, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Fabian Kück, Nicolae-Catalin Mechie, Ana Hoffmann, Florian Kaiser
Perceptions of palliative care in a South Asian community: findings from an observational study
Naheed Dosani, Ravi Bhargava, Amit Arya, Celeste Pang, Pavinder Tut, Achal Sharma, Martin Chasen
Cost-effectiveness analysis of systematic fast-track transition from oncological treatment to specialised palliative care at home for patients and their caregivers: the DOMUS trial
Christine Marie Bækø Halling, Rasmus Trap Wolf, Per Sjøgren, Hans Von Der Maase, Helle Timm, Christoffer Johansen, Jakob Kjellberg
Perception of cancer in patients diagnosed with the most common gastrointestinal cancers
Aleksandra Czerw, Urszula Religioni, Tomasz Banaś
Differences in perspectives of pediatricians on advance care planning: a cross-sectional survey
In Gyu Song, Sung Han Kang, Min Sun Kim, Cho Hee Kim, Yi Ji Moon, Jung Lee
Co-construction of the family-focused support conversation: a participatory learning and action research study to implement support for family members whose relatives are being discharged for end-of-life care at home or in a nursing home
Sue Duke, Natasha Campling, Carl R. May, Susi Lund, Neil Lunt, Gemma Bartlett, Lucy Harris, Elizabeth Flannery, Michael Connolly, Pam Booth, Gillian Galpin, Emma Wells, Elizabeth Price, Alison Faulkner-Butcher, Leanne Petch, Chris Ward, Alison Richardson
What do you mean by “palliative sedation”?
Alexander Kremling, Jan Schildmann
Supporting patient access to medicines in community palliative care: on-line survey of health professionals’ practice, perceived effectiveness and influencing factors
Sue Latter, Natasha Campling, Jacqueline Birtwistle, Alison Richardson, Michael I. Bennett, Sean Ewings, David Meads, Miriam Santer
“Teach for ethics in palliative care”: a mixed-method evaluation of a medical ethics training programme
Ludovica De Panfilis, Silvia Tanzi, Marta Perin, Elena Turola, Giovanna Artioli
Views of advanced cancer patients, families, and oncologists on initiating and engaging in advance care planning: a qualitative study
J. T. Toguri, L. Grant-Nunn, R. Urquhart
Designing a Mission statement Mobile app for palliative care: an innovation project utilizing design-thinking methodology
Rakhshan Kamran, Arianna Dal Cin
Instrumental and affective communication with patients with limited health literacy in the palliative phase of cancer or COPD
Janneke Noordman, Lotte Schulze, Ruud Roodbeen, Gudule Boland, Liesbeth M. van Vliet, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Sandra van Dulmen
South African paramedic perspectives on prehospital palliative care
Caleb Hanson Gage, Heike Geduld, Willem Stassen
Comparison of the experience of caregiving at end of life or in hastened death: a narrative synthesis review
Jane Lowers, Melissa Scardaville, Sean Hughes, Nancy J. Preston
A cluster randomized controlled trial on a multifaceted implementation strategy to promote integrated palliative care in COPD: study protocol of the COMPASSION study
Johanna M. C. Broese, Rianne M. J. J. van der Kleij, Huib A. M. Kerstjens, Els M. L. Verschuur, Yvonne Engels, Niels H. Chavannes
Development and validation of the cancer symptoms discrimination scale: a cross-sectional survey of students in Yunnan, China
Lin-sen Feng, Zheng-jiao Dong, Ruo-yu Yan, Chang-ling Tu, Lan-yu Zhang, Jiang-yun Shen, Shi-yu Zhang
Correction to: Content validation of the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL with advanced cancer patients and health care professionals from palliative care services in Chile
Leslye Rojas-Concha, Maiken Bang Hansen, Morten Aagaard Petersen, Mogens Groenvold
Patients’ experiences of eHealth in palliative care: an integrative review
Cecilia Widberg, Birgitta Wiklund, Anna Klarare
A mixed-method evaluation of a volunteer navigation intervention for older persons living with chronic illness (Nav-CARE): findings from a knowledge translation study
Barbara Pesut, Wendy Duggleby, Grace Warner, Paxton Bruce, Sunita Ghosh, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Cheryl Nekolaichuk, Jasneet Parmar
Impact on place of death in cancer patients: a causal exploration in southern Switzerland
Heidi Kern, Giorgio Corani, David Huber, Nicola Vermes, Marco Zaffalon, Marco Varini, Claudia Wenzel, André Fringer
Optimizing of a question prompt list to improve communication about the heart failure trajectory in patients, families, and health care professionals
Lisa Hjelmfors, Martje H. L. van der Wal, Maria Friedrichsen, Anna Milberg, Jan Mårtensson, Anna Sandgren, Anna Strömberg, Tiny Jaarsma
Phenomenological examinations of delirium in advanced cancer patients: exploratory structural equation modelling and latent profile analysis
Eun-Jung Shim, Hyeju Ha, Won-Hyoung Kim, Moon-Hee Lee, Jisun Park, Kwang-Min Lee, Kyung-Lak Son, Chan-Woo Yeom, Bong-Jin Hahm
Melatonin to prevent delirium in patients with advanced cancer: a double blind, parallel, randomized, controlled, feasibility trial
Peter G. Lawlor, Marie T. McNamara-Kilian, Alistair R. MacDonald, Franco Momoli, Sallyanne Tierney, Nathalie Lacaze-Masmonteil, Monidipa Dasgupta, Meera Agar, Jose L. Pereira, David C. Currow, Shirley H. Bush
The efficacy of specialised rehabilitation using the Op-reha Guide for cancer patients in palliative care units: protocol of a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (JORTC-RHB02)
Nanako Nishiyama, Yoshinobu Matsuda, Noriko Fujiwara, Keisuke Ariyoshi, Shunsuke Oyamada, Keiichi Narita, Ryouhei Ishii, Satoru Iwase
Family experiences with palliative care for children at home: a systematic literature review
Anette Winger, Lisbeth Gravdal Kvarme, Borghild Løyland, Camilla Kristiansen, Sølvi Helseth, Ingrid H. Ravn
Nothing to lose: a grounded theory study of patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perspectives of being involved in the consent process for oncology trials with non-curative intent
Mary Murphy, Eilís McCaughan, Matthew A Carson, Monica Donovan, Richard H Wilson, Donna Fitzsimons
Validation of the Palliative Prognostic Index, Performance Status–Based Palliative Prognostic Index and Chinese Prognostic Scale in a home palliative care setting for patients with advanced cancer in China
Jun Zhou, Sitao Xu, Ziye Cao, Jing Tang, Xiang Fang, Ling Qin, Fangping Zhou, Yuzhen He, Xueren Zhong, Mingcai Hu, Yan Wang, Fengjuan Lu, Yongzheng Bao, Xiangheng Dai, Qiang Wu
Talking about death and dying in a hospital setting - a qualitative study of the wishes for end-of-life conversations from the perspective of patients and spouses
Heidi Bergenholtz, Malene Missel, Helle Timm
Burnout and resilience among Canadian palliative care physicians
Cindy Wang, Pamela Grassau, Peter G. Lawlor, Colleen Webber, Shirley H. Bush, Bruno Gagnon, Monisha Kabir, Edward G. Spilg
Advancing pediatric palliative care in a low-middle income country: an implementation study, a challenging but not impossible task
Ximena Garcia-Quintero, Luis Gabriel Parra-Lara, Angelica Claros-Hulbert, Maria Isabel Cuervo-Suarez, Wendy Gomez-Garcia, Francois Desbrandes, Natalia Arias-Casais
Introducing cross-cultural education in palliative care: focus groups with experts on practical strategies
Imane Semlali, Emmanuel Tamches, Pascal Singy, Orest Weber
Continuous subcutaneous infusion for pain control in dying patients: experiences from a tertiary palliative care center
Per Fürst, Staffan Lundström, Pål Klepstad, Peter Strang
Support practices by an interdisciplinary team in a palliative-care unit for relatives of patients in agonal phase
M. Mélin, H. Amieva, M. Frasca, C. Ouvrard, V. Berger, H. Hoarau, C. Roumiguière, B. Paternostre, N. Stadelmaier, N. Raoux, V. Bergua, B. Burucoa
Is early integration of palliative home care in oncology treatment feasible and acceptable for advanced cancer patients and their health care providers? A phase 2 mixed-methods study
Naomi Dhollander, Tinne Smets, Aline De Vleminck, Lore Lapeire, Koen Pardon, Luc Deliens
How views of oncologists and haematologists impacts palliative care referral: a systematic review
Naveen Salins, Arunangshu Ghoshal, Sean Hughes, Nancy Preston
Physicians’ clinical prediction of survival in head and neck cancer patients in the palliative phase
Arta Hoesseini, Marinella P. J. Offerman, Bojou J. van de Wall-Neecke, Aniel Sewnaik, Marjan H. Wieringa, Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong
Patient-centered care during the last year of life: adaptation and validation of the German PACIC short form for bereaved persons as proxies (PACIC-S9-proxy)
Vera Vennedey, Gloria Dust, Nicolas Schippel, Arim Shukri, Julia Strupp, Christian Rietz, Raymond Voltz, Stephanie Stock
Validation and cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) for the Portuguese population
Bárbara Antunes, Pedro Lopes Ferreira
Exploration of the acceptability and usability of advance care planning tools in long term care homes
Tamara Sussman, Sharon Kaasalainen, Rennie Bimman, Harveer Punia, Nathaniel Edsell, Jess Sussman
Perceptions, knowledge and attitudes towards the concept and approach of palliative care amongst caregivers: a cross-sectional survey in Karachi, Pakistan
Sameena Shah, Faizan Qaisar, Iqbal Azam, Khairunnisa Mansoor
Professional oral care in end-of-life patients with advanced cancers in a hospice ward: improvement of oral conditions
Ting-Ying Wu, Hsiu-Yueh Liu, Chien-Yi Wu, Hung-Cheng Chen, Shun-Te Huang, Ping-Ho Chen
“No thanks, I don’t want to see snakes again”: a qualitative study of pain management versus preservation of cognition in palliative care patients
Pete Wegier, Jaymie Varenbut, Mark Bernstein, Peter G. Lawlor, Sarina R. Isenberg
Experiences with the Liverpool care pathway for the dying patient in nursing home residents: a mixed-method study to assess physicians’ and nurse practitioners’ perceptions
Maartje S. Klapwijk, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Monique A. A. Caljouw, Wilco P. Achterberg, Jenny T. van der Steen
Development of an international Core Outcome Set (COS) for best care for the dying person: study protocol
Sofia C. Zambrano, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Agnes van der Heide, Vilma A. Tripodoro, John Ellershaw, Carl Johan Fürst, Raymond Voltz, Stephen Mason, María L. Daud, Gustavo De Simone, Kerstin Kremeike, Svandis Iris Halfdanardottir, Valgerdur Sigurdardottir, Jeremy Johnson, Simon Allan, Haroon Hafeez, Catarina Simões, Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir, Birgit H. Rasmussen, Paula Williamson, Steffen Eychmüller, A. van der Heide, E. Geijteman, L. van Zuylen, K. van der Rijt, I. Korfage, A. Goossensen, H. van der Kuy, B. Yildiz, E. Elsten, J. Ellershaw, R. M. Smeding, S. Mason, T. Mc Glinchey, R. Hughes, R. Voltz, J. Strupp, M. Joshi, C. J. Furst, B. Rasmussen, M. Schelin, U. Lunder, H. Kodba-Čeh, M. Bakan, S. Eychmüller, S. C. Zambrano, N. Lüthi, M. Egloff, A. Christen, M. Martin Rosello, P. Barnestein Fonseca, I. Ruiz, D. R. F. Haugen, K. Sigurdardottir, K. Solvag, G. Skorpen Iversen, V. Sigurdardottir, S. I. Halfdánardottir, V. Tripodoro, A. Goossensen, J. Simon, C. Fisher, M. Berger, S. Allan, M. Boughey
A non-lab nomogram of survival prediction in home hospice care patients with gastrointestinal cancer
Muqing Wang, Xubin Jing, Weihua Cao, Yicheng Zeng, Chaofen Wu, Weilong Zeng, Wenxia Chen, Xi Hu, Yanna Zhou, Xianbin Cai
Caregiver burden among informal caregivers in the largest specialized palliative care unit in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
Zati Sabrina Ahmad Zubaidi, Farnaza Ariffin, Cindy Teoh Cy Oun, Diana Katiman
Quality indicators for the evaluation of end-of-life care in Germany – a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of statutory health insurance data
Katharina van Baal, Sophie Schrader, Nils Schneider, Birgitt Wiese, Jona Theodor Stahmeyer, Sveja Eberhard, Siegfried Geyer, Stephanie Stiel, Kambiz Afshar
Hospice care self-efficacy among clinical medical staff working in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) isolation wards of designated hospitals: a cross–sectional study
Ze-hong Zheng, Zhong-chen Luo, You Zhang, Wallace Chi Ho Chan, Jian-qiong Li, Jin Pang, Yu-ling Jia, Jiao Tang