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  1. Despite increasing recognition of the role played by palliative care (PC) services, the priorities of policymakers in supporting PC remain unclear and have sometimes engendered controversy. There are few studi...

    Authors: Hammoda Abu-Odah, Alex Molassiotis and Justina Yat Wa Liu
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:43
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  2. Subcutaneous infusion (SC) or hypodermoclysis is an old perfusion technique that is often used off-label although it has been shown to be effective. Acetaminophen (paracetamol) subcutaneous injection is perfor...

    Authors: Joe El Khoury, Sani Hlais, Mariana Helou, Marie-Claire Mouhawej, Serge Barmo, Patricia Fadel and Aline Tohme
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:42
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  3. Early identification of patients who require palliative and supportive care at the general palliative care level is challenging. The Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™) might provide a helpfu...

    Authors: Heidi Bergenholtz, Anna Weibull and Mette Raunkiær
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:41
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  4. Nurses have an essential role in providing high-quality palliative care to patients and their families. Hence, they require adequate palliative care education. However, there is only limited insight into how f...

    Authors: Minna Hökkä, Juho T. Lehto, Helvi Kyngäs and Tarja Pölkki
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:40
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  5. Research suggests palliative care to be translated and integrated in non-specialized palliative care services throughout the palliative care continuum across populations and settings. A need has been identifie...

    Authors: Joakim Öhlén, Susanna Böling, Hanan HamdanAlshehri, Margareta Brännström, Ingela Henoch, Eva Hessman, Stefan Nilsson and Anneli Ozanne
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:39
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  6. Personal last wishes of people facing a life-limiting illness may change closer to death and may vary across different forms of specialist palliative care (SPC).

    Authors: Anneke Ullrich, Wiebke Hollburg, Holger Schulz, Sven Goldbach, Annette Rommel, Marten Müller, Denise Kirsch, Katrin Kopplin-Foertsch, Julia Messerer, Louise König, Frank Schulz-Kindermann, Carsten Bokemeyer and Karin Oechsle
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:38
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  7. An advanced cancer patient’s life is often disturbed by fear of cancer recurrence, cancer progress, approaching suffering, and fear of dying. Consequently, the role of the medical oncologist is not only to pro...

    Authors: Jacqueline van Meurs, Wyke Stommel, Carlo Leget, Joep van de Geer, Evelien Kuip, Kris Vissers, Yvonne Engels and Anne Wichmann
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:37
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:70

  9. Despite the increasing longevity of the world’s population, with an unprecedented rise in the number of people who need palliative care (PC), there has been sparse research regarding palliative care for older ...

    Authors: Gerd Ahlström, Hongli Huang, Yu Luo, Christina Bökberg, Birgit H. Rasmussen, Eva I. Persson, Lian Xue, Le Cai, Pingfen Tang, Magnus Persson and Jingjing Huang
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:35
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  10. Advanced oncological disease requires comprehensive health care, although attention is predominantly paid to the physical dimension of care. The consideration of personal positioning encompasses other dimensio...

    Authors: Hellen Luiza Meireles Silva, Pedro Henrique Martins Valério, Cristiano Roque Antunes Barreira and Fernanda Maris Peria
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:34
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  12. Palliative care is identified internationally as a priority for efficacious dementia care. Research into “effective models” of palliative care for people with dementia has been recommended by several European ...

    Authors: Niamh O’Connor, Siobhan Fox, W George Kernohan, Jonathan Drennan, Suzanne Guerin, Aileen Murphy and Suzanne Timmons
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:32
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  13. Children’s palliative and end of life care is underpinned internationally by a commitment to provide care and support in the family’s preferred place, which may include home, hospital or hospice. Limited evide...

    Authors: Cari Malcolm and Katherine Knighting
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:31
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  14. Anticipatory grief has been shown to be highly prevalent among family caregivers of patients with advanced illness. Qualitative study suggests that illness uncertainty may be one of the core characteristics of...

    Authors: Jiaojiao Li, Di Sun, Xu Zhang, Lihua Zhao, Yanling Zhang, Hongmei Wang, Ni Ni and Guichun Jiang
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:30
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  15. Advance care planning, the process through which patient values and goals are explored and documented, is a core quality indicator in cancer care. However, patient values are predominantly elicited at the end ...

    Authors: Kathleen A. Lynch, Camila Bernal, Danielle R. Romano, Paul Shin, Judith E. Nelson, Molly Okpako, Kelley Anderson, Elizabeth Cruz, Anjali V. Desai, Virginia M. Klimek and Andrew S. Epstein
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:29
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  16. The integration of palliative care into routine cancer care has allowed for improved symptom control, relationship building and goal setting for patients and families. This study aimed to assess the efficacy o...

    Authors: Rajvi Shah, Ekavi N. Georgousopoulou, Ziad Al-Rubaie, Merlina Sulistio, Hoong Tee, Adelaide Melia and Natasha Michael
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:28
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  17. This study anlyzed whether family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer suffer impaired sleep quality, increased strain, reduced quality of life or increased care burden due to the presence and heightene...

    Authors: Inmaculada Valero-Cantero, Cristina Casals, Yolanda Carrión-Velasco, Francisco Javier Barón-López, Francisco Javier Martínez-Valero and María Ángeles Vázquez-Sánchez
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:27
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  18. Respite care provides caregiving support to people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and their care partners by providing the care partner with temporary relief from their caregiving duties. The aim of ...

    Authors: Julia M. Wu, Mallorie T. Tam, Kirsten Buch, Fouziah Khairati, Laurissa Wilson, Elizabeth Bannerman, Alexandra Guerrero, Andrew Eisen, Wendy Toyer, Travis Stevenson and Julie M. Robillard
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:26
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  19. With the growing aging population and high prevalence of chronic illnesses, there is an increasing demand for palliative care. In the US state of Indiana, an estimated 6.3 million people are living with one or...

    Authors: Nasreen Lalani and Yun Cai
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:25
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  22. Emergency department (ED) visits among older adults are common near the end of life. Palliative care has been shown to reduce ED visits and to increase quality of life among patients, but recruitment into thes...

    Authors: Julia Brickey, Mara Flannery, Allison Cuthel, Jeanne Cho and Corita R. Grudzen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:22
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  23. Advance Care Planning (ACP) enables physicians to align healthcare with patients’ wishes, reduces burdensome life-prolonging medical interventions, and potentially improves the quality of life of patients in t...

    Authors: Yvonne A. C. Bekker, Ankie F. Suntjens, Y. Engels, H. Schers, Gert P. Westert and A. Stef Groenewoud
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:21
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  24. Chemotherapy use closer to the end of life is a marker of poor-quality care. There are now multiple studies and local reviews addressing this issue. Understanding the practice locally will give valuable insigh...

    Authors: Indryas Woldie, Tarek Elfiki, Swati Kulkarni, Colvin Springer, Eric McArthur and Nicole Freeman
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:20
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  26. A casemix classification based on patients’ needs can serve to better describe the patient group in palliative care and thus help to develop adequate future care structures and enable national benchmarking and...

    Authors: Farina Hodiamont, Caroline Schatz, Daniela Gesell, Reiner Leidl, Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Friedemann Nauck, Julia Wikert, Maximiliane Jansky, Steven Kranz and Claudia Bausewein
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:18
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  27. Pain, breathlessness and fatigue are some of the most challenging symptoms to manage in patients with advanced disease. Specialist palliative care leads to better symptom management, but factors contributing t...

    Authors: Emma J. Chapman, Simon Pini, Zoe Edwards, Yousuf Elmokhallalati, Fliss E. M. Murtagh and Michael I. Bennett
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:17
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  28. Nurses must have spiritual competence to provide holistic patient care. Therefore, the designed instrument to assess nurses’ competence could be a practical guide for health care professionals. This study aim...

    Authors: Hui-Fen Fang, Henny Dwi Susanti, Lindelwa Portia Dlamini, Nae-Fang Miao and Min-Huey Chung
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:16
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  29. Palliative medicine is a newly developing field in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of internal medicine residents providing end-o...

    Authors: Thana Harhara, Dana Abdul Hay, Dalal S. Almansoori and Halah Ibrahim
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:15
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  30. Hospital facilities in China are experiencing increased strain on existing systems and medical resources, necessitating the use of home-based hospice and palliative care (HBHPC). HBHPC primarily relies on comm...

    Authors: Jinxin Zhang, Yingjuan Cao, Mingzhu Su, Joyce Cheng and Nengliang Yao
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:14
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:103

  31. In Indonesia, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are a contributing factor to mortality with most cases involving heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease and diabetes. Accordingly, the identification of palli...

    Authors: Christantie Effendy, Jony Francisco Dos Santos Silva and Retna Siwi Padmawati
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:13
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:19

  32. In palliative care, sleep and circadian rhythm problems are common symptoms. Nonpharmacological interventions are available; however, health care providers are not aware of these or lack the knowledge to effec...

    Authors: Elizabeth Capezuti, Rana Sagha Zadeh, Michael Ames Brigham, Brooke Ana Dias, Benjamin Chanhee Kim, Evie Lengetti, Belle Erikson, Nancy Swezey and Ana C. Krieger
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:12
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  33. Depression is prevalent in people with very poor prognoses (days to weeks). Clinical practices and perceptions of palliative physicians towards depression care have not been characterised in this setting. The ...

    Authors: Wei Lee, Sungwon Chang, Michelle DiGiacomo, Brian Draper, Meera R. Agar and David C. Currow
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:11
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  34. In the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, general and specialist Palliative Care (PC) plays an essential role in health care, contributing to symptom control, psycho-social support, and providing support in complex decision...

    Authors: C. Bausewein, F. Hodiamont, N. Berges, A. Ullrich, C. Gerlach, K. Oechsle, B. Pauli, J. Weber, S. Stiel, N. Schneider, N. Krumm, R. Rolke, C. Gebel, M. Jansky, F. Nauck, U. Wedding…
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:10
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  35. Medically frail and/or chronically ill patients are often admitted to Danish hospitals without documentation of patient preferences. This may lead to inappropriate care. Modelled on the American Physician Orde...

    Authors: Lone Doris Tuesen, Hans-Henrik Bülow, Anne Sophie Ågård, Sverre Mainz Strøm, Erik Fromme and Hanne Irene Jensen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:9
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  36. Intervention fidelity is imperative to ensure confidence in study results and intervention replication in research and clinical settings. Like many brief protocol psychotherapies, Dignity Therapy lacks suffici...

    Authors: Tasha M. Schoppee, Lisa Scarton, Susan Bluck, Yingwei Yao, Gail Keenan, Virginia Samuels, George Fitchett, George Handzo, Harvey M. Chochinov, Linda L. Emanuel and Diana J. Wilkie
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:8
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  37. In acute-care hospitals, patients treated in an ICU for surgical reasons or sudden deterioration are treated in an outpatient ward, ICU, and other multiple departments. It is unclear how healthcare providers a...

    Authors: Kanako Yamamoto, Yuki Yonekura and Kazuhiro Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:7
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  39. Older advanced stage cancer patients, with changes in nutritional status, represent an important demand for palliative care. The aim was to determine the effects of 4 weeks of chocolate consumption on the nutr...

    Authors: Josiane C. Vettori, Luanda G. da-Silva, Karina Pfrimer, Alceu A. Jordão, Paulo Louzada-Junior, Júlio C. Moriguti, Eduardo Ferriolli and Nereida K. C. Lima
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:5
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  40. An integrated care network between emergency, specialized and primary care services can prevent repeated hospitalizations and the institutionalized death of terminally ill patients in palliative care (PC). To ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Resende Boaventura, Juliana Dias Reis Pessalacia, Aridiane Alves Ribeiro, Fabiana Bolela de Souza, Priscila Kelly da Silva Neto and Maristela Rodrigues Marinho
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:4
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  41. Denmark is considered one of the World’s most secular societies, and spiritual matters are rarely verbalized in public. Patients report that their spiritual needs are not cared for sufficiently. For studying s...

    Authors: Sara Stage Voetmann, Niels Christian Hvidt and Dorte Toudal Viftrup
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:3
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  42. There is a lack of research to guide the implementation of voluntary assisted dying legislation within a hospice setting. Furthermore, there is limited published information related to the expectations of the ...

    Authors: Kirsten Auret, Terri Pikora and Kate Gersbach
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:2
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  43. Needs assessment tools can facilitate healthcare professionals in timely recognition of palliative care needs. Despite the increased attention for implementation of such tools, most studies provide little or n...

    Authors: Stephanie M. C. Ament, Lisette M. van den Broek, Marieke H. J. van den Beuken-van Everdingen, Josiane J. J. Boyne, José M. C. Maessen, Sebastiaan C. A. M. Bekkers, Louise Bellersen, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Yvonne Engels and Daisy J. A. Janssen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:1
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  44. Worldwide, millions of people with advanced cancer and their family caregivers are experiencing physical and psychological distress. Psychosocial support and education can reduce distress and prevent avoidable...

    Authors: Orphé Matthys, Aline De Vleminck, Sigrid Dierickx, Luc Deliens, Vincent Van Goethem, Lore Lapeire, Mogens Groenvold, Line Lund, Caroline Moeller Arnfeldt, Lisa Sengeloev, Helle Pappot, Anna Thit Johnsen, Suzanne Guerin, Philip J. Larkin, Catherine Jordan, Michael Connolly…
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:193
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  45. Despite national recommendations, disparities in specialised palliative care (SPC) admittance have been reported. The aims of this study were to characterize SPC admittance in patients with pancreatic cancer i...

    Authors: Mathilde Adsersen, Inna Markovna Chen, Louise Skau Rasmussen, Julia Sidenius Johansen, Mette Nissen, Mogens Groenvold and Kristoffer Marsaa
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:192
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  46. Existential distress is a significant source of suffering for patients facing life-threatening illness. Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (PAT) are novel treatments that have shown promise in treating existential...

    Authors: Halsey Niles, Colleen Fogg, Ben Kelmendi and Mark Lazenby
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:191
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  47. The increasing burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in developing countries is driving attention to palliative care services. Identification of disease-specific symptoms of concern and their prevalence ...

    Authors: Tolcha Kebebew, Azwihangwisi Helen Mavhandu-Mudzusi and Annah Mosalo
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:190
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  48. In this paper we assess the quality of six deliberative stakeholder consultations regarding the implementation of a precision diagnostic for life-threatening pediatric brain tumors. Decision makers who base po...

    Authors: Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Cristina Longo, Justin Gagnon, Conrad Fernandez and Gillian Bartlett
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:189
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. The aging population coupled with progressive medical technology has increased the demand for improved quality of end-of-life in China. However, implementation of an advance care planning (ACP) program in main...

    Authors: Bingyu Xing, Guanmian Liang, Jing Zhang, Jinsheng Zhang, Zhizhi Jiang and Qunfang Miao
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:187
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