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  1. Access to high-quality palliative care is inadequate for most people living and dying with serious illness. Policies aimed at optimising delivery of palliative and end of life care are an important mechanism t...

    Authors: Katherine E. Sleeman, Anna Timms, Juliet Gillam, Janet E. Anderson, Richard Harding, Elizabeth L. Sampson and Catherine J. Evans
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:108
  2. The modern hospice movement is often recognised as a social movement. However, such understanding is primarily based on historic reflection and this approach has lacked theoretical exploration. There is a lack...

    Authors: Kuai In Tam, Elaine Haycock-Stuart and Sarah J. Rhynas
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:105
  3. There is very limited evidence on the existence of cancer-related perceived stigma and self-blame among patients with advanced cancer in Asia, and how they are associated with psychosocial outcomes. This study...

    Authors: Nguyen Tuong Pham, Jia Jia Lee, Nhu Hiep Pham, Thi Do Quyen Phan, Khoa Tran, Hoai Bao Dang, Irene Teo, Chetna Malhotra, Eric A. Finkelstein and Semra Ozdemir
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:104
  4. End-stage cardiac and respiratory diseases are common in the UK. People with these end-stage conditions experience similar, or even worse, symptomatic suffering to cancer patients but are less likely to receiv...

    Authors: Hannah J. Fairlamb and Fliss E. M. Murtagh
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:103
  5. At the time of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, little was known about how effective our regular end-of-life care strategies would be for patients dying from COVID-19 in hospitals. The aim of...

    Authors: Lisa Martinsson, Jonas Bergström, Christel Hedman, Peter Strang and Staffan Lundström
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:102
  6. The extension of palliative care services to meet the needs of patients with chronic non-malignant life-limiting conditions faces misconceptions amongst healthcare professionals. A study of prevailing percepti...

    Authors: Jason Tay, Scott Compton, Gillian Phua, Qingyuan Zhuang, Shirlyn Neo, Guozhang Lee, Limin Wijaya, Min Chiam, Natalie Woong and Lalit Krishna
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:101
  7. Patients with cancer commonly experience pain and suffering at the end of life days. Community-based palliative care can improve the quality of life of terminally-ill cancer patients and provide them with a me...

    Authors: Suzanne Hojjat-Assari, Maryam Rassouli, Maxwell Madani and Heshmatolah Heydari
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:100
  8. Nursing homes are likely to become increasingly important as end-of-life care facilities. Previous studies indicate that individuals residing in these facilities have a high prevalence of end-of-life symptoms ...

    Authors: Emilio Mota-Romero, Ana Alejandra Esteban-Burgos, Daniel Puente-Fernández, María Paz García-Caro, Cesar Hueso-Montoro, Raquel Mercedes Herrero-Hahn and Rafael Montoya-Juárez
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:98
  9. Advance care planning (ACP), a process of communication about patients’ preferences for future medical care, should be initiated in a timely manner. Ideally situated for this initiation is the general practiti...

    Authors: Julie Stevens, Peter Pype, Kim Eecloo, Luc Deliens, Koen Pardon and Aline De Vleminck
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:97
  10. Transitioning into palliative care is psychologically demanding for people with advanced cancer, and there is a need for acceptable and effective interventions to support this. We aimed to develop and pilot te...

    Authors: Nicholas J. Hulbert-Williams, Sabrina F. Norwood, David Gillanders, Anne M. Finucane, Juliet Spiller, Jenny Strachan, Susan Millington, Joseph Kreft and Brooke Swash
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:96
  11. Views on advance care planning (ACP) has shifted from a focus solely on treatment decisions at the end-of-life and medically orientated advanced directives to encouraging conversations on personal values and l...

    Authors: Natasha Michael, Clare O’Callaghan, Ekavi Georgousopoulou, Adelaide Melia, Merlina Sulistio and David Kissane
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:95
  12. To date, the establishment and development of palliative day-care clinics and day hospices in Germany have been completely unsystematic. Research is needed to gain insight into these services and to ensure the...

    Authors: Franziska A. Herbst, Stephanie Stiel, Kathrin Damm, Lea de Jong, Jona T. Stahmeyer and Nils Schneider
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:94
  13. Population ageing, an emphasis on home-based care of palliative patients and policies aimed at prolonging participation in the labour market are placing a growing demand on working family caregivers. This stud...

    Authors: Femmy M. Bijnsdorp, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Cécile R.L. Boot, Allard J. van der Beek, Hanna T. Klop and H. Roeline W. Pasman
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:93
  14. It is widely recognised, that family members are central to care of people with advanced illness, and that support should be provided to all family members in need thereof. The aim of this study was to investi...

    Authors: Anna O’Sullivan, Anette Alvariza, Joakim Öhlén and Cecilia Larsdotter
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:92
  15. Palliative care focuses on identifying, from a holistic perspective, the needs of those experiencing problems associated with life-threatening illnesses. As older people approach the end of their lives, they c...

    Authors: M. Sjöberg, A.-K. Edberg, B. H. Rasmussen and I. Beck
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:91
  16. End-of-life care preferences may be highly individual, heterogenic, and variable according to culture and belief. This study aimed to explore preferences and factors associated with end-of-life care among Thai...

    Authors: Jarurin Pitanupong and Sahawit Janmanee
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:90
  17. As the demand for palliative care increases, more information is needed on how efficient different types of palliative care models are for providing care to dying patients and their caregivers. Evidence on the...

    Authors: Xhyljeta Luta, Baptiste Ottino, Peter Hall, Joanna Bowden, Bee Wee, Joanne Droney, Julia Riley and Joachim Marti
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:89
  18. Palliative care can be demanding and stressful for providers. There is increasing recognition in the literature of the impact of caregiving in palliative care settings, including compassion fatigue and compass...

    Authors: Manal Hassan Baqeas, Jenny Davis and Beverley Copnell
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:88
  19. Since the establishment of a hospice in the year 2000 and the development of a palliative care ward in 2019, there is no study examining public’s knowledge of palliative care, nor preference of end of life car...

    Authors: Kuai In Tam, Sok Leng Che, Mingxia Zhu and Sok Man Leong
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:87
  20. ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) is a nurse coach-led, early palliative care model for patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. Content covered includes problem-solving, ad...

    Authors: Grace Meijuan Yang, J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Yi Han Foo, Ariel Hui Mei Chung, Nur Haidah Ahmad Kamal, Laurence Tan, Chou Chuen Yu, Le Mai Khanh, Audrey Rui Xuan Koh, Irene Teo, Sungwon Yoon and Marie Bakitas
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:86
  21. Assessing the quality of structure and process of end-of-life care can help improve outcomes. There was currently no valid tool for this purpose in Mainland China. The aim of this study is to validate the Chin...

    Authors: Juanjuan Zhao, Liming You, Hongmei Tao and Frances Kam Yuet Wong
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:85
  22. Palliative care education has been carried out in some hospitals and palliative care has gradually developed in mainland China. However, the clinical research is sparse and whether primary palliative care educ...

    Authors: Qian Liu, Mingzhao Qin, Jian Zhou, Hui Zheng, Weiping Liu and Qi Shen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:84
  23. Studies in the West have demonstrated that appropriate informational support is a vital component of cancer care, with positive effects on both patients and their informal caregivers. Since little is known abo...

    Authors: Tao Wang, Alex Molassiotis, Betty Pui Man Chung, Si-Lin Zheng, Hou-Qiang Huang and Jing-Yu (Benjamin) Tan
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:83
  24. Adult patients with hematologic malignancies are less likely to receive palliative care and more likely to accept intensive anti-cancer treatments until end-of-life than those with solid tumors, but limited da...

    Authors: Nobuyuki Yotani, Daisuke Shinjo, Motohiro Kato, Kimikazu Matsumoto, Kiyohide Fushimi and Yoshiyuki Kizawa
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:82
  25. In the Netherlands, healthcare professionals attending patients in the last phase of life, can consult an expert palliative care team (PCT) in case of complex problems. There are two types of PCTs: regional PC...

    Authors: Marijanne Engel, Arianne Stoppelenburg, Andrée van der Ark, Floor M. Bols, Johannis Bruggeman, Ellen C.J. Janssens-van Vliet, Johanna H. Kleingeld-van der Windt, Ingrid E. Pladdet, Angelique E.M.J. To-Baert, Lia van Zuylen and Agnes van der Heide
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:81
  26. Patients with advanced disease may not be invited to participate in research based on the assumption that participation would be too burdensome for them. The aim of this study was to explore how patients with ...

    Authors: Karolina Vlckova, Kristyna Polakova, Anna Tuckova, Adam Houska and Martin Loucka
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:80
  27. Based on the case of palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands, this paper presents an analysis of frames and counter-frames used in the ongoing public debate about these two intertwined topics. Each (...

    Authors: Baldwin Van Gorp, Gert Olthuis, Anneleen Vandekeybus and Jelle van Gurp
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:79
  28. In recent years, spiritual well-being has gradually gained the attention of health care providers in China, especially those in oncology departments, who have recognized the importance of improving spiritual w...

    Authors: Yue Feng, Xingcan Liu, Tangwei Lin, Biru Luo, Qianqian Mou, Jianhua Ren and Jing Chen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:78
  29. Advance care planning (ACP) enables persons to identify preferences for future treatment and care, and to discuss, record and review these preferences. However, the uptake of ACP among patients with chronic di...

    Authors: Doris van der Smissen, Judith A. C. Rietjens, Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen, Sandra van Dulmen, Agnes van der Heide and Ida J. Korfage
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:77
  30. In Colombia, recent legislation regarding end-of-life decisions includes palliative sedation, advance directives and euthanasia. We analysed which aspects influence health professionals´ decisions regarding en...

    Authors: Angela Luna-Meza, Natalia Godoy-Casasbuenas, José Andrés Calvache, Eduardo Díaz-Amado, Fritz E. Gempeler Rueda, Olga Morales, Fabian Leal, Carlos Gómez-Restrepo and Esther de Vries
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:76
  31. Previous research shows that many cancer-bereaved youths report unresolved grief several years after the death of a parent. Grief work hypothesis suggests that, in order to heal, the bereaved needs to process ...

    Authors: Tove Bylund-Grenklo, Dröfn Birgisdóttir, Kim Beernaert, Tommy Nyberg, Viktor Skokic, Jimmie Kristensson, Gunnar Steineck, Carl Johan Fürst and Ulrika Kreicbergs
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:75

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:99

  32. Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) has been frequently used to estimate the survival time of palliative care patients. The objective was to determine the associations between the PPS and survival time among ca...

    Authors: Patcharaporn Prompantakorn, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Kanokporn Pinyopornpanish, Lalita Chutarattanakul, Chanchanok Aramrat, Chanapat Pateekhum and Nisachol Dejkriengkraikul
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:74
  33. Although the importance of palliative care in pediatric patients has been emphasized, many health care providers have difficulty determining when patients should be referred to the palliative care team. The Pa...

    Authors: In Gyu Song, Seung Yeon Kwon, Yoon Jung Chang, Min Sun Kim, Sung Hoon Jeong, Seung Min Hahn, Kyu Tae Han, So-Jung Park and Jin Young Choi
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:73
  34. Family caregivers need to be supported in caring for patients at the end of life, but practical tools to assess their support needs have been missing in China. So this study aimed to culturally adapt and valid...

    Authors: Sijia Zhou, Qianqian Zhao, Huimin Weng, Ning Wang, Xia Wu, Xinxin Li and Lili Zhang
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:71
  35. Palliative care has proven over time that it can help prolong life spans with the use of hospices. The literature reports that most patients with cancer are diagnosed in the later stages and since there is no ...

    Authors: Maria Wajid, Eslavath Rajkumar, J. Romate, Allen Joshua George, R. Lakshmi and Srinagesh Simha
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:70
  36. Quality of life and patient self-determination are key elements in successful palliative care. To achieve these goals, a robust prediction of the remaining survival time is useful as it can provide patients an...

    Authors: Johannes Just, Marie-Therese Schmitz, Ulrich Grabenhorst, Thomas Joist, Kirsten Horn, Bettina Engel and Klaus Weckbecker
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:69
  37. Deciding to withdraw non-invasive ventilation (NIV) at end-of-life (EOL) in patients with chronic respiratory failure is a challenge. The European Association for Palliative Care recommends not maintaining art...

    Authors: V. Guastella, G. Piwko, A. Greil, C. Lambert and A. Lautrette
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:68

    The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2023 22:18

  38. According to the European Association for Palliative Care, decisions regarding palliative sedation should not be made in response to requests for assisted dying, such as euthanasia or assisted suicide. However...

    Authors: Martyna Tomczyk, Nathalie Dieudonné-Rahm and Ralf J. Jox
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:67
  39. Informal caregivers of critically ill patients in intensive care unit (ICUs) experience negative psychological sequelae that worsen after death. We synthesized outcomes reported from ICU bereavement interventi...

    Authors: Stephana J. Moss, Krista Wollny, Therese G. Poulin, Deborah J. Cook, Henry T. Stelfox, Amanda Roze des Ordons and Kirsten M. Fiest
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:66
  40. Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) bereaved by the death of a parent or sibling from cancer report unique psychosocial needs and can have difficulty adjusting to their loss. Unaddressed, this can result in po...

    Authors: Pandora Patterson, Fiona E. J. McDonald, Elizabeth Kelly-Dalgety, Bianca Lavorgna, Barbara L. Jones, Anna E. Sidis and Thomasin Powell
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:64
  41. Cancer is a leading cause of death in Korea. To protect the autonomy and dignity of terminally ill patients, the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision-Making Act (LST-Act) came into full effect in Korea in Februa...

    Authors: Hyeyeong Kim, Hyeon-Su Im, Kyong Og Lee, Young Joo Min, Jae-Cheol Jo, Yunsuk Choi, Yoo Jin Lee, Daseul Kang, Changyoung Kim, Su-Jin Koh and Jaekyung Cheon
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:63
  42. Team-based and timely integrated palliative care is a gold standard of care in oncology, but issues concerning its optimal organization remain. Palliative Care in Day-Hospital (PCDH) could be one of the most e...

    Authors: Laura Thery, Amélie Anota, Lorraine Waechter, Celine Laouisset, Timothee Marchal, Alexis Burnod, Elisabeth Angellier, Oum El Kheir Djoumakh, Clemence Thebaut, Anne Brédart, Sylvie Dolbeault, Jean-Christophe Mino and Carole Bouleuc
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:61
  43. Inequities in the provision of palliative care for people with cardiac disease have been well documented in the literature. Despite experiencing significant palliative care needs, those with cardiac disease ar...

    Authors: Jackie Robinson, Caitlin Pilbeam, Hetty Goodwin, Deborah Raphael, Susan Waterworth and Merryn Gott
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:60
  44. The goal of palliative care is to prevent and alleviate a suffering of incurable ill patients. A continuous intersectoral palliative care is important. The aim of this study is to analyse the continuity of pal...

    Authors: Laura Rehner, Kilson Moon, Wolfgang Hoffmann and Neeltje van den Berg
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:59
  45. It has recently been emphasized that the unmet needs of cancer patients should be evaluated more holistically, for example, by exploring caregivers’ perspectives and cross cultural differences. This study expl...

    Authors: Jeehee Pyo, Minsu Ock, Mina Lee, Juhee Kim, Jaekyung Cheon, Juhee Cho, Jung Hye Kwon, Hyeyeoung Kim, Hyeon-Su Im, Young Joo Min and Su-Jin Koh
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:58

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