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The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with the severity of cancer related fatigue (CRF) and predictors of improvement of CRF at the first follow-up visit in patients with advanced cancer re...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:16
Homeless populations have complex and diverse end-of-life care needs. However, they typically die outside of the end-of-life care system. To date, few studies have explored barriers to the end-of-life care sys...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:14
To maintain patients’ quality of life is one of the major goals in palliative home care provided by general practitioners (GPs). GPs need adequate training to care for palliative patients. The paper seeks to e...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:13
Unbearable suffering most frequently is reported in end-of-life cancer patients in primary care. However, research seldom addresses unbearable suffering. The aim of this study was to comprehensively investigat...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:12
While most people faced with a terminal illness would prefer to die at home, less than a third in England are enabled to do so with many dying in National Health Service hospitals. Patients are more likely to ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:11
Patients in sub-Saharan Africa commonly experience pain, which often is un-assessed and undertreated. One hindrance to routine pain assessment in these settings is the lack of a single-item pain rating scale v...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:5
Medicine has long acknowledged the role of chaplains in healthcare, but there is little research on the relationship between chaplaincy care and health outcomes. The present study examines the association betw...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:10
We describe the development of a new training programme on GP-patient communication in palliative care, and the applicability to GPs and GP Trainees. This ‘ACA training programme’ focuses on A vailability of th...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:9
People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) require significant care and support; however, most care needs are still unmet. To our knowledge, no studies have described the activities and challenges of care services in...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:8
Under-diagnosis of pain is a serious problem in cancer care. Accurate pain assessment by physicians may form the basis of effective care. The aim of this study is to examine the association between late referr...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:7
Off-label prescribing is common in palliative care. Despite inconsistent reports of the benefit of nebulised frusemide for breathlessness, its use continues to be reported.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:6
Typically, dementia involves progressive cognitive and functional deterioration, leading to death. A palliative approach recognizes the inevitable health decline, focusing on quality of life. The approach is h...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:4
The results of a small number of studies of autonomic function in patients with advanced cancer suggest that autonomic dysfunction (AD) is common. In other disease-specific groups this is associated with decre...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:3
Disseminating palliative care is a critical task throughout the world. Several outcome studies explored the effects of regional palliative care programs on a variety of end-points, and some qualitative studies...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:2
End-of-life care research across Africa is under-resourced and under-developed. A central issue in research in end-of-life care is the measurement of effects and outcomes of care on patients and families. Litt...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2012 11:1
Previous studies have found that cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can effectively manage their own symptoms when given tailored advice. This approach, however, may challenge patients with poor performan...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:21
Public involvement in research on sensitive subjects, such as death and dying, can help to ensure that questions are framed to reflect the interests of their peers, develop a shared understanding of issues rai...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:20
To care for terminally ill and dying patients requires a thorough medical education, encompassing skills, knowledge, and attitudes in the field of palliative care. Undergraduate medical students in Germany wil...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:19
Over the past ten years there has been an increasing focus on the need for improving the experience of end of life care. A number of policy initiatives have been introduced to develop approaches to discussing ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:18
We aimed to clarify the factors affecting outcomes of home care for patients with malignant diseases.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:17
While the home is the most common setting for the provision of palliative care in Australia, a common problem encountered here is the inability of patient/carers to manage medications, which can lead to misadv...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:16
Breathlessness is one of the core symptoms, particularly persistent and frequent, towards the end of life. There is no evidence of how the experience of breathlessness differs across conditions. This paper com...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:15
Overuse of anti-cancer therapy is an important quality-of-care issue. An aggressive approach to treatment can have negative effects on quality of life and cost, but its effect on survival is not well-defined.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:14
Due to the growing number of elderly with advanced chronic conditions, healthcare services will come under increasing pressure. Teleconsultation is an innovative approach to deliver quality of care for palliat...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:13
The World Health Organisation recognises the importance of palliative care in an African setting. Despite this services are often patchy and inconsistent, and many operate at health centre and/or community lev...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:12
Clinical depression is highly prevalent yet under-detected and under-treated in palliative care settings and is associated with a number of adverse medical and psychological outcomes for patients and their fam...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:11
There is a dearth of data regarding the optimal method of detecting and treating depression in palliative care. This study applied the Delphi method to evaluate expert opinion on choice of screening tool, choi...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:10
Bereavement is a condition which most people experience several times during their lives. A small but noteworthy proportion of bereaved individuals experience a syndrome of prolonged psychological distress in ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:9
Many people live and die in pain in Africa. We set out to describe patient, family and local community perspectives on the impact of three community based palliative care interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:8
This study explores the experience of palliative patients and their family members of a family meeting model, utilised as an instrument for the provision of spiritual and psychosocial care. In doing so the stu...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:7
End of life (EoL) care in sub-Saharan Africa still lacks the sound evidence-base needed for the development of effective, appropriate service provision. It is essential to make evidence from all types of resea...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:6
A significant minority of dying people experience refractory symptoms or extreme distress unresponsive to conventional therapies. In such circumstances, sedation may be used to decrease or remove consciousness...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:5
End stage dementia is a particularly difficult aspect of care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. In care institutions, caregivers and family are concerned by treatment decision-making...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:4
The combined effects of the patient's and the family's preferences for death at home have in determining the actual site of death has not been fully investigated. We explored this issue on patients who had bee...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:3
Hospital care plays a major role at the end-of-life. But little is known about the overall size and characteristics of the palliative inpatient population. The aim of our study was to analyse these aspects.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:2
Comprehensive "Total Pain" assessments of patients' end-of-life needs are critical for providing improved patient-clinician communication, assessing needs, and offering high quality palliative care. However, p...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2011 10:1
Pain is still one of the most frequently occurring symptoms at the end of life, although it can be treated satisfactorily in most cases if the physician has adequate knowledge. In the Netherlands, almost 60% o...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:23
Breathlessness is common and distressing in advanced disease. This phase II study aimed to determine the use and acceptance of a hand-held fan (HHF) to relieve breathlessness, to test the effectiveness of the ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:22
'Dignity Therapy' (DT) is a brief, flexible intervention, which allows patients to complete an interview and create a document regarding their life, identity and what they want to leave in writing for their lov....
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:21
The aim of this paper is to critically discuss some of the ethically controversial issues regarding continuous deep palliative sedation at the end of life that are addressed in the EAPC recommended framework f...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:20
Palliative cancer care aims to improve quality of life and ultimately quality of dying, while prolonging life is not an objective anymore when death nears. The question is, however, whether these perspectives ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:19
Out-of-hours general practitioners (GPs) cover the community over a significant proportion of a given week, and palliative care patients are seen as a priority. Little is known about how well these GPs feel su...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:18
Being a family carer to a patient nearing the end of their life is a challenging and confronting experience. Studies show that caregiving can have negative consequences on the health of family carers including...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:17
In order to tackle the deficits in the provision of palliative home care, profound structural changes in the outpatient sector were introduced by law in Germany in 2007. The EPACS study was carried out (Resear...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:16
Morphinofobia among the general population (GP) and among health care professionals (HP) is not without danger for the patients: it may lead to the inappropriate management of debilitating pain. The aim of our...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:15
Little data exist on how opioid doses vary with the length of exposure among chronic opioid users.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:14
Continual collaboration between physicians and hospital-based palliative care teams represents a very important contributor to focusing on patients' symptoms and maintaining their quality of life during all st...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:13
Models of palliative care delivery develop within a social, cultural, and political context. This paper describes the 30-year history of the National Tumor Association (ANT), a palliative care organization fou...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:12
Non-specialist palliative care, as it is delivered by general practitioners, is a basic component of a comprehensive palliative care infrastructure for adult patients with progressive and far advanced disease....
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:11
In North-Rhine Westphalia (Germany) a pilot project for an extensive service provision of palliative care for children and adolescents has been implemented. Accompanying research was undertaken with the aim to...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2010 9:10
Citation Impact
2.015 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.65 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.407 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.056 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
356,530 Downloads
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