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  1. Inpatient, generalist social workers in discharge planning roles work alongside specialist palliative care social workers to care for patients, often resulting in two social workers being concurrently involved...

    Authors: Janice Firn, Nancy Preston and Catherine Walshe
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  2. Individuals with HIV have a high prevalence of physical and psychological symptoms throughout their disease course. Despite the clinical and public health implications of unresolved pain and symptoms, little i...

    Authors: Katie Wakeham, Richard Harding, Jonathan Levin, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi, Anatoli Kamali and David G Lalloo
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  3. Previous research and key guidelines have suggested potential models of palliative care for patients with COPD and interstitial lung disease. However, these recommendations are often not effectively implemente...

    Authors: Clare Mc Veigh, Joanne Reid, Philip Larkin, Sam Porter and Peter Hudson
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  4. Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity. Although a number of studies have documen...

    Authors: Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L. W. Chan and Amy Y. M. Chow
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  5. The objective of the Balearic Islands Palliative Care (PC) Program is to improve the quality of PC through a shared model consisting of primary health care professionals, home-based PC teams, and PC units in h...

    Authors: Joan Llobera, Noemí Sansó, Amador Ruiz, Merce Llagostera, Estefania Serratusell, Carlos Serrano, María Luisa Martín Roselló, Enric Benito, Eusebio J. Castaño and Alfonso Leiva
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:4
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  6. Maintaining a sense of self-care while providing patient centered care, can be difficult for practitioners in palliative medicine. We aimed to pilot an “on the job” mindfulness and compassion-oriented meditati...

    Authors: Claudia L. Orellana-Rios, Lukas Radbruch, Martina Kern, Yesche U. Regel, Andreas Anton, Shane Sinclair and Stefan Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  7. A compassionate community approach to palliative care provides important rationale for building community-based hospice volunteer capacity. In this project, we piloted one such capacity-building model in which...

    Authors: Barbara Pesut, Wendy Duggleby, Grace Warner, Konrad Fassbender, Elisabeth Antifeau, Brenda Hooper, Madeleine Greig and Kelli Sullivan
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:2
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  8. There is limited population-level research on end-of-life care in Australia that considers health care use and costs across hospital and community sectors. The aim of this study was to quantify health care use...

    Authors: Rebecca Reeve, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul, Julia M. Langton, Marion Haas, Rosalie Viney and Sallie-Anne Pearson
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:1
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:51

  9. This study aimed to examine the status of undergraduate palliative care education among Japanese medical students using data from a survey conducted in 2015.

    Authors: Yoichi Nakamura, Yusuke Takamiya, Mari Saito, Koichi Kuroko, Tatsuko Shiratsuchi, Kenzaburo Oshima, Yuko Ito and Satoshi Miyake
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:38
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  10. Few services are available to support rural older adults living at home with advancing chronic illness. The objective of this project was to pilot a nurse-led navigation service to provide early palliative sup...

    Authors: Barbara Pesut, Brenda Hooper, Marnie Jacobsen, Barbara Nielsen, Miranda Falk and Brian P. O ‘Connor
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:37
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  11. Hospital-based Palliative Care Consultation Teams (PCCTs) have a consulting role to specialist services at their request. Referral of patients is often late. Early palliative care in oncology has shown its eff...

    Authors: Pascale Vinant, Ingrid Joffin, Laure Serresse, Sophie Grabar, Hélène Jaulmes, Malika Daoud, Gabriel Abitbol, Pascale Fouassier, Isabelle Triol, Sylvie Rostaing, Marie-Dominique Brette and Isabelle Colombet
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:36
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  12. Dyspnoea is a disabling symptom in patients admitted with heart failure (HF) and respiratory diseases (RD). The main aim of this study is to evaluate its intensity at admission and discharge and the relation w...

    Authors: Lourdes Vicent, Juan Manuel Nuñez Olarte, Luis Puente-Maestu, Alicia Oliva, Juan Carlos López, Andrea Postigo, Irene Martín, Raquel Luna, Francisco Fernández-Avilés and Manuel Martínez-Sellés
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:35
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  13. As in other areas of health delivery, there is a need to ensure that end-of-life care is guided by patient centred research. A systematic review was undertaken to examine the quantity and quality of data-based...

    Authors: Amy Waller, Natalie Dodd, Martin H. N. Tattersall, Balakrishnan Nair and Rob Sanson-Fisher
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:34
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  14. The purpose of this study was to compare the differences across occupational groups related to their end-of-life care-specific educational needs and reported intensity of interprofessional collaboration in lon...

    Authors: S. Kaasalainen, T. Sussman, M. Bui, N. Akhtar-Danesh, R. D. Laporte, L. McCleary, A. Wickson Griffiths, K. Brazil, D. Parker, V. Dal Bello-Haas, A. Papaioannou and J. O’Leary
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:33
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  15. Neonatology has made significant advances in the last 30 years. Despite the advances in treatments, not all neonates survive and a palliative care model is required within the neonatal context. Previous resear...

    Authors: Meegan Kilcullen and Susan Ireland
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:32
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  16. This pilot study aimed to investigate quality of life, psychological burden, unmet needs, and care satisfaction in family caregivers of advanced cancer patients (FCs) during specialized inpatient palliative ca...

    Authors: Anneke Ullrich, Lilian Ascherfeld, Gabriella Marx, Carsten Bokemeyer, Corinna Bergelt and Karin Oechsle
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:31
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  17. The practice of continuous deep sedation is a challenging clinical intervention with demanding clinical and ethical decision-making. Though current research indicates that healthcare professionals’ involvement...

    Authors: Sarah Ziegler, Hannes Merker, Margareta Schmid and Milo A. Puhan
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:30
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  18. Confinement to an in-patient hospital ward impairs patients’ sense of social support and connectedness. Providing the means, through communication technology, for patients to maintain contact with friends and ...

    Authors: Qiaohong Guo, Beverley Cann, Susan McClement, Genevieve Thompson and Harvey Max Chochinov
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:29
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  19. When entering the dying phase, the nature of physical, psychosocial and spiritual care needs of people with dementia and their families may change. Our objective was to understand what needs to be in place to ...

    Authors: Jenny T. van der Steen, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Marie-José H. E. Gijsberts, Laura H. Vermeulen, Margje M. Mahler and B. Anne-Mei The
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:28
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  20. It is estimated that 19 to 83% of people with dementia suffer from pain that is inadequately treated in the last months of life. A large number of healthcare workers who care for these people in nursing homes ...

    Authors: Andrea Koppitz, Georg Bosshard, Geneviève Blanc, Hannele Hediger, Sheila Payne and Thomas Volken
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:27
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  21. Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement annivers...

    Authors: Swantje Goebel, Sandra Stephanie Mai, Christina Gerlach, Ulrike Windschmitt, Karl-Heinz Feldmann and Martin Weber
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:26
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  22. Despite recent advances in palliative medicine, sedating a terminally ill patient is regarded as an indispensable treatment to manage unbearable suffering. With the prospect of widespread use of palliative sed...

    Authors: Danièle Leboul, Régis Aubry, Jean-Michel Peter, Victor Royer, Jean-François Richard and Frédéric Guirimand
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:25
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  24. Caregiving is strenuous and it may be associated with adverse psychological outcomes. During the palliative care trajectory, there are unique opportunities for providing support and preventing poor bereavement...

    Authors: Kia Toft Thomsen, Mai-Britt Guldin, Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen, Chaitali Laura Ollars and Anders Bonde Jensen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:23
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  25. A continuous subcutaneous infusion (CSCI) delivered via syringe pump is a method of drug administration used to maintain symptom control when a patient is no longer able to tolerate oral medication. Several cl...

    Authors: Andrew Dickman, Matthew Bickerstaff, Richard Jackson, Jennifer Schneider, Stephen Mason and John Ellershaw
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:22
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  26. Specialised palliative care (SPC) takes place in specialised services for patients with complex symptoms and problems. Little is known about what determines the admission of patients to SPC and whether there a...

    Authors: Mathilde Adsersen, Lau Caspar Thygesen, Anders Bonde Jensen, Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Per Sjøgren and Mogens Groenvold
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:21
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  27. Little is known about palliative care professionals’ attitudes towards guidelines. In 2015, the German Association for Palliative Medicine (DGP) published an evidence based guideline for palliative care in adu...

    Authors: Helen Kalies, Rieke Schöttmer, Steffen T. Simon, Raymond Voltz, Alexander Crispin and Claudia Bausewein
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:20
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  28. Salvage chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment for metastatic gastric cancer (mGC). This study aimed to clarify the effects of palliative gastrectomy (PG) and identify prognostic factors in mGC patients und...

    Authors: Jun-Te Hsu, Jian-Ann Liao, Huei-Chieh Chuang, Tai-Di Chen, Tsung-Hsing Chen, Chia-Jung Kuo, Chun-Jung Lin, Wen-Chi Chou, Ta-Sen Yeh and Yi-Yin Jan
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:19
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  29. It has been found that including volunteers in palliative care is a positive contribution to seriously ill patients. It is, however, recommended that the volunteers are trained and supported. The aim of this s...

    Authors: Ulrika Söderhamn, Sylvi Flateland, Marthe Fensli and Ragnhild Skaar
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:18
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  30. Primary care physicians (General Practitioners (GPs)) play a pivotal role in providing end of life care (EoLC). However, many lack confidence in this area, and the quality of EoLC by GPs can be problematic. Ev...

    Authors: Lucy Ellen Selman, Lisa Jane Brighton, Vicky Robinson, Rob George, Shaheen A. Khan, Rachel Burman and Jonathan Koffman
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:17
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  31. Authors: Karin Zimmermann, Eva Bergstraesser, Sandra Engberg, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet, Katrin Marfurt-Russenberger, Nicolas Von der Weid, Chantal Grandjean, Patricia Fahrni-Nater and Eva Cignacco
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:16
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:30

  33. Geographical accessibility is important in accessing healthcare services. Measuring it has evolved alongside technological and data analysis advances. High correlations between different methods have been dete...

    Authors: Clare Pearson, Julia Verne, Claudia Wells, Giovanna M. Polato, Irene J Higginson and Wei Gao
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:14
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  34. Education in palliative medicine (PM) at medical schools reveals wide variation despite the increasing importance of palliative care. Many universities present poor description of the benefits and detailed con...

    Authors: Juho T. Lehto, Kati Hakkarainen, Pirkko-Liisa Kellokumpu-Lehtinen and Tiina Saarto
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:13
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  35. Communication with parents about end-of-life care and decisions is a difficult and sensitive process. The objective of the present study was to ascertain clinicians’ views on the acceptability and usefulness o...

    Authors: Clare Delany, Vicki Xafis, Lynn Gillam, Jo-anne Hughson, Jenny Hynson and Dominic Wilkinson
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:12
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  37. Over the past decades there has been a significant increase in the number of published clinical trials in palliative care. However, empirical evidence suggests that there are methodological problems in the des...

    Authors: Raquel Bouça-Machado, Madalena Rosário, Joana Alarcão, Leonor Correia-Guedes, Daisy Abreu and Joaquim J. Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:10
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  38. An advance directive (AD) is a written or verbal document that legally stipulates a person’s health care preference while they are competent to make decisions for themselves and is used to guide decisions on l...

    Authors: Stephen Omondi, John Weru, Asim Jamal Shaikh and Gerald Yonga
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:9
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  39. The Care Evaluation Scale (CES1.0) was designed to allow bereaved family members to evaluate the structure and process of care, but has been associated with a high frequency of misresponses. The objective of t...

    Authors: Mitsunori Miyashita, Maho Aoyama, Misato Nakahata, Yuji Yamada, Mutsumi Abe, Kazuhiro Yanagihara, Akemi Shirado, Mariko Shutoh, Yoshiaki Okamoto, Jun Hamano, Aoi Miyamoto, Saki Yoshida, Kazuki Sato, Kei Hirai and Tatsuya Morita
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:8
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  40. In February 2nd 2016, the French government enacted the Claeys-Leonetti law that forbade euthanasia and established the right to deep and continuous sedation for end-of-life patients. Moreover, the law also ob...

    Authors: Augustin Boulanger, Théo Chabal, Marie Fichaux, Mireille Destandau, Jean Marc La Piana, Pascal Auquier, Karine Baumstarck and Sébastien Salas
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:7
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  41. Pain assessment and management are key aspects in the care of people with dementia approaching the end of life but become challenging when patient self-report is impaired or unavailable. Best practice recommen...

    Authors: Bannin De Witt Jansen, Kevin Brazil, Peter Passmore, Hilary Buchanan, Doreen Maxwell, Sonja J. McIlfatrick, Sharon M. Morgan, Max Watson and Carole Parsons
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:6
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Procedural pain reduces the quality of life of cancer patients. Although there are recommendations for its prevention, there are some obstacles for its management. The purpose of this study was to analyze the ...

    Authors: Marilène Filbet, Philip Larkin, Claire Chabloz, Anne Chirac, Léa Monsarrat, Murielle Ruer, Wadih Rhondali and Cyrille Collin
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:5
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Palliative care in Indonesia is problematic because of cultural and socio-economic factors. Family in Indonesia is an integral part of caregiving process in inpatient and outpatient settings. However, most fam...

    Authors: Martina Sinta Kristanti, Sri Setiyarini and Christantie Effendy
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:4
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  44. Limiting treatment forms part of practice in many fields of medicine. There is a scarcity of robust data from Germany. Therefore, in this paper, we report results of a survey among German physicians with a foc...

    Authors: Birte Malena Dahmen, Jochen Vollmann, Stephan Nadolny and Jan Schildmann
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:3
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  45. Community-dwelling consumers of healthcare are increasing, many aging with life-limiting conditions and deteriorating cognition. However, few have had advance care planning discussions or completed documentati...

    Authors: Natasha Michael, Clare O’Callaghan and Emma Sayers
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:2
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  46. Case management is a subject of interest within pediatric palliative care. Detailed descriptions of the content of this type of case management are lacking. We aim to describe the contents of care provided, ut...

    Authors: Charissa T. Jagt – van Kampen, Marijke C. Kars, Derk A. Colenbrander, Diederik K. Bosman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Huib N. Caron and Antoinette Y. N. Schouten-van Meeteren
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:1
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  47. Cachexia is defined as the on-going loss of skeletal muscle mass that cannot be fully reversed by conventional nutritional support. It is found in up to 80% of patients with advanced cancer and has profound ps...

    Authors: David Scott, Joanne Reid, Peter Hudson, Peter Martin and Sam Porter
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:100
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  48. Patients with serious chronic illnesses face increasingly complex care and are at risk of poor experience due to a fragmented health system. Most current patient experience tools are not designed to address th...

    Authors: Karl M. Fernstrom, Nathan D. Shippee, Alissa L. Jones and Heather R. Britt
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:99
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  49. Authors: Catherine Walshe, Guillermo Perez Algorta, Steven Dodd, Evangelia Papavasiliou, Matthew Hill, Nick Ockenden, Sheila Payne and Nancy Preston
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:98
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:60

  50. Exercise is increasingly recognized as a core component of palliative rehabilitation. The group exercise model is often adopted as a means of reaching more patients with limited resource. Despite the growth of...

    Authors: Lorna Malcolm, Gill Mein, Alison Jones, Helena Talbot-Rice, Matthew Maddocks and Katherine Bristowe
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:97
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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