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Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:196
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A systematic review defining non-beneficial and inappropriate end-of-life treatment in patients with non-cancer diagnoses: theoretical development for multi-stakeholder intervention design in acute care settings
Non-beneficial treatment is closely tied to inappropriate treatment at the end-of-life. Understanding the interplay between how and why these situations arise in acute care settings according to the various st...
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Advance directives among cognitively impaired persons who had an amyloid PET scan and their care partners: a mixed-methods study
Little research exists on the role of β-amyloid PET scans as part of Alzheimer’s diagnostic tests and documentation of end-of-life preferences for persons with cognitive impairment. The study objectives were t...
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The end of life experiences of people living with socio-economic deprivation in the developed world: an integrative review
Those experiencing socioeconomic deprivation have poorer quality of health throughout their life course which can result in poorer quality of death – with decreased access to palliative care services, greater ...
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Implementation of a threefold intervention to improve palliative care for persons experiencing homelessness: a process evaluation using the RE-AIM framework
Palliative care provision for persons experiencing homelessness is often poor. A threefold consultation service intervention was expected to increase knowledge of palliative care and multidisciplinary collabor...
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Methadone switching for refractory cancer pain
Methadone is commonly considered an alternative opioid treatment for refractory cancer pain. This study aims to investigate the efficacy, safety, and cost of methadone in the treatment of refractory cancer pain.
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Correction: Charitably funded hospices and the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study (CovPall)
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The decisional balance, attitudes, and practice behaviors, its predicting factors, and related experiences of advance care planning in Taiwanese patients with advanced cancer
Patients with advanced cancer are prone to experience burdensome physical, psychological, and financial consequences. Healthcare providers may not fully appreciate advanced cancer pat...
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Specialised Paediatric PAlliativE CaRe: Assessing family, healthcare professionals and health system outcomes in a multi-site context of various care settings: SPhAERA study protocol
The number of children and adolescents living with life-limiting conditions and potentially in need for specialised paediatric palliative care (SPPC) is rising. Ideally, a specialised multiprofessional team re...
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Stories of paediatric palliative care: a qualitative study exploring health care professionals’ understanding of the concept
By sharing patient stories, health care professionals (HCPs) may communicate their attitudes, values and beliefs about caring and treatment. Previous qualitative research has shown that HCPs usually associate ...
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Exploring the psychological and religious perspectives of cancer patients and their future financial planning: a Q-methodological approach
Cancer patients are often hesitant to talk about their mental health, religious beliefs regarding the disease, and financial issues that drain them physically and psychologically. But there is a need to break ...
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Expert survey on coverage and characteristics of pediatric palliative care in Europe – a focus on home care
For children with life-limiting conditions home care is a key component of pediatric palliative care. However, poor information is available on service coverage and in particular on country-specific pediatric ...
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Association of perceived life satisfaction with attitudes toward life-sustaining treatment among the elderly in South Korea: a cross-sectional study
Amidst rapid population aging, South Korea enacted the Well-dying Act, late among advanced countries, but public opinion on the act is not still clear. Against this background, this study aims to: 1) investiga...
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Trajectories of Health-related quality of life in patients with Advanced Cancer during the Last Year of Life: findings from the COMPASS study
Patients with advanced cancer prioritise health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in end-of-life care, however an understanding of pre-death HrQoL trajectories is lacking. We aimed to delineate and describe the ...
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Is progress being made on Canada’s palliative care framework and action plan? A survey of stakeholder perspectives
The legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada in 2016 provided new impetus for improving palliative care. This commitment to improvement included the development of a National Palliative Care Frame...
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When cultural values meets professional values: a qualitative study of chinese nurses’ attitudes and experiences concerning death
In China, there is a culture of death-avoidance and death-denying. Influenced by this distinctive socio-cultural views surrounding death, nurses often find it challenging to handle death and care for dying pat...
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The explorations of the awareness, contemplation, self-Efficacy, and readiness of advance care planning, and its predictors in Taiwanese patients while receiving hemodialysis treatment
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a major chronic illness worldwide, and Taiwan reports one of the highest incidence rates of ESRD with 529 cases per million population (pmp). A number of patients with ESRD pa...
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Implementation of advance care planning decision aids for patients undergoing high-risk surgery: a field-testing study
Patients undergoing high-risk surgery are at a risk of sudden deterioration of their health. This study aimed to examine the feasibility of the development of two patient decision aids (PtDAs) to assist patien...
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Prevalence and predictors of advance directive among terminally ill patients in Taiwan before enactment of Patient Right to Autonomy Act: a nationwide population-based study
Signing advance directives (ADs) ensures that terminally ill patients receive end-of-life care, according to their wishes, thereby promoting human dignity and sparing them from unnecessary suffering. Despite t...
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Parental perspectives on the grief and support needs of children and young people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative findings from a national survey
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many children and young people have experienced the death of close family members, whilst also facing unprecedented disruption to their lives. This study aimed to investigate the ...
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Charitably funded hospices and the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study (CovPall)
Independent charitably funded hospices have been an important element of the UK healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospices usually have different funding streams, procurement processes, and governa...
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Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of advance care planning self-efficacy scale among clinical nurses
Nurses are one of the most critical members of advance care planning (ACP) discussion. The evaluation of ACP self-efficacy is of great significance for developing targeted ACP interventions among clinical nurs...
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The interRAI CHESS scale is comparable to the palliative performance scale in predicting 90-day mortality in a palliative home care population
Prognostic accuracy is important throughout all stages of the illness trajectory as it has implications for the timing of important conversations and decisions around care. Physicians often tend to over-estima...
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Palliative care symptoms, concerns and well-being of older people with frailty and complex care needs upon hospital discharge: a cross-sectional study
Little is known about the nature and intensity of palliative care needs of hospitalised older people. We aimed to describe the palliative care symptoms, concerns, and well-being of older people with frailty an...
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Characteristics and place of death in home care recipients in Germany – an analysis of nationwide health insurance claims data
Most care-dependent people live at home, where they also would prefer to die. Unfortunately, this wish is often not fulfilled. This study aims to investigate place of death of home care recipients, taking char...
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Gender differences in the intention to withhold life-sustaining treatments involving severe dementia for self and on behalf of parent or spouse
Few studies have explored gender differences in the attitudes toward advanced care planning and the intention to withhold life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) involving severe dementia in Asian countries. We exam...
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A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland : how did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic?
Social support is described by patients and other stakeholders to be a valuable component of palliative day care. Less is known about the range of hospice services that have been used in practice that facilita...
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Virtual reality reduces pain in palliative care–A feasibility trial
Effective symptom control is a stated goal of palliative care (PC) to improve quality of life for terminally ill patients. Virtual reality (VR) provides temporary escapes from pharmacologically resistant pain ...
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Palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean: comparative analysis using specific indicators
Monitoring the development of palliative care (PC) illustrates the capacity of health systems to respond to the needs of people experiencing serious health-related suffering.
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“SpezPat”- common advance directives versus disease-centred advance directives: a randomised controlled pilot study on the impact on physicians’ understanding of non-small cell lung cancer patients’ end-of-life decisions
The advance directive represents patients’ health care choices and fosters patients’ autonomy. Nevertheless, understanding patients’ wishes based on the information provided in advance directives remains a cha...
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Availability of and factors related to interventional procedures for refractory pain in patients with cancer: a nationwide survey
Cancer pain may be refractory to standard pharmacological treatment. Interventional procedures are important for quality of analgesia. The aim of the present study was to clarify the availability of four inter...
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Advance care planning and goals of care discussion: the perspectives of Brazilian oncologists
Advance care planning (ACP) and goals of care discussions are important instruments that enable respect for patient autonomy, especially in patients with a life-threatening disease, such as cancer. Despite the...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:165 -
Adolescents’ and young people’s needs and preferences for support when living with a parent with life-threatening cancer: a grounded theory study
Living with a parent facing life-threatening illness and losing a mom or dad at a young age can cause both short- and long-term health problems. Without satisfactory support, adolescents’ and young people are ...
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The experiences of clinical nurses coping with patient death in the context of rising hospital deaths in China: a qualitative study
Chinese clinical nurses are increasingly confronting patient death, as the proportion of hospital deaths is growing. Witnessing patient suffering and death is stressful, and failure to cope with this challenge...
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Views of general practitioners on end-of-life care learning preferences: a systematic review
General practitioners (GPs) play a pivotal role in providing end-of-life care in the community. Although they value end-of-life care, they have apprehensions about providing care in view of the limitations in ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:162 -
“Respecting our patients’ choices”: making the organizational decision to participate in voluntary assisted dying provision: findings from semi-structured interviews with a rural community hospice board of management
There is limited literature around how palliative care organizations determine the degree to which they will interface with voluntary assisted dying in jurisdictions where it is legal. The aim of this research...
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The role of companion animals in advanced cancer: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
There is evidence that a companion animal (CA) or ‘pet’ can be helpful during the management of chronic illness. However, the psychological effects of CAs and the mechanism by which they can be beneficial to i...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:160 -
Utilisation of after-hours telephone support in a home-based hospice service
After-hours support from hospice providers is instrumental to patients with serious illness who choose to remain at home, particularly at end of life. Utilisation of out-of-hours support has been much characte...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:159 -
Medical decision-making in hospices from the viewpoint of physicians: results from two qualitative studies
Physicians who practice in a hospice are responsible for working with patients and nursing staff to develop a medication plan, monitor symptoms and pain, and adjust medication if necessary. In inpatient hospic...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:158 -
The development of a questionnaire to assess the willingness of Chinese community health workers to implement advance care planning
To develop a questionnaire to evaluate the willingness of Chinese health care workers to implement an advance care planning (ACP) program for patients in a Chinese cultural context.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:157 -
Modifiable factors of depressive-symptom trajectories from caregiving through bereavement
The purpose of this secondary-analysis study was to identify never-before-examined factors associated with distinct depressive-symptom trajectories among family caregivers from end-of-life caregiving through t...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:156 -
Communication of palliative care needs in discharge letters from hospice providers to primary care: a multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study
The provision of palliative care is increasing, with many people dying in community-based settings. It is essential that communication is effective if and when patients transition from hospice to community pal...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:155 -
Communication skills training in advance care planning: a survey among medical students at the University of Antwerp
Palliative care (PC) is a strongly emerging discipline worldwide. Despite efforts to integrate this important topic in the medical curriculum in Belgium, still little time is spent on PC and its implementation...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:154 -
“I want to live, but …” the desire to live and its physical, psychological, spiritual, and social factors among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH study in India
The limited access to palliative care resources along with the social stigma around cancer largely explains the poor quality of life (QoL) of Indian advanced cancer patients. As advanced cancer patients with p...
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Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale-renal (IPOS-r) to Czech
Patients with advanced kidney disease suffer from burdensome symptoms, which should be assessed by valid and reliable patient-reported outcome measures.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:152 -
Unmet needs in palliative care for patients with common non-cancer diseases: a cross-sectional study
Non-cancer patients experience the chronic process of disease that increases the patients’ suffering as well as families’ care burden. Although two-thirds of deaths are caused by non-cancer diseases, there is ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:151 -
A study to translate and validate the Thai version of the Victoria Respiratory Congestion Scale
Few clinical tools are available to objectively evaluate death rattles in palliative care. The Victoria Respiratory Congestion Scale (VRCS) was adapted from the Back's scale, which has been widely utilized in ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:150 -
Factors influencing terminal cancer patients’ autonomous DNR decision: a longitudinal statutory document and clinical database study
Much of our knowledge of patient autonomy of DNR (do-not-resuscitate) is derived from the cross-sectional questionnaire surveys. Using signatures on statutory documents and medical records, we analyzed longitu...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:149 -
The perspectives of oncology healthcare providers on the role of palliative care in a comprehensive cancer center
Palliative care (PC) is an essential part of oncologic care, but its optimal role within a cancer center remains unclear. This study examines oncology healthcare providers’ perspectives about the role of PC at...
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Correction: Evaluation of an advance care planning training program for practice professionals in Japan incorporating shared decision making skills training: a prospective study of a curricular intervention
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2022 21:147
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