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Effect of motivational interviewing to promote advance care planning among palliative care patients in ambulatory care setting: a randomized controlled trial
Effect of motivational interviewing to promote advance care planning among palliative care patients in ambulatory care setting: a randomized controlled trial
Many patients have mixed feelings about end-of-life care, even when facing life-limiting conditions. Motivational intervie...
BreathCarer: Informal carers of patients with chronic breathlessness: a mixed-methods systematic review of burden, needs, coping, and support interventions
BreathCarer: Informal carers of patients with chronic breathlessness: a mixed-methods systematic review of burden, needs, coping, and support interventions
Breathlessness is a common symptom in chronic and advanced diseases, and it poses a significant burden to patients and to ...
Investigation of grief and posttraumatic growth related to patient loss in pediatric intensive care nurses: a cross-sectional study
Investigation of grief and posttraumatic growth related to patient loss in pediatric intensive care nurses: a cross-sectional study
Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) are clinical settings where patient loss is frequently experienced. A sense of prof...
The meaning of dying and death for children, their carers, and families: a scoping review
The meaning of dying and death for children, their carers, and families: a scoping review
The meaning of dying and death are underexplored concepts for Canadian children. Subsequently, it is unclear how children ...
Palliative care for children: methodology for the development of a national clinical practice guideline
Palliative care for children: methodology for the development of a national clinical practice guideline
Provision of paediatric palliative care for children with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions and their families ...
The meaning of dignity in care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in acute and intensive care
The meaning of dignity in care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in acute and intensive care
The pandemic Era has forced palliative care professionals to use a dignity-in-care approach in different settings from the...
Discharge to home from a palliative care unit: impact on survival and factors associated with home death after the discharge: a cohort study
Discharge to home from a palliative care unit: impact on survival and factors associated with home death after the discharge: a cohort study
Staying at home during the dying process is important for many patients; and palliative care units (PCUs) can help facilit...
A shared decision-making model in pediatric palliative care: a qualitative study of healthcare providers
A shared decision-making model in pediatric palliative care: a qualitative study of healthcare providers
Pediatric shared decision-making (SDM) is a fundamental part of family-centered care. Pediatric palliative care (PPC) is o...
Palliative care research utilising intersectionality: a scoping review
Palliative care research utilising intersectionality: a scoping review
Access to palliative care is recognised as a human right, yet clear disparities exist. There have been recent appeals to e...
The responsibility to quench thirst by providing drinks when a relative is dying spouses’ experience in specialist palliative home care
The responsibility to quench thirst by providing drinks when a relative is dying spouses’ experience in specialist palliative home care
Thirst and dry mouth are common symptoms in terminally ill patients. It is known that family members usually request drips...
Caring for patients during voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking (VSED): experiences of a palliative care team in Germany
Caring for patients during voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking (VSED): experiences of a palliative care team in Germany
Health-care professionals are confronted with patients who wish to end their lives through voluntarily stopping eating and...
Correction: Translation and cultural adaptation of the Greek integrated palliative care outcome scale (IPOS): challenges in a six-phase process
Correction: Translation and cultural adaptation of the Greek integrated palliative care outcome scale (IPOS): challenges in a six-phase process
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, whi...
Communication strategies used by medical physicians when delivering bad news at the Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique: a cross-sectional study
Communication strategies used by medical physicians when delivering bad news at the Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique: a cross-sectional study
Physicians’ communication with patients and their families is important during both the disease diagnosis and progno...
Experiences of the older spousal caregivers of patients with cancer during palliative chemotherapy: a qualitative descriptive study
Experiences of the older spousal caregivers of patients with cancer during palliative chemotherapy: a qualitative descriptive study
Several studies have characterized the experiences of family members caring for patients undergoing chemotherapy; however,...
Symptom and problem clusters in German specialist palliative home care - a factor analysis of non-oncological and oncological patients’ symptom burden
Symptom and problem clusters in German specialist palliative home care - a factor analysis of non-oncological and oncological patients’ symptom burden
Specialist palliative home care (SPHC) aims to maintain and improve patients’ quality of life in the community setti...
Healthcare practitioners’ perspectives of providing palliative care to patients from culturally diverse backgrounds: a qualitative systematic review
Healthcare practitioners’ perspectives of providing palliative care to patients from culturally diverse backgrounds: a qualitative systematic review
Palliative care practitioners are increasingly caring for patients and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. There i...
Interrater agreement of multi-professional case review as reference standard for specialist palliative care need: a mixed-methods study
Interrater agreement of multi-professional case review as reference standard for specialist palliative care need: a mixed-methods study
A wide variety of screening tools for the need for specialist palliative care (SPC) have been proposed for the use in onco...
Nurses’ perceptions of the challenges involved in providing of end-of-life care to people with heart failure: a context-based study
Nurses’ perceptions of the challenges involved in providing of end-of-life care to people with heart failure: a context-based study
High quality end-of-life care is essential. Yet for those experiencing heart failure, the provision of high-quality end- o...
How do navigation programs address the needs of those living in the community with advanced, life-limiting Illness? A realist evaluation of programs in Canada
How do navigation programs address the needs of those living in the community with advanced, life-limiting Illness? A realist evaluation of programs in Canada
We sought to identify innovative navigation programs across Canadian jurisdictions that target their services to individua...
Eye donation in hospice and hospital palliative care settings: perceptions, practice, and service development needs – findings from a national survey
Eye donation in hospice and hospital palliative care settings: perceptions, practice, and service development needs – findings from a national survey
New routes for supply of eye tissue are needed in the UK to support transplant surgery and medical research. Hospice care ...
Exploring the variations in death anxiety among oncology nurses in China: a latent class analysis
Exploring the variations in death anxiety among oncology nurses in China: a latent class analysis
Various factors have been found to be associated with high levels of death anxiety experienced by oncology nurses. The aim...
Home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths. A focused ethnography
Home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths. A focused ethnography
Home care nurses provide complex palliative care for patients who want to die in their own homes. This study aimed to expl...
Specialist perinatal palliative care: a retrospective review of antenatal referrals to a children’s palliative care service over 14 years
Specialist perinatal palliative care: a retrospective review of antenatal referrals to a children’s palliative care service over 14 years
Perinatal palliative care is an emerging branch of children’s palliative care. This study sought to better understan...
Xerostomia in patients with advanced cancer: a scoping review of clinical features and complications
Xerostomia in patients with advanced cancer: a scoping review of clinical features and complications
The aim of this project was to review the literature on dry mouth / xerostomia in patients with advanced cancer, with the ...
Spiritual care from the perspective of family caregivers and nurses in palliative care: a qualitative study
Spiritual care from the perspective of family caregivers and nurses in palliative care: a qualitative study
The palliative care period not only affects patients but also family caregivers in many ways. Palliative care units are pl...
Balancing pandemic public health restrictions and family support at the end of life: palliative care and bereavement experiences of parents whose child died during the COVID-19 pandemic
Balancing pandemic public health restrictions and family support at the end of life: palliative care and bereavement experiences of parents whose child died during the COVID-19 pandemic
Little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families of children with chronic life-limiting conditions wh...
Appetite and its association with mortality in patients with advanced cancer – a Post-hoc Analysis from the Palliative D-study
Appetite and its association with mortality in patients with advanced cancer – a Post-hoc Analysis from the Palliative D-study
Loss of appetite is a common nutrition symptom in patients with cancer. Understanding the trajectory of appetite could be ...
Continuous deep sedation at the end of life: a qualitative interview-study among health care providers on an evolving practice
Continuous deep sedation at the end of life: a qualitative interview-study among health care providers on an evolving practice
Continuous deep sedation (CDS) can be used for patients at the end of life who suffer intolerably from severe symptoms tha...
Training nurses to facilitate and implement CURA in palliative care institutions: development and evaluation of a blended learning program
Training nurses to facilitate and implement CURA in palliative care institutions: development and evaluation of a blended learning program
Healthcare professionals in palliative care are found to be confronted with moral challenges on a frequent basis. CURA is ...
POMSNAME: an aide-mémoire to improve the assessment and documentation of palliative care – a longitudinal project
POMSNAME: an aide-mémoire to improve the assessment and documentation of palliative care – a longitudinal project
Evidence-based palliative care requires comprehensive assessment and documentation. However, palliative care is not always...
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