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Effective clinician-patient communication is essential for delivering quality end-of-life care. However, there are no validated measures to assess the quality of end-of-life communication for Chinese patients.
Home-based health technologies for paediatric palliative care have great potential to improve care for children, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and health systems. However, no systematic reviews have di...
It is unclear what People Living with Dementia (PLwD) consider a good death to entail, or how those perspectives vary according to culture and context. We aimed to compare the meaning of a good death for PLwD ...
We explored people with dementia and their family carers’ experiences of future care planning, guided by Kukla's model of conscientious autonomy. This relational autonomy concept focuses on the alignment of se...
Spirituality and resilience have been studied as possible factors influencing psychological adjustment in cancer patients. However, the evidence on their relationship remains inconsistent, and their impact in ...
Despite the growing significance of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for various purposes, including economic evaluations, implementing them effectively in palliative and end-of-life care settings rem...
In community home hospices, limited medical staff and high workloads necessitate measurement models that objectively and effectively capture the needs of residents with malignant tumors. This study compares th...
Despite evidence on the benefits for including children in their own (palliative) care, studies show that children are not sufficiently involved nor are their preferences sufficiently elicited in a development...
This study explores the necessary considerations for preparing and conducting qualitative interviews with palliative care patients and their relatives. Palliative care patients are considered a vulnerable grou...
The purpose of this study was to explore caregiver burden and its influencing factors in cancer patients undergoing palliative PTBD from both caregiver and patient perspectives.
The implementation of acute stroke care programs with dedicated multidisciplinary stroke teams has revolutionized access to care and improved survival among older adults. However, the integration of specialize...
Patients with heart failure have significant palliative care needs but few receive palliative care. Guidance is lacking on how to integrate palliative care into standard heart failure care. Palliative care int...
Culturally appropriate assessments are needed to improve care during the last days of life. One way of assessment is to use a tool with bereaved family members after death. The aim of this study was to transla...
Cancer cachexia (CC) is a fatal syndrome most prevalent in palliative care patients and is typically characterized by a progressive increase in weight loss and anorexia. The inability to detect and accurately ...
In the absence of existing recommendations, the objective of this study was to establish a consensus of the support practices used in an interdisciplinary team in a palliative care unit (PCU) for the relatives...
In palliative care, alternative routes for drug application besides the oral and intravenous administration are frequently necessary. Up-to-date, very little is known about the familiarity, use and perceived r...
In an increasingly globalized world, multiculturalism has transformed healthcare settings, making cultural diversity an essential component of care. In end-of-life processes, this context presents unique chall...
Intractable cough, affecting 10–50% of terminally ill patients, significantly impairs quality of life. Conventional therapies often fail due to dose-limiting side effects or inadequate efficacy, necessitating ...
To explore the family members’ subjective experiences of prolonged care for individuals suffering from moderate to severe dementia and to provide evidence supporting the development of support strategies and p...
Providing general palliative care in hospital settings challenges hospitals’ multifaceted role in both saving lives and managing end-of-life care. The challenges in delivering general palliative care are compo...
Patients with cancer and their caregivers experience significant psychological, physical, and emotional burdens throughout the disease trajectory which reduces their quality of life (QoL). Early palliative car...
Effective palliative care involves managing the many symptoms commonly experienced towards the end-of-life. Appropriate prescribing is key to this care, and ethnic inequalities may lead to unequal treatment an...
Despite public support for assisted suicide (AS) and advance directives (AD), no studies have established whether individuals express interest in both procedures. This study investigates the relationship betwe...
The ability of geriatric nurses to cope with death affects both their physical and mental health, as well as the quality of the hospice services they provide. The aim of this study was to investigate the death...
Clinical Ethics Support Services (CESS) improve health-care quality by systematically identifying and resolving ethical issues. CESS providers should be trained to understand patients’ difficulties with existe...
Quality hospice and palliative care are particularly challenging in rural China. This qualitative study aimed to explore the critical role of village doctors in the end-of-life care of rural China amidst chall...
This study aimed to evaluate the implementation and impact of futile therapy (FT) protocols in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Poland.
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:273
There is limited evidence regarding the influencing factors associated with diverse types of spiritual needs in patients with terminal cancer. To investigate the spectrum of spiritual needs in patients with te...
Spiritual care in nursing involves addressing the spiritual needs of patients as part of their overall healthcare. It acknowledges that health is not just physical but also includes emotional, mental, and spir...
Patients with advanced cancer endure considerable physical and emotional distress without sufficient supportive care. This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between cancer-related symptoms, suppo...
Head and neck cancer is the seventh most prevalent cancer, with over 660,000 new cases and 325,000 annual fatalities, accounting for 30% of all cancer cases. Chronic cancer-related pain affects 15–75% of patie...
Relative’s efforts are essential when palliative care is provided at home and support from healthcare professionals is needed. Despite this, since the support provided varies, relatives may have unmet support ...
End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) significantly burdens healthcare systems and increases mortality. In India, approximately 175,000 individuals are relying on maintenance hemodialysis (mHD). This study aims to a...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects the quality of life of patients and their caregivers. Although palliative care can improve quality of life, COPD patients and their caregivers have limited ...
Previous studies have highlighted the significant impact of income on access to palliative care. However, few studies have explored the treatment preferences of low-income patients with advanced cancer. These ...
Advance directives are essential to advance care planning, allowing individuals to document their end-of-life care preferences in a living, legally binding document. Cultural factors such as collectivism and f...
Comprehensive care, which includes psychological support for pediatric palliative care (PPC) patients, addresses all aspects of the patient’s life. It focuses on managing disease-related challenges and identif...
Guidelines are essential tools for ensuring high-quality healthcare. However, discrepancies exist between their availability and practical implementation. In the context of palliative care, the extent to which...
Spirituality (including religiosity) is a powerful concept in Middle Eastern populations for members of all religious affiliations. This study aims to assess the desire of cancer and critically ill adult inpat...
The four-principles approach is widely incorporated into Chinese curricula and training programs in medicine. Notably, in the training of palliative care practitioners, the literature and the empirical evidenc...
Persons with dementia (PWD) and their carepartners must often make complex medical decisions, weighing the benefits of medical (surgical and non-surgical) interventions with uncertainty regarding outcomes, bot...
Young adults (YAs) with cancer of any stage face challenges and unmet needs across biopsychosocial domains. YAs who have rapidly declining health trajectories, or who enter end-of-life stage sooner-than-antici...
Patients experiencing end-stage heart failure are a particularly important population who carry with them a heavy disease burden. However, evidence related to palliative care for patients with end-stage heart ...
Patients with incurable but not-yet-biopsied cancers sometimes require urgent palliative radiation. However, wait-times for biopsy procedures and pathologic results can delay treatment, with significant conseq...
Leukemia is a life-threatening condition that imposes significant challenges not only on patients but also on their caregivers. Caregiver burden, a multidimensional concept encompassing physical, psychological...
The palliative Internet-based outpatient service ensures seamless connectivity and equitable patient care; however, there is a lack of research on service quality, as well as the experiences and perceptions of...
Palliative care is for people suffering from life-limiting illnesses that focuses on providing relief from symptoms and stress of illness. Previous studies have demonstrated that specialist palliative care con...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:17
Alleviating suffering and preserving dignity are essential components of healthcare. Patients in need of palliative care often require opioid medication to relieve breathlessness and pain. However, a lack of a...
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