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Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) are important stakeholders and gatekeepers in resuscitation decision-making. This systematic review explored the views and attitudes of HCPs on do-not-attempt-cardiopulmonary re...
A public health approach to palliative care has been developed in adult palliative care over several years. Despite the concepts of health and wellbeing, and palliation, dying and death appearing at first to b...
The levels of support needs among people bereaved due to cancer are high; however, bereavement support services are underutilised. Reasons are unknown. We aimed to examine the relationship of caregiving burden...
The loss of meaning in life often underpins a desire to die, while rediscovering purpose and forming relationships can restore the will to live. This pursuit of meaning and the ability to express one’s identit...
Death anxiety in physicians is considered to be a possible factor affecting the quality of palliative care. As the reserve force of future medical careers, the level of death anxiety among clinical medical fre...
According to the concept of Total Pain proposed by Cicely Saunders (1967), the treatment of pain for patients in need of palliative care requires considering its multidimensional nature, encompassing physical,...
Palliative care leadership is characterized by diversity and collaboration, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary teamwork and shared responsibility. In the context of palliative care, the leadership role is s...
The growing preference for home-based end-of-life care accords a dignified death for terminally ill patients. However, for healthcare professionals (HCPs) involved, this caregiving approach is embedded with un...
In Taiwan, psychiatric patients often face premature judgments regarding cognitive impairment, emotional instability, communication barriers, or issues related to guardianship rights due to their psychiatric d...
Family caregivers of patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) undergoing hemodialysis play a crucial yet demanding role in patient care. Understanding their experiences and needs is essential for improving...
Palliative care is essential for enhancing quality of life in patients with life-threatening illnesses. However, its accessibility remains inconsistent across populations and regions. This review systematicall...
Given the wide prevalence of advanced illness and frailty among residents in long-term care (LTC), a palliative approach to care can support comfort and quality of life. Yet, significant gaps exist with the pr...
Voluntary assisted dying has become available as an end-of-life choice in many countries, including Australia. There is evidence on the mixed impact of voluntary assisted dying legislation on palliative care h...
Dying is a complex process comprised of physical, social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and interpersonal relationship factors that contribute to both good and bad death experiences. Bad deaths have hist...
Indigenous people are the most vulnerable and marginalised parts of society. Health services available to the tribal people are in developing face when compared to non-indigenous people. The situation with pal...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:43
Despite rising importance of integration of palliative medicine in treating life-threatening illnesses in intensive care units (ICU), the extent remains unknown. Using billing data, we analysed the frequency o...
The Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) enables patients to reflect on, identify and prioritise their own support needs from a holistic perspective and enable tailored support. Therefore, the aim of thi...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:31
As global life expectancy increases, the need for palliative care grows. Recognizing the deeply personal and diverse nature of individuals’ end-of-life experiences, palliative care for home-dwelling patients r...
Globally, end-of-life care is vital for individuals in their final months or years, emphasizing comfort and dignity. However, the provision of palliative care in low-resource countries, such as Ghana, remains ...
Chronic mental diseases are enduring and recurring, and need constant care and a collaborative approach for management. Based on clinical guidelines, family interventions can improve the quality of care for in...
Terminally ill children (TIC) in pediatric palliative care often encounter psychological deprivation due to isolation, impacting their self-discovery and identity formation. The Young Pioneer Voluntary Teams (...
Palliative care needs rounds have been introduced to improve palliative and end-of-life care in residential aged care homes. As part of the Australian Government initiative ‘Comprehensive Palliative Care in Ag...
Integrated patient-centred palliative care for cancer patients is widely advocated internationally, but promoting it often proves difficult. The literature suggests that one key factor is physicians’ perspecti...
Cancer patients treated with palliative intent often report anxiety. Anxiety is associated with dyspnoea, cancer pain, and reduced quality of life. Limited knowledge on variability and treatment effects warran...
Death coping ability is a critical professional skill for palliative care nurses. This study aimed to identify subgroups of death coping ability among Chinese palliative care nurses based on their assessments ...
The term “end-of-life” care refers to the physical, social, spiritual, and emotional assistance provided to people near the end of their lives. Throughout history, gender has profoundly impacted many of the de...
Many bereaved individuals suffer from intense grief, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. To prevent these conditions from worsening, web-based grief interventions have emerged as a promisin...
Delirium is a serious neuropsychiatric syndrome, which is common amongst terminally ill people in the community. District nurses have a key role in supporting terminally ill people to remain at home.
The negative impact of over-treatment in end-of-life individuals has led to attention to the value of death. Reassessing the attitude of death and dying can improve care and improve the quality of life. Theref...
Loneliness is a quality-of-life (QoL) concern for patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses. Discerning risk factors of loneliness in palliative care patients allows providers to take preventative actio...
Providing patient centered palliative care is essential to enhance the wellbeing of patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families. As the demand for palliative care services increases and the cancer...
Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of mortality, morbidity, and rehospitalization in Appalachia. Rural areas have the highest HF mortality rates. Rural Appalachians lack access to health services and end-...
While telehealth may offer promise for accessible, efficient palliative care delivery, leveraging telehealth technologies as an opportunity to better understand and advance the science of palliative care commu...
Prognostication of survival among patients with advanced cancer is essential for palliative care (PC) planning. The implementation of a clinical point-of-care prognostic model may inform clinicians and facilit...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:239
Telehealth is increasingly used in palliative care and its application is seen as one possible solution to improve access to palliative care services, thereby providing additional support for patients with adv...
Four medication types—opioids, benzodiazepines, anticholinergics, and antipsychotics—have been proposed as essential for patients in their final days, regardless of their primary diagnosis. These drugs are typ...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that significantly impacts individuals and families. Previous research on ALS has predominantly focused on its pathophy...
The Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale for People with Dementia (IPOS-Dem) was developed as a promising person-centred proxy measure of symptoms and concerns. We used the Swiss-German easy-read version, ...
The timely initiation of end-of-life (EOL) conversations is considerered best practice for patients with advanced cancer and therefore recommended in oncological guidelines. General practitioners (GPs) play a ...
Communication is central to implementing palliative care (PC) and effective interdisciplinary team functioning. Communication about existential issues is often urgent in PC, yet interdisciplinary teams frequen...
Palliative care aims to ensure a dignified and self-determined life for people facing the end of life. While palliative care is established for tumor diseases, it’s notably absent from German medical guideline...
The concept of death is one of the most significant issues in the nursing profession. To provide effective and comprehensive end-of-life care, nursing students, as future nurses, should have spiritual well-bei...
Male breast cancer is extremely uncommon, accounting for less than 1% of all male cancers and about 0.1% of male cancer deaths. It tends to occur in an older age group (60–70 s) when compared to women (50–60 s...
Approximately 80% of patients with advanced heart failure (HF) die within five years of diagnosis and may benefit from palliative care (PC). PC is underutilized in HF patients. One barrier is nurses’ insuffici...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:75
HIV is still an incurable disease, causing many problems in the daily lives of patients and affecting their overall quality of life. Previous studies have shown that advanced AIDS patients have more serious ph...
Delirium is a common and distressing mental disorder in palliative care. To date, no delirium prediction model is available for thepalliative care population. The research aimed to develop and validate a nomog...
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