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Advance care planning is an important part of palliative care. Public acceptance is a prerequisite for the widespread development and implementation of advance care planning. However, little is known about the...
Patients with advanced chronic non-malignant conditions often experience significant symptom burden. Therefore, overcoming barriers to interprofessional collaboration between general practitioners (GPs) and sp...
Studies investigating notions of a ‘good death’ tend to focus on specific medical conditions and specific groups of people. Therefore, their results are often poorly comparable, making it difficult to anticipa...
Anticipatory grief has been shown to be highly prevalent among family caregivers of patients with advanced illness. However, there is less research on the anticipatory grief of family caregivers with chronic h...
In the current era of rapid technological development, digital technology is progressively transforming the medical field. In palliative care, its integration is an inevitable trend, offering new possibilities...
Bereavement is a crucial physiological process in palliative care; grief-processing disorders can be diagnosed at least 6 months after death and can have severe clinical or psychological consequences. This stu...
The Surprise Question (SQ) - Would you be surprised if this patient died within the next 6 months? - is a validated tool for mortality prediction. The Mount Sinai Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) incorporated t...
Numerous studies have pointed out the benefits of family meetings, but it is unclear who uses family meetings and what the effects are on use of the end-of-life care.
Having a hematological malignancy increases the risk of a poor-quality end of life and of dying in intensive care. There is no prognostic score to predict survival on admission to intensive care, but many pati...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:153
With an increased number of people living with multiple progressive diseases, online education courses have been created to address the growing need for competence in palliative care. However, there is limited...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:23
Web-based interventions targeted at family caregivers has become a quickly expanding research field, none the least since a growing number of patients with incurable illness are being cared for at home. Spouse...
The psychosocial needs of families in which a parent is affected by life-threatening illness and has dependent children are extensive. However, few family-based interventions have been scientifically evaluated...
Specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV) is a component of palliative care in Germany, which assists approximately 10% of palliative patients. The majority of these patients have a malignant disease and a...
Early palliative care interventions in oncology, as recommended by international oncology societies, promote patient understanding and support decision-making. At the same time, shared decision-making models a...
Palliative Sedation (PS) at the end of life is practiced and perceived differently by health professionals depending on the geographical location in which they provide their health care. Taking into account th...
Maintaining quality of care and improving the quality of life (QOL) of patients and their families are important issues in palliative care. Therefore, there is a need to continuously evaluate the quality and o...
Predicting the survival time of patients at the end of life can provide more accurate treatment and care programs for patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors impacting 14-day surviva...
People experiencing homelessness access specialist palliative care late in their illness trajectory, if at all. There is also little evidence they receive generalist palliative care or are given opportunities ...
One in five people will be older than 60 by the year 2050 in India. This demographic transition demands integration of geriatric and palliative care. The national level burden of palliative and supportive care...
Heart rate (HR) monitoring is a medical standard to provide information about a patient’s health status. In palliative care, relationship and social engagement are crucial therapeutic concepts. For fear of dis...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:113
To explore the experiences and perceptions of oncology nurses providing hospice care in Chinese mainland.
Existing estimates of palliative care need in the UK were produced before the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to produce updated, population-level estimates of palliative care need for each of the four UK nations...
In paediatric palliative care, children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions, their families, and their health care professionals often face difficult decisions about treatment, goals of care, an...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:244
Health and social care professionals (professionals) often lack knowledge, skills and confidence to support adults at end of life with significant caregiving responsibilities for children, < 18. A recent syste...
Incurable cancer is a major contributor to societal suffering and disability, and palliative rehabilitation is recommended to be integrated within and between cancer services at all healthcare levels. However,...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:250
When there is limited access to primary care or end-of-life services for patients with chronic diseases, caregivers often need to bring their loved ones to emergency departments (EDs) to solve or control distr...
Palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) faces challenges despite the high number of patients in need. To provide accessible, affordable, and timely services, it is crucial to adopt a suitable...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:183
Our study assesses the current knowledge and prior awareness of undergraduate medical students in Pakistan regarding palliative care.
Providing high-quality end-of-life care is currently a paramount health priority. Given that the standard of care is intrinsically linked to nurses’ motivations, it is becoming too imperative to explore the co...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2025 24:26
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a rapid increase in the use of virtual consultations across healthcare. Post-pandemic, this use is expected to continue alongside the resumption of traditional face-to-face clinics...
Cancer remains a global health concern, with nearly 20 million new cancer cases and approximately 10 million cancer-related deaths reported in 2020.An increasing number of individuals with advanced-stage cance...
The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:240
Advance care planning (ACP) is a well-recognized quality indicator for palliative care. Despite two decades of effort, previous studies showed that ACP-related documentation and end-of-life discussion rates re...
The primary aim of this study is to elucidate the spiritual needs encountered by family members who intricately engage in the progression of illness within the palliative care framework, thus assuming the para...
Advance care planning (ACP) is pivotal in mitigating end-of-life suffering and ensuring healthcare congruence with the values of older adults and dignity in death. Despite its paramount importance, the current...
Many palliative cancer patients require inpatient hospital treatment for medical reasons, which contrasts their frequent desire to be at home. Virtual reality (VR) could be a way of bringing the home environme...
Spiritual support for patients and caregivers of critically ill patients is associated with improved quality of life. This aspect, however, is not incorporated into the current care pathways in Sri Lanka. The ...
Risk perception with respect to death is a prerequisite for patients with advanced cancer when the time comes to make medical decisions. However, the nature of death risk perception remains unclear.
Knowledge of health care utilization at the end of life in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is sparse. This study aims to investigate end of life health care utilization, characterized by emergency room (ER) visits, r...
Palliative care is becoming an essential component of healthcare, but there is insufficient research on how integration across different levels of care (micro, meso, and macro) is realized in practice. Without...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:266
Cancer affects not only the person with the disease but those around them. Being a family member is described as strenuous and, often, associated with stress, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. There is a hei...
Effective medication management is crucial for ensuring timely pain and symptom control at the end of life. Dying in pain is a major concern for patients, yet some find less effective pain control at home. Fam...
Cancer patients benefit from Virtual Reality (VR) in burdensome situations, but evidence is scarce for palliative situations. Based on earlier work in palliative care, individualized VR interventions like seei...
The growing number of terminally ill patients has underscored the importance of equipping healthcare workers with adequate palliative care knowledge and self-efficacy. This study aimed to compare the palliativ...
The prevalence of dementia is increasing worldwide and many people with the condition require some level of palliative care. However, the trajectories of function and symptom burden in palliative care services...
Through advocacy initiatives such as roadshows during “National ACP Week”, the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) had increased advance care planning (ACP) engagement since 2011. Project Happy Apples (PHA), a co...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2024 23:269
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