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Palliative care in people with dementia

Guest Editors:
Emmanuelle Belanger, PhD, Brown University School of Public Health, USA
Hum Yin Mei Allyn, MRCP, MCI, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education, Singapore
Nuriye Kupeli, MSc, PhD, University College London, UK
Nicola White, MSc, PhD, University College London, UK

Submission Status: Open until 18 December 2025

Home-based palliative care

Guest Editors
Arun Ghoshal, MD, MRes, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, India
Heidi Holmen, RN, PhD, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Submission Status: Open until 10 November 2025

Rural health and palliative care

Guest Editors
Marie Anne Bakitas, DNSc, CRNP, NP-C, AOCN, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Brystana Kaufman, PhD, MSPH, Duke University School of Medicine and Durham VA Medical Center, USA
Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas, PhD, MSc, BSN, BSL, Latin American Observatory of Palliative Care and Health Care and Universidad El Bosque in Bogotá, Colombia

Submission Status: Open until 31 October 2025

Neonatal-perinatal palliative care

Guest Editors
Narendra Aladangady, MBBS, MD, FHEA, FRCPCH, PhD, Homerton University Hospital, UK
DonnaMaria Cortezzo, MD, Connecticut Children's Medical Center and University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA
Laure Dombrecht, PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University, Belgium
Matthew Lin, MD, HEC-C, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, USA

Submission Status: Open until 25 August 2025

Artificial intelligence and palliative care

Guest Editors
Matthew Allsop, PhD, CPsychol, University of Leeds, UK
Karl Arthur Lorenz, MD, MSHS, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Christoph Ostgath, Dr med, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany

Submission Status: Open until 23 July 2025

Published

Telehealth in palliative care

Guest Editors
Julia I. Bandini, PhD, RAND, USA
Isaac Shin Chua, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

Palliative sedation

Guest Editors
Carsten Klein, Dr med, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
Sheila Payne, BA(hons), PhD, DipN, RGN, CPsychol, Lancaster University, UK
Lenzo Robijn, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Séverine Marie Surges, Dr med, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

Cultural considerations in palliative care

Guest Editors
Qiaohong Guo, PhD, Capital Medical University, China
Catheryn S. Koss, JD, PhD, Sacramento State University, USA
Rebecca Jane Wright, PhD, BSc (Hons), RN, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, USA

Palliative rehabilitation

Guest Editors
May Aasebø Hauken, RN, cand.polit., PhD, University of Bergen, Norway
Lise Nottelmann, MD, PhD, Aarhus University, Denmark
Line M. Oldervoll, PhD, University of Bergen, Norway
Marc Sampedro Pilegaard, OT, MSc, PhD, Gødstrup Hospital, DEFACTUM, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dorothy W. Tolchin, MD, EdM, Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham, USA

Ethics in palliative care

Guest Editors
Mariana Dittborn, MD, MSc, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile and Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK
Suzanne Metselaar, PhD, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands
Guy Schofield, MBBS, MA, PhD, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, University of Bristol, UK

Palliative care in patients with heart failure

Guest Editors:
Valentina González-Jaramillo, MD, PhD: University Center for Palliative Care, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Switzerland
Susanna Mak, MD, PhD: University of Toronto, Canada
Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL: University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, USA

Pain management in palliative care

Guest Editors:
Guillaume Economos, MD, PhD: Hospices Civils de Lyon, France
Sebastiano Mercadante, MD: La Maddalena Cancer Center, Italy

Digital health and new technologies in palliative care

Guest Editors:
Mark Taubert, FRCP, FRCGP, FLSW: Velindre University NHS Trust and Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK
Simon Tavabie, MRCP: University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Pediatric palliative care

Guest Editors:
Laure Dombrecht, PhD: End-of-Life Care Research Group, Belgium
Ana Lacerda, MD: Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Lisbon, Portugal
Jennifer Snaman, MD: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH: Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Equity and diversity in palliative care

Guest Editors:
Jonathan Koffman, BA, MSc, PhD: Hull York Medical School, UK
Christian Schulz-Quach, MD, MSc, MA, MRCPSych: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada
Gilla K. Shapiro, MA (Cantab), MPP/MPA, PhD: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

Palliative care in severe mental illnesses

Guest Editors:
Bárbara Antunes, MSc, PhD: University of Cambridge, UK
Eva Katharina Masel, MD, PhD, MSc: Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Christian Schulz-Quach, MD, MSc, MA, MRCPSych: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

Spirituality in palliative care

Guest Editors:
Michael Connolly, PhD: University College Dublin, Ireland
Barry Quinn, PhD: Queen’s University Belfast, UK

2015

Palliative care, spiritual care and chaplaincy: The current landscape

Collection published: 15 March 2015