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Serious adverse event reporting guidelines have largely been developed for pharmaceutical trials. There is evidence that serious adverse events, such as psychological distress, can also occur in non-pharmaceut...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:19
Specialist palliative care (SPC) providers tend to use the term ‘complex’ to refer to the needs of patients who require SPC. However, little is known about complex needs on first referral to a SPC service. We ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:18
Many children with serious illnesses are receiving palliative and end-of-life care from pediatric palliative and hospice care teams at home (PPHC@Home). Despite the growth in PPHC@Home, no standardized measure...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:17
Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) account for less than 1% of all malignancies. Approximately 50% of the patients develop metastases with limited survival in the course of their disease. For those patients, palliativ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:16
Effective communication in support of clinical decision-making is central to the pediatric cancer care experience for families. A new laboratory derived pharmacogenetic test (LDT) that can diagnose difficult-t...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:15
China holds one fifth of the world’s population and faces a rapidly aging society. In its ambition to reach a health care standard comparable to developed countries by 2030, the implementation of palliative ca...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:14
Artificial nutrition and hydration do not prolong survival or improve clinical symptoms of terminally ill cancer patients. Nonetheless, little is known about the effect of artificial hydration (AH) alone on pa...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:13
Huntington’s disease (HD) has a poor prognosis. Decision-making capacity and communication ability may become lost as the disease progresses. Therefore, HD patients are encouraged to engage in advance care pla...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:12
Palliative care day services provide a safe environment for people with palliative care needs, enabling them to access a range of services while acting as a respite services for family caregivers. Viewed as ma...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:11
Observational studies investigating risk factors in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not considered the confounding effects of advanced care planning, such that a valid picture of risk for elderly, fra...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:10
South Africa is a very diverse middle-income country, still deeply divided by the legacy of its colonial and apartheid past. As part of a larger study, this article explored the experiences and views of repres...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:9
Palliative care improves the quality of lives of patients and families affected by advanced illnesses through the prevention and relief of suffering. While palliative care is well established in developed coun...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:8
For cancer patients and their family, an important factor that determines the choice to die at home is the caregivers’ feeling of security when caring for the patient at home. Support to caregivers from health...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:7
Patient participation is a key foundation of advance care planning (ACP). However, a patient himself/herself may be left out from sensitive conversations such as end-of-life (EOL) care discussions. The objecti...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:6
The aging of migrant populations across Europe challenges researchers in palliative care to produce knowledge that can be used to respond to the needs of the growing group of patients with a migration backgrou...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:5
Coverage of palliative care in low and middle-income countries is very limited, and global projections suggest large increases in need. Novel approaches are needed to achieve the palliative care goals of Unive...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:4
Those who survive critical illness only to become chronically critically ill (CCI) experience a high symptom burden, repeat episodes of illness exacerbation, communication barriers, and poor health outcomes. Y...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:3
The term ‘life limiting conditions’ refers to premature death following decline from chronic conditions, which is a common circumstance in which occupational therapists work with people at the end of life. The...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:2
Opioid-induced constipation (OIC) is a frequent and bothersome adverse event related with opioid therapy in cancer patients. Despite the high prevalence, medical management of OIC is often uncertain. The curre...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:1
Despite known benefits, advance care planning (ACP) is rarely a component of usual practice in long-term care (LTC). A series of tools and workbooks have been developed to support ACP uptake amongst the genera...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:179
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 462,417 deaths worldwide. A large number of patients with severe COVID-19 face death in hospital. Hospice care is truly a philosophy of care that delivers patient-cen...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:188
The provision and quality of end-of-life care (EoLC) in Germany is inconsistent. Therefore, an evaluation of current EoLC based on quality indicators is needed. This study aims to evaluate EoLC in Germany on t...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:187
Informal caregivers (IC) are often overshadowed by the attention required by the terminally ill. This study aims to reveal the estimated proportion of caregiver burden, psychological manifestations and factors...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:186
Patients suffering from gastrointestinal cancer comprise a large group receiving home hospice care in China, however, little is known about the prediction of their survival time. This study aimed to develop a ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:185
In contrast to typical measures employed to assess outcomes in healthcare such as mortality or recovery rates, it is difficult to define which specific outcomes of care are the most important in caring for dyi...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:184
The Liverpool care pathway for the dying patient (LCP) is a multidisciplinary tool developed for the dying phase for use in palliative care settings. The literature reports divergent experiences with its appli...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:183
Towards the end of life, use of opioid analgesics becomes more common in patients to control pain and improve quality of life. While pain medication may help manage pain, unwanted cognitive side effects are fr...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:182
In end-of-life patients with advanced cancers, oral examination, oral care, and oral re-examination are crucial. Although oral symptoms are among the major complaints of end-of-life patients, few studies have ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:181
Limited comprehension of the concept of palliative care and misconceptions about it are barriers to meaningful utilisation of palliative care programs. As caregivers play an integral role for patients with ter...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:180
To culturally adapt and validate the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale to European Portuguese.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:178
Providing patient-centered care (PCC) during the last year of life (LYOL) can be challenging due to the complexity of the patients’ medical, social and psychological needs, especially in case of chronic illnes...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:177
The prognosis of patients with incurable head and neck cancer (HNC) is a relevant topic. The mean survival of these patients is 5 months but may vary from weeks to more than 3 years. Discussing the prognosis e...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:176
Worldwide, many patients with cancer, are infrequently referred to palliative care or are referred late. Oncologists and haematologists may act as gatekeepers, and their views may facilitate or hinder referral...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:175
To support the early integration of palliative home care (PHC) in cancer treatment, we developed the EPHECT intervention and pilot tested it with 30 advanced cancer patients in Belgium using a pre post design ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:174
In the absence of extant recommendations, the aim of this study was to formalise support practices used by an interdisciplinary team in a palliative-care unit (PCU) for the relatives of patients in the agonal ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:173
Continuous subcutaneous infusion (CSCI) via ambulatory infusion pump (AIP) is a valuable method of pain control in palliative care. When using CSCI, low-dose methadone as add-on to other opioids might be an op...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:172
The linguistic and cultural diversity found in European societies creates specific challenges to palliative care clinicians. Patients’ heterogeneous habits, beliefs and social situations, and in many cases lan...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:171
The disparities in access to pediatric palliative care and pain management in Latin America remains an unaddressed global health issue. Efforts to improve the development of Palliative Care (PC) provision have...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:170
Physicians experience high rates of burnout, which may negatively impact patient care. Palliative care is an emotionally demanding specialty with high burnout rates reported in previous studies from other coun...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:169
End-of-life (EOL) conversations are highly important for patients living with life-threatening diseases and for their relatives. Talking about the EOL is associated with reduced costs and better quality of car...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:168
The predictive value of the prognostic tool for patients with advanced cancer is uncertain in mainland China, especially in the home-based palliative care (HPC) setting. This study aimed to compare the accurac...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:167
Clinical cancer research trials may offer little or no direct clinical benefit to participants where a cure is no longer possible. As such, the decision-making and consent process for patient participation is ...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:166
The main goal of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is to improve or maintain the best possible quality of life (QoL) for the child and their family. PPC can be provided in community health centres, within the sp...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:165
Although rehabilitation is recommended for terminal cancer patients, the specific components and methods of such programs are poorly documented. No studies to date have examined the effectiveness of rehabilita...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:164
Delirium is highly problematic in palliative care (PC). Preliminary data indicate a potential role for melatonin to prevent delirium, but no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are reported in PC.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:163
This study examined phenomenological manifestations of delirium in advanced cancer patients by examining the factor structure of the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R-98) and profiles of delirium symptoms.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:162
The aim of this study was to optimize a Question Prompt List which is designed to improve communication about the heart failure trajectory among patients, family members, and health care professionals.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:161
Most terminally ill cancer patients prefer to die at home, but a majority die in institutional settings. Research questions about this discrepancy have not been fully answered. This study applies artificial in...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:160
Volunteer navigation is an innovative way to help older persons get connected to resources in their community that they may not know about or have difficulty accessing. Nav-CARE is an intervention in which vol...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:159
With a growing world population, a longer life expectancy, and more deaths due to chronic diseases, the need for palliative care is increasing. Palliative care aims to alleviate suffering and to promote well-b...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:158
Citation Impact
2.015 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.65 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.407 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.056 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
356,530 Downloads
Social Media Impact
1831 Mentions