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  1. In most developed countries, Health Care Assistants comprise a significant, and growing, proportion of the residential aged care workforce. Despite the fact that they provide the majority of direct care for re...

    Authors: Susan Fryer, Gary Bellamy, Tessa Morgan and Merryn Gott
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:78
  2. Even though struggling with similar symptom burden, patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) receive less palliative care than patients suffering from malignant diseases. Researchers have found that this migh...

    Authors: Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin, Katharina Seibel, Gerhild Becker and Stefan Köberich
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:76
  3. Medical errors have been recognized as a relevant public health concern and research efforts to improve patient safety have increased. In palliative care, however, studies on errors are rare and mainly focus o...

    Authors: Isabel Kiesewetter, Christian Schulz, Claudia Bausewein, Rita Fountain and Andrea Schmitz
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:75
  4. Respiratory secretions impact negatively on palliative patients. Unfortunately, a gold standard therapy is not yet available. The purpose of this study was to identify which interventions are in use to control...

    Authors: Juliano Ferreira Arcuri, Ebun Abarshi, Nancy J. Preston, Jenny Brine and Valéria Amorim Pires Di Lorenzo
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:74
  5. Children with chronic complex-medical conditions comprise a small minority of children who require substantial healthcare with major implications for hospital utilization and costs in pediatrics. Community-Bas...

    Authors: Jeffrey Goldhagen, Mark Fafard, Kelly Komatz, Terry Eason and William C. Livingood
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:73

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:82

  6. Cancer and its treatment have a major impact on the lives of patients and their intimate partners, such as on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The aims of this study are to: (i) assess the HRQOL o...

    Authors: Qiuping Li, Yinghua Xu, Huiya Zhou and Alice Yuen Loke
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:72
  7. Palliative care aims to provide maximum comfort to the patient. However it is unknown what factors facilitate or hinder the experience of comfort, from the perspective of inpatients of palliative care units. T...

    Authors: Adriana Coelho, Vitor Parola, Miguel Escobar-Bravo and João Apóstolo
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:71
  8. The balance between hope-hopelessness plays an important role in the way terminally ill patients report quality of life, and personal resilience may be related to hope at the end of life. The objective of this...

    Authors: Joao Paulo Consentino Solano, Amanda Gomes da Silva, Ivan Agurtov Soares, Hazem Adel Ashmawi and Joaquim Edson Vieira
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:70
  9. There is a gap between readily available evidence of best practice and its use in everyday palliative care. The IMPACT study evaluated the potential of facilitated use of Quality Indicators as tools to improve...

    Authors: Steve Iliffe, Nathan Davies, Jill Manthorpe, Peter Crome, Sam H Ahmedzai, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen and Yvonne Engels
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:69
  10. The end of life for someone with dementia can present many challenges for practitioners; such as, providing care if there are swallowing difficulties. This study aimed to develop a toolkit of heuristics (rules...

    Authors: Nathan Davies, Rammya Mathew, Jane Wilcock, Jill Manthorpe, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Kethakie Lamahewa and Steve Iliffe
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:68

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:77

  11. The concerns of undergraduate nursing and medical students’ regarding end of life care are well documented. Many report feelings of emotional distress, anxiety and a lack of preparation to provide care to pati...

    Authors: Claire Lewis, Joanne Reid, Zara McLernon, Rory Ingham and Marian Traynor
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:67
  12. Hospitalized palliative patients need to keep in touch with their loved ones. Regular social contact may be especially difficult for individuals on palliative care in-patient units due to the isolating nature ...

    Authors: Qiaohong Guo, Beverley Cann, Susan McClement, Genevieve Thompson and Harvey Max Chochinov
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:66
  13. Regionalization promotes planning and coordination of services across settings and providers to meet population needs. Despite the potential advantages of regionalization, no regional hospice palliative care p...

    Authors: José Pereira, Jocelyne Contant, Gwen Barton and Christopher Klinger
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:65
  14. Government policy is a fundamental component of initiating change to improve the provision of palliative care at a national level. The World Health Organisation’s recognition of palliative care as a basic huma...

    Authors: Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott, Clare Gardiner and Christine Ingleton
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:64
  15. Physicians working in critical and intensive care settings encounter death of chronic incurable patients on a daily basis; however they have scant skills on how to communicate with the patients and their famil...

    Authors: Nana Chikhladze, Elene Janberidze, Mariam Velijanashvili, Nikoloz Chkhartishvili, Memed Jintcharadze, Julia Verne and Dimitri Kordzaia
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:63
  16. In the Northern Territory (NT) there is a lack of respite services available to palliative care patients and their families. Indigenous people in the NT suffer substantially higher rates of poorly controlled c...

    Authors: Timothy A. Carey, Kellie Schouten, John Wakerman, John S. Humphreys, Fred Miegel, Simon Murphy and Mick Arundell
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:62
  17. Implementation of quality improvements in palliative care (PC) is challenging, and detailed knowledge about factors that may facilitate or hinder implementation is essential for success. One part of the EU-fun...

    Authors: Ragni Sommerbakk, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Aksel Tjora, Stein Kaasa and Marianne Jensen Hjermstad
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:61
  18. Compassionate support at the end of life should not be the responsibility of health and social care professionals alone and requires a response from the wider community. Volunteers, as community members, are a...

    Authors: Catherine Walshe, Guillermo Perez Algorta, Steven Dodd, Matthew Hill, Nick Ockenden, Sheila Payne and Nancy Preston
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:60

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:98

  19. Bereavement groups are believed to be beneficial as preventive interventions to reduce the development of complicated grief for people at risk after the death of a significant other. This study aimed to invest...

    Authors: Ulla Näppä, Ann-Britt Lundgren and Bertil Axelsson
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:58
  20. Variation in provision of palliative care in kidney services and practitioner concerns to provide equitable access led to the development of this study which focussed on the perspectives of South Asian patient...

    Authors: Emma Wilkinson, Gurch Randhawa, Edwina Brown, Maria Da Silva Gane, John Stoves, Graham Warwick, Tahira Akhtar, Regina Magee, Sue Sharman and Ken Farrington
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:57
  21. Integrated Palliative Care (PC) strategies are often implemented following models, namely standardized designs that provide frameworks for the organization of care for people with a progressive life-threatenin...

    Authors: Naouma Siouta, K. Van Beek, M. E. van der Eerden, N. Preston, J. G. Hasselaar, S. Hughes, E. Garralda, C. Centeno, A. Csikos, M. Groot, L. Radbruch, S. Payne and J. Menten
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:56
  22. Most people with advanced dementia die in nursing homes where families may have to make decisions as death approaches. Discussions about end-of-life care between families and nursing home staff are uncommon, d...

    Authors: Geena Saini, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Sarah Davis, Nuriye Kupeli, Jane Harrington, Gerard Leavey, Irwin Nazareth, Louise Jones and Kirsten J. Moore
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:55
  23. Research on perinatal bereavement services is limited. The aim of the study was to compare the uptake of bereavement support services between two tertiary neonatal units (NNU), and to investigate influencing f...

    Authors: Jayanta Banerjee, Charanjit Kaur, Sridhar Ramaiah, Rahul Roy and Narendra Aladangady
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:54
  24. There are approximately 426,000 people residing within care homes in the UK. Residents often have complex trajectories of dying, which make it difficult for staff to manage their end-of-life care. There is gro...

    Authors: Mary O’Brien, Jennifer Kirton, Katherine Knighting, Brenda Roe and Barbara Jack
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:53
  25. Frail older people are an increasingly important group in primary care due to demographic change. For these patients, a palliative care approach may be useful to sustain the quality of life in the last phase o...

    Authors: Karin Geiger, Nils Schneider, Jutta Bleidorn, Katharina Klindtworth, Saskia Jünger and Gabriele Müller-Mundt
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:52
  26. The Brazilian healthcare system offers universal coverage but lacks information about how patients with PC needs are serviced by its primary care program, Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF).

    Authors: Fernando C. I. Marcucci, Marcos A. S. Cabrera, Anamaria Baquero Perilla, Marilia Maroneze Brun, Eder Marcos L. de Barros, Vanessa M. Martins, John P. Rosenberg and Patsy Yates
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:51
  27. Sedation is used to an increasing extent in end-of-life care. Definitions and indications in this field are based on expert opinions and case series. Little is known about this practice at palliative care unit...

    Authors: Sophie Schur, Dietmar Weixler, Christoph Gabl, Gudrun Kreye, Rudolf Likar, Eva Katharina Masel, Michael Mayrhofer, Franz Reiner, Barbara Schmidmayr, Kathrin Kirchheiner and Herbert Hans Watzke
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:50
  28. Integrated palliative care (IPC) involves bringing together administrative, organisational, clinical and service aspects in order to achieve continuity of care between all actors involved in the care network o...

    Authors: Eduardo Garralda, Jeroen Hasselaar, José Miguel Carrasco, Karen Van Beek, Naouma Siouta, Agnes Csikos, Johan Menten and Carlos Centeno
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:49
  29. Research has shown positive effects of music therapy on the physical and mental well-being of terminally ill patients. This study aimed to identify favored subjects and psychosocial needs of terminally ill can...

    Authors: Pia Preissler, Sarah Kordovan, Anneke Ullrich, Carsten Bokemeyer and Karin Oechsle
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:48
  30. With an increasing number of people dying in old age, collaboration between palliative care and geriatric medicine is increasingly being advocated in order to promote better health and health care for the incr...

    Authors: Gwenda Albers, K. Froggatt, L. Van den Block, G. Gambassi, P. Vanden Berghe, S. Pautex and N. Van Den Noortgate
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:47
  31. Historically, specialist palliative care has been accessed by a greater proportion of people dying with cancer compared to people with other life-limiting conditions. More recently, a variety of measures to im...

    Authors: Lorna Rosenwax, Katrina Spilsbury, Beverley A. McNamara and James B. Semmens
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:46
  32. Chinese tradition and culture developed from Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism and have influenced ethnic Chinese for thousands of years, particularly thoughts on death. Many ethnic Chinese, particularly olde...

    Authors: Hsin-Tzu Sophie Lee, Shu-Chen Cheng, Yu-Tzu Dai, Mei Chang and Wen-Yu Hu
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:45
  33. Intra-abdominal placement of the Central Venous Catheter (CVC) was conducted to manage the ascites-related symptoms of non-ovarian cancer patients. The aim of this study is to document the efficacy of symptom ...

    Authors: Xiaoli Gu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Menglei Cheng, Minghui Liu, Zhe Zhang and Wenwu Cheng
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:44
  34. Agreed terminology used in systematic reviews of the effectiveness of specialist palliative care ((S)PC)) is required to ensure consistency and usability and to help guide future similar reviews and the design...

    Authors: Jan Gaertner, Waldemar Siemens, Barbara A. Daveson, Melinda Smith, Catherine J. Evans, Irene J. Higginson and Gerhild Becker
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:43
  35. Certain advanced chronic conditions (heart failure, chronic lung disease) are associated with high mortality. Nevertheless, most of the time, patients with these conditions are not given the same level of atte...

    Authors: I. Martín-Lesende, E. Recalde, P. Viviane-Wunderling, T. Pinar, F. Borghesi, T. Aguirre, M. Recio, ME Martínez and J. Asua
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:42
  36. The leading cause of death among young children in southern Africa is complications due to HIV infection and, in South Africa, over a third of all deaths of children younger than five are associated with HIV i...

    Authors: Sara Naomi Naicker, Linda Richter, Alan Stein, Laura Campbell and Joan Marston
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:41
  37. Integrating palliative care (PC) and empowering the health care workforce is essential to achieve universal access to PC services. In 2010, 46 % of patients in Mulago Hospital, Uganda had a life limiting illne...

    Authors: Julia Downing, Mwazi Batuli, Grace Kivumbi, Josephine Kabahweza, Liz Grant, Scott A. Murray, Elizabeth Namukwaya and Mhoira Leng
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:40
  38. Palliative care is mainly restricted to terminal care. General practitioners (GPs) are not trained to early identify palliative patients with cancer, COPD or heart failure. With the help of the RADboud indicat...

    Authors: Bregje Thoonsen, Marieke Groot, Stans Verhagen, Chris van Weel, Kris Vissers and Yvonne Engels
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:39
  39. Current evidence suggests that palliative care education can improve preregistration nursing students’ competencies in palliative care. However, it is not known whether these competencies are translated into s...

    Authors: Nahyeni Bassah, Karen Cox and Jane Seymour
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:37
  40. Empirical knowledge around palliative care provision and needs of people with intellectual disabilities is extremely limited, as is the availability of research resources, including expertise and funding. This...

    Authors: I. Tuffrey-Wijne, M. Wicki, P. Heslop, M. McCarron, S. Todd, D. Oliver, A. de Veer, G. Ahlström, S. Schäper, G. Hynes, J. O’Farrell, J. Adler, F. Riese and L. Curfs
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:36
  41. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth cause of death in western countries. Its final stage has clearly been forgotten by medical research in recent years. There exists consensus regarding ...

    Authors: Daniel Gainza Miranda, Eva María Sanz Peces, Alberto Alonso Babarro, Maria Concepción Prados Sánchez and María Varela Cerdeira
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:35
  42. Postgraduate medical trainees are not well prepared difficult conversations about goals of care with patients and families in the acute care clinical setting. While contextual nuances within the workplace can ...

    Authors: Amanda L Roze des Ordons, Jocelyn Lockyer, Michael Hartwick, Aimee Sarti and Rola Ajjawi
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:34
  43. Oncologists routinely prescribe chemotherapy for patients with advanced cancer. This practice is sometimes misunderstood by palliative care clinicians, yet data clearly show that chemotherapy can be a powerful...

    Authors: EJ Roeland and TW LeBlanc
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:33
  44. This study assessed the symptom severity of patients with advanced cancer in a palliative care unit and explored the factors associated with symptom improvement.

    Authors: Shu-Yu Tai, Chung-Yin Lee, Chien-Yi Wu, Hui-Ya Hsieh, Joh-Jong Huang, Chia-Tsuan Huang and Chen-Yu Chien
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:32
  45. The majority of people with dementia in the UK die in care homes. The quality of end of life care in these environments is often suboptimal. The aim of the present study was to explore the context, mechanisms ...

    Authors: Nuriye Kupeli, Gerard Leavey, Kirsten Moore, Jane Harrington, Kathryn Lord, Michael King, Irwin Nazareth, Elizabeth L. Sampson and Louise Jones
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:31
  46. Parents facing the death of their child have a strong need for compassionate professional support. Care services should be based on empirical evidence, be sensitive to the needs of the families concerned, take...

    Authors: Karin Zimmermann, Eva Bergstraesser, Sandra Engberg, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet, Katrin Marfurt-Russenberger, Nicolas Von der Weid, Chantal Grandjean, Patricia Fahrni-Nater and Eva Cignacco
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:30

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:16

  47. No data exist on the size of the population potentially in need of palliative care in Germany. The aim of this study is to estimate the size of the German population that may benefit from palliative care.

    Authors: Nadine Scholten, Anna Lena Günther, Holger Pfaff and Ute Karbach
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:29

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