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  1. 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...

    Authors: Ze-hong Zheng, Zhong-chen Luo, You Zhang, Wallace Chi Ho Chan, Jian-qiong Li, Jin Pang, Yu-ling Jia and Jiao Tang
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:188
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. 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...

    Authors: Katharina van Baal, Sophie Schrader, Nils Schneider, Birgitt Wiese, Jona Theodor Stahmeyer, Sveja Eberhard, Siegfried Geyer, Stephanie Stiel and Kambiz Afshar
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:187
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  3. 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...

    Authors: Zati Sabrina Ahmad Zubaidi, Farnaza Ariffin, Cindy Teoh Cy Oun and Diana Katiman
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:186
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  4. 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 ...

    Authors: Muqing Wang, Xubin Jing, Weihua Cao, Yicheng Zeng, Chaofen Wu, Weilong Zeng, Wenxia Chen, Xi Hu, Yanna Zhou and Xianbin Cai
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:185
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  5. 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...

    Authors: Sofia C. Zambrano, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Agnes van der Heide, Vilma A. Tripodoro, John Ellershaw, Carl Johan Fürst, Raymond Voltz, Stephen Mason, María L. Daud, Gustavo De Simone, Kerstin Kremeike, Svandis Iris Halfdanardottir, Valgerdur Sigurdardottir, Jeremy Johnson, Simon Allan, Haroon Hafeez…
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:184
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. 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...

    Authors: Maartje S. Klapwijk, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Monique A. A. Caljouw, Wilco P. Achterberg and Jenny T. van der Steen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:183
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. 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...

    Authors: Pete Wegier, Jaymie Varenbut, Mark Bernstein, Peter G. Lawlor and Sarina R. Isenberg
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:182
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. 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 ...

    Authors: Ting-Ying Wu, Hsiu-Yueh Liu, Chien-Yi Wu, Hung-Cheng Chen, Shun-Te Huang and Ping-Ho Chen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:181
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. 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...

    Authors: Sameena Shah, Faizan Qaisar, Iqbal Azam and Khairunnisa Mansoor
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:180
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  11. 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...

    Authors: Vera Vennedey, Gloria Dust, Nicolas Schippel, Arim Shukri, Julia Strupp, Christian Rietz, Raymond Voltz and Stephanie Stock
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:177
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  12. 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...

    Authors: Arta Hoesseini, Marinella P. J. Offerman, Bojou J. van de Wall-Neecke, Aniel Sewnaik, Marjan H. Wieringa and Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:176
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  13. 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...

    Authors: Naveen Salins, Arunangshu Ghoshal, Sean Hughes and Nancy Preston
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:175
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  14. 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 ...

    Authors: Naomi Dhollander, Tinne Smets, Aline De Vleminck, Lore Lapeire, Koen Pardon and Luc Deliens
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:174
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  15. 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 ...

    Authors: M. Mélin, H. Amieva, M. Frasca, C. Ouvrard, V. Berger, H. Hoarau, C. Roumiguière, B. Paternostre, N. Stadelmaier, N. Raoux, V. Bergua and B. Burucoa
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:173
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  16. 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...

    Authors: Per Fürst, Staffan Lundström, Pål Klepstad and Peter Strang
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:172
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. 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...

    Authors: Imane Semlali, Emmanuel Tamches, Pascal Singy and Orest Weber
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:171
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  18. 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...

    Authors: Ximena Garcia-Quintero, Luis Gabriel Parra-Lara, Angelica Claros-Hulbert, Maria Isabel Cuervo-Suarez, Wendy Gomez-Garcia, Francois Desbrandes and Natalia Arias-Casais
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:170
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  19. 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...

    Authors: Cindy Wang, Pamela Grassau, Peter G. Lawlor, Colleen Webber, Shirley H. Bush, Bruno Gagnon, Monisha Kabir and Edward G. Spilg
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:169
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. 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...

    Authors: Heidi Bergenholtz, Malene Missel and Helle Timm
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:168
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  21. 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...

    Authors: Jun Zhou, Sitao Xu, Ziye Cao, Jing Tang, Xiang Fang, Ling Qin, Fangping Zhou, Yuzhen He, Xueren Zhong, Mingcai Hu, Yan Wang, Fengjuan Lu, Yongzheng Bao, Xiangheng Dai and Qiang Wu
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:167
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. 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 ...

    Authors: Mary Murphy, Eilís McCaughan, Matthew A Carson, Monica Donovan, Richard H Wilson and Donna Fitzsimons
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:166
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  23. 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...

    Authors: Anette Winger, Lisbeth Gravdal Kvarme, Borghild Løyland, Camilla Kristiansen, Sølvi Helseth and Ingrid H. Ravn
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:165
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. 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...

    Authors: Nanako Nishiyama, Yoshinobu Matsuda, Noriko Fujiwara, Keisuke Ariyoshi, Shunsuke Oyamada, Keiichi Narita, Ryouhei Ishii and Satoru Iwase
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:164
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  25. 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.

    Authors: Peter G. Lawlor, Marie T. McNamara-Kilian, Alistair R. MacDonald, Franco Momoli, Sallyanne Tierney, Nathalie Lacaze-Masmonteil, Monidipa Dasgupta, Meera Agar, Jose L. Pereira, David C. Currow and Shirley H. Bush
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:163
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. 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.

    Authors: Eun-Jung Shim, Hyeju Ha, Won-Hyoung Kim, Moon-Hee Lee, Jisun Park, Kwang-Min Lee, Kyung-Lak Son, Chan-Woo Yeom and Bong-Jin Hahm
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:162
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  27. 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.

    Authors: Lisa Hjelmfors, Martje H. L. van der Wal, Maria Friedrichsen, Anna Milberg, Jan Mårtensson, Anna Sandgren, Anna Strömberg and Tiny Jaarsma
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:161
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  28. 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...

    Authors: Heidi Kern, Giorgio Corani, David Huber, Nicola Vermes, Marco Zaffalon, Marco Varini, Claudia Wenzel and André Fringer
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:160
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  29. 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...

    Authors: Barbara Pesut, Wendy Duggleby, Grace Warner, Paxton Bruce, Sunita Ghosh, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Cheryl Nekolaichuk and Jasneet Parmar
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:159
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  31. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Leslye Rojas-Concha, Maiken Bang Hansen, Morten Aagaard Petersen and Mogens Groenvold
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:157
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    The original article was published in BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:81

  33. Despite the urgent need for palliative care for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it is not yet daily practice. Important factors influencing the provision of palliative care...

    Authors: Johanna M. C. Broese, Rianne M. J. J. van der Kleij, Huib A. M. Kerstjens, Els M. L. Verschuur, Yvonne Engels and Niels H. Chavannes
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:155
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  34. End-of-life caregiving frequently is managed by friends and family. Studies on hastened death, including aid in dying or assisted suicide, indicate friends and family also play essential roles before, during, ...

    Authors: Jane Lowers, Melissa Scardaville, Sean Hughes and Nancy J. Preston
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:154
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  35. Palliative care is typically performed in-hospital. However, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers are uniquely positioned to deliver early palliative care as they are often the first point of medical cont...

    Authors: Caleb Hanson Gage, Heike Geduld and Willem Stassen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:153
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  36. Patients have a ‘need to know’ (instrumental need) and a ‘need to feel known’ (affective need). During consultations with patients with limited health literacy (LHL) in the palliative phase of their disease, b...

    Authors: Janneke Noordman, Lotte Schulze, Ruud Roodbeen, Gudule Boland, Liesbeth M. van Vliet, Maria van den Muijsenbergh and Sandra van Dulmen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:152
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  37. Eliciting individual values and preferences of patients is essential to delivering high quality palliative care and ensuring patient-centered advance care planning. Despite advance care planning conserving hea...

    Authors: Rakhshan Kamran and Arianna Dal Cin
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:151
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  38. Advance care planning (ACP) is a process by which patients reflect upon their goals, values and beliefs to allow them to make decisions about their future medical treatment that align with their goals and valu...

    Authors: J. T. Toguri, L. Grant-Nunn and R. Urquhart
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:150
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Training in medical ethics aims to educate health care professionals in dealing with daily care ethical issues. To guarantee quality of life and spiritual and emotional support, palliative care professionals h...

    Authors: Ludovica De Panfilis, Silvia Tanzi, Marta Perin, Elena Turola and Giovanna Artioli
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:149
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Patient access to medicines at home during the last year of life is critical for symptom control, but is thought to be problematic. Little is known about healthcare professionals’ practices in supporting timel...

    Authors: Sue Latter, Natasha Campling, Jacqueline Birtwistle, Alison Richardson, Michael I. Bennett, Sean Ewings, David Meads and Miriam Santer
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:148
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  41. Sedation in palliative care is frequently but controversially discussed. Heterogeneous definitions and conceptual confusion have been cited as contributing to different problems 1) relevant to empirical resear...

    Authors: Alexander Kremling and Jan Schildmann
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:147
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Many people move in and out of hospital in the last few weeks of life. These care transitions can be distressing for family members because they signify the deterioration and impending death of their ill relat...

    Authors: Sue Duke, Natasha Campling, Carl R. May, Susi Lund, Neil Lunt and Alison Richardson
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:146
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. The increase in the number of pediatric patients with complex health conditions necessitates the application of advance care planning for children. Earlier, withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment was taboo in...

    Authors: In Gyu Song, Sung Han Kang, Min Sun Kim, Cho Hee Kim, Yi Ji Moon and Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. It is recommended that patients with progressive neurological disease (PND) receive general and specialized palliative care. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of neuropalliative care on qua...

    Authors: Radka Bužgová, Radka Kozáková and Michal Bar
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:143
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. While hospitals remain the most common place of death in many western countries, specialised palliative care (SPC) at home is an alternative to improve the quality of life for patients with incurable cancer. W...

    Authors: Christine Marie Bækø Halling, Rasmus Trap Wolf, Per Sjøgren, Hans Von Der Maase, Helle Timm, Christoffer Johansen and Jakob Kjellberg
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:142
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Patients often view “palliative care” (PC) as an approach that is synonymous with end-of-life and death, leading to shock and fear. Differing cultural and social norms and religious affiliations greatly determ...

    Authors: Naheed Dosani, Ravi Bhargava, Amit Arya, Celeste Pang, Pavinder Tut, Achal Sharma and Martin Chasen
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:141
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  48. There is controversy regarding the practical implementation of symptom-focused oncological cancer therapies to hospice residents. In this study, we aim to analyse the use and indication of supportive-oncologic...

    Authors: Ulrich Kaiser, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Fabian Kück, Nicolae-Catalin Mechie, Ana Hoffmann and Florian Kaiser
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:140
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  49. Palliative care is becoming increasingly important because the number of patients with an incurable disease is growing and their survival is improving. Previous research tells us that early palliative care has...

    Authors: Janneke van Roij, Myrte Zijlstra, Laurien Ham, Linda Brom, Heidi Fransen, Art Vreugdenhil, Natasja Raijmakers and Lonneke van de Poll-Franse
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:139
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  50. Studies have shown that telehealth applications in palliative care are feasible, can improve quality of care, and reduce costs but few studies have focused on user acceptance of current technology applications...

    Authors: M. Nguyen, J. Fujioka, K. Wentlandt, N. Onabajo, I. Wong, R. S. Bhatia, O. Bhattacharyya and V. Stamenova
    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:138
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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