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Spiritual care is an essential component of palliative care, supporting the existential and spiritual wellbeing of patients with serious illnesses. Yet, its effective implementation remains challenging in many...
Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses exhibit gaps in their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding palliative care. In China, there is a lack of standardized training programs for palliative care among ICU n...
Palliative sedation is the monitored use of medications intended to reduce consciousness to relieve the burden of otherwise intractable suffering. Since 2016, the French Leonetti-Claeys law has granted patient...
To identify the core competencies of social workers in palliative care.
The objective of this research is to investigate the efficacy of integrated palliative care in enhancing advanced cancer patients' quality of life, alleviating pain, and improving psychological well-being thro...
This exploratory study investigates the emotional impact of palliative care provision among healthcare professionals in resource-limited settings, specifically in Kazakhstan. As a middle-income country with a ...
University-community partnerships (UCPs) represent a transformative model for integrating student experiential learning with community-based palliative care. These partnerships enhance empathy, interdisciplina...
In palliative care, it can be challenging to distinguish between reduced consciousness related to the illness and sedation due to a potentially sedating drug (intended, or unintended). These differentiations a...
Previous studies have investigated the frequency and target symptoms of palliative sedation in patients with home-based cancer. However, the status of home-based non-cancer patients remains unclear. This study...
Bereaved parents are at higher risk of poor mental and physical health outcomes than people bereaved under other circumstances. These challenges are exacerbated by the continued effects on parents’ working liv...
Some family caregivers of breast cancer patients experience post-traumatic growth, which is influenced by various psychological factors. However, limited studies have explored these factors. This study aims to...
The prevalence of chronic diseases among the South African population is increasing. The incidence of cancers is high and expected to double by 2030 while the HIV burden is disproportionately high. These are i...
Continuous monitoring of vital parameters using wearable devices offers potential benefits in palliative care, such as early detection of clinical deterioration and improving symptom management. However, evide...
Palliative sedation (PS) is a therapeutic measure used in end-of-life care to alleviate the suffering caused by refractory symptoms. The objectives of our study were to determine the frequency of PS in a speci...
Migration is an established global phenomenon. While many newly arrived migrants have better health than the general population of the country they have moved to, migrants also have their own healthcare needs ...
Nurses often face significant emotional distress and grief when dealing with patient deaths, especially in acute hospital settings. Despite extensive literature offering guidance on nursing practices for provi...
Palliative care, perhaps more than any subspecialty in healthcare, is deeply relational and engages patients and families at times of great vulnerability. Ethics of care, or relational ethics, developed throug...
The global trend of legalising assisted dying (AD) has reshaped end-of-life care practices, and Aotearoa New Zealand’s adoption of the End of Life Choice Act (the Act) in 2019 represents a significant shift. L...
Developing an accurate predictive model for palliative care phases is crucial for improving cancer patient management, enabling healthcare providers to identify those in need of specific care plans and streaml...
Children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions and their families are confronted with many uncertainties, incremental losses, and difficult decisions. Attentiveness to psychosocial care, including...
Home-based palliative care is in the early stages of development, and its implementation continues to face numerous challenges.
As the cancer burden increases in China, the need for hospice care is escalating. The right of informed consent to hospice care for patients with advanced cancer is still at the experimental stage, and patient...
Bereavement-related grief and prolonged grief disorders are highly prevalent; however, standardised care approaches are lacking. To address this gap, the self-COMPAssion-based online group psyChoTherapy for be...
As dementia is a life-limiting illness, it is now widely accepted that people with dementia benefit from palliative care. The core components of palliative care for people with dementia have been suggested, ho...
Spiritual health refers to activities and methods that improve the quality of life and the health of spiritual performance. This study was conducted to identify the key components necessary for providing spiri...
Pediatric palliative care (PPC) aims to alleviate suffering, improve quality of life, and facilitate decision-making for patients, families, and healthcare professionals. Specifically, PPC in neonatal patients...
Effective clinician-patient communication is essential for delivering quality end-of-life care. However, there are no validated measures to assess the quality of end-of-life communication for Chinese patients.
Home-based health technologies for paediatric palliative care have great potential to improve care for children, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and health systems. However, no systematic reviews have di...
It is unclear what People Living with Dementia (PLwD) consider a good death to entail, or how those perspectives vary according to culture and context. We aimed to compare the meaning of a good death for PLwD ...
We explored people with dementia and their family carers’ experiences of future care planning, guided by Kukla's model of conscientious autonomy. This relational autonomy concept focuses on the alignment of se...
Spirituality and resilience have been studied as possible factors influencing psychological adjustment in cancer patients. However, the evidence on their relationship remains inconsistent, and their impact in ...
Despite the growing significance of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for various purposes, including economic evaluations, implementing them effectively in palliative and end-of-life care settings rem...
In community home hospices, limited medical staff and high workloads necessitate measurement models that objectively and effectively capture the needs of residents with malignant tumors. This study compares th...
Despite evidence on the benefits for including children in their own (palliative) care, studies show that children are not sufficiently involved nor are their preferences sufficiently elicited in a development...
This study explores the necessary considerations for preparing and conducting qualitative interviews with palliative care patients and their relatives. Palliative care patients are considered a vulnerable grou...
The purpose of this study was to explore caregiver burden and its influencing factors in cancer patients undergoing palliative PTBD from both caregiver and patient perspectives.
The implementation of acute stroke care programs with dedicated multidisciplinary stroke teams has revolutionized access to care and improved survival among older adults. However, the integration of specialize...
Patients with heart failure have significant palliative care needs but few receive palliative care. Guidance is lacking on how to integrate palliative care into standard heart failure care. Palliative care int...
Culturally appropriate assessments are needed to improve care during the last days of life. One way of assessment is to use a tool with bereaved family members after death. The aim of this study was to transla...
Cancer cachexia (CC) is a fatal syndrome most prevalent in palliative care patients and is typically characterized by a progressive increase in weight loss and anorexia. The inability to detect and accurately ...
In the absence of existing recommendations, the objective of this study was to establish a consensus of the support practices used in an interdisciplinary team in a palliative care unit (PCU) for the relatives...
In palliative care, alternative routes for drug application besides the oral and intravenous administration are frequently necessary. Up-to-date, very little is known about the familiarity, use and perceived r...
In an increasingly globalized world, multiculturalism has transformed healthcare settings, making cultural diversity an essential component of care. In end-of-life processes, this context presents unique chall...
Intractable cough, affecting 10–50% of terminally ill patients, significantly impairs quality of life. Conventional therapies often fail due to dose-limiting side effects or inadequate efficacy, necessitating ...
To explore the family members’ subjective experiences of prolonged care for individuals suffering from moderate to severe dementia and to provide evidence supporting the development of support strategies and p...
Providing general palliative care in hospital settings challenges hospitals’ multifaceted role in both saving lives and managing end-of-life care. The challenges in delivering general palliative care are compo...
Patients with cancer and their caregivers experience significant psychological, physical, and emotional burdens throughout the disease trajectory which reduces their quality of life (QoL). Early palliative car...
Effective palliative care involves managing the many symptoms commonly experienced towards the end-of-life. Appropriate prescribing is key to this care, and ethnic inequalities may lead to unequal treatment an...
Despite public support for assisted suicide (AS) and advance directives (AD), no studies have established whether individuals express interest in both procedures. This study investigates the relationship betwe...
The ability of geriatric nurses to cope with death affects both their physical and mental health, as well as the quality of the hospice services they provide. The aim of this study was to investigate the death...
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