Tag: Palliative care

A Norwegian longitudinal ethnographic study finds that integrating advance care planning into home-based palliative-care meetings is feasible and acceptable, though ...

A scoping review in the International Journal for Equity in Health identifies major gaps in how specialist palliative care services ...

A qualitative study in BMC Palliative Care identifies knowledge gaps, time constraints, and communication barriers that affect how homecare staff ...

A qualitative citizen science study in BMC Palliative Care reveals how migration background shapes end-of-life care experiences and needs in ...

A qualitative study in BMC Palliative Care finds that nurses in specialized outpatient care experience autonomy as a relational phenomenon ...

Palliative care team members in a qualitative interview study perceived death doulas as companions who increase death literacy, provide support, ...

A cross-sectional survey of adults living with multiple myeloma revealed that four out of five believed clinicians should consider spiritual ...

A survey of 393 Chinese family caregivers of advanced cancer patients identified three distinct profiles of good death expectations, with ...

A cross-sectional survey of 267 community-dwelling older adults in Xianyang, China, found that 91 percent had never received death education, ...

A scoping review of randomized controlled trials found that brief psychosocial interventions targeting existential distress in advanced cancer consistently reported ...

Researchers developed a 57-item structured observation framework, refined with 11 palliative care psychologists, to guide participant observation of the psychological ...

A retrospective review of palliative care education in Slovenia from 2012 to 2025 reveals significant expansion alongside ongoing needs for ...

A retrospective descriptive study at a comprehensive cancer center in Jordan found that medication-related problems contributed to nearly one-third of ...

A qualitative policy analysis reveals that mandatory paper prescriptions and complex administrative procedures significantly delay opioid access for palliative care ...

A qualitative study of twenty physicians and nurses at a Shenzhen tertiary hospital identified six barrier themes to palliative care ...

A prospective pilot study shows that symptom-guided home blood transfusions for hospice patients with hematologic malignancies are safe and feasible, ...

A retrospective study in a French emergency department found that all four essential key elements were documented in less than ...

A randomized controlled trial finds that a mobile app-based prescription system significantly improves medication adherence, knowledge, and satisfaction in patients ...

A qualitative interview study with nephrologists in Germany highlights multi-level barriers and facilitators influencing the delivery of conservative kidney management ...

A study in Iran identified ten key structural and process barriers to implementing case management in oncology palliative care through ...