Tag: Palliative care

A landmark cross-national study finds that wealthy countries with formal care systems show higher unmet end-of-life care needs than China ...

A national study of Medicare beneficiaries with poor-prognosis cancer finds that Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients are less likely to ...

A nationwide Norwegian cohort study of more than 76,000 nursing home residents finds that greater average staff experience is associated ...

A Taiwanese experimental study found that a 25-minute virtual reality education program significantly improved death literacy among family caregivers of ...

A five-year, ICMR-funded multicentre study called MATHRU is testing whether a co-designed, seven-domain care package can bring consistent, culturally appropriate ...

A scoping review of 158 studies has catalogued 180 distinct healthcare event types and seven phases of care that women ...

A new commentary argues that keeping opioid dosing linked to pain, rather than relying solely on fixed schedules, may help ...

A qualitative study of 24 nurses in Saudi Arabia reveals how dignity preservation, holistic care, and emotional strain define end-of-life ...

A longitudinal French study of 22 spouses bereaved by cancer found that men and women narrate the end of life ...

A three-round European e-Delphi study has produced seventy consensus statements defining the role of specialist palliative care services for people ...

A Swedish qualitative study of eighteen nursing home staff members finds that palliative care education succeeds only when individual attitudes, ...

A global qualitative study of 44 professionals in 23 countries finds that deprivation must be addressed through food, housing and ...

A new narrative review argues that structured spiritual history-taking tools such as FICA and HOPE can improve trust, mental well-being, ...

A new case report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows how clinicians can support autistic and neurodivergent patients ...

An international team of researchers has used a theory of change approach with 21 stakeholders from 12 countries to build ...

A new PLOS Aging and Health opinion article argues that dignity, long celebrated in healthcare ethics but rarely measured, should ...

A survey of 186 cancer patients at a Pennsylvania cancer center found that roughly a quarter had used cannabis since ...

A lived experience commentary in the Journal of Eating Disorders challenges 'treatment-resistant' and 'terminal' labels and proposes a five-principle recovery-fostering ...

A Swiss real-world study of 38 palliative care patients found that rapid intravenous opioid titration reduced median pain scores from ...

A qualitative study of eighteen family caregivers shows that palliative care consultations ease surrogate decision-making for hospitalized dementia patients, but ...