Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Holy Moment142
Speaking the Unspoken141
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)87
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)73
Editorial Board70
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment66
Table of Contents64
PC-FACS July 202263
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)60
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure60
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)50
Comparing the Timing and Use of Interventions and Advance Care Planning Between Chinese American and White American ICU Decedents at a Tertiary Medical Center (Sch419)49
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)48
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)43
Palliative Care Specialist Access is Associated With Rankings of Hospital Quality42
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)42
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)41
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder39
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar39
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)36
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)35
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care34
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)33
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients33
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke32
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)32
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots31
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care31
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study31
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value30
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience30
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review30
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program28
Predictors of Response to an Evidence-Based Behavioral Cancer Pain Management Intervention: An Exploratory Analysis From a Clinical Trial28
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis28
Palliative Care Needs in Breast Cancer Patients Entering Inpatient Hospice in Western Kenya27
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment27
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)27
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients26
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation26
Table of Contents25
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot24
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department24
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains24
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge24
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital23
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus23
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report23
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care23
The 7 On/7 Off: A Useful Alternative Scheduling Model for Hospital-Based Inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultation Services (QI436)22
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain22
“I Want to Stop the Machines, But I CAN'T Tell My Family.” When Patients Communicate Different Treatment Goals to Providers and to Family Members (ODS7)22
Advancing Interprofessional Hospice and Palliative Care Teamwork with Entrustable Professional Activities (SA300)21
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons21
Feasibility of Animal-Assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer (S560)21
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care20
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)20
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?20
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Could Potentially Improve the Quality of Care in Those Afflicted With Dementia20
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients20
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-1920
Table of Contents20
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team20
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review20
Broad Needs Assessment of Pain Education in Graduate Medical Education20
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration19
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation19
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study19
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?19
A Decade of Studying Drivers of Disparities in End-of-Life Care for Black Americans: Using the NIMHD Framework for Health Disparities Research to Map the Path Ahead19
What's Lost in Translation: A Dialogue-Based Intervention That Improves Interpreter Confidence in Palliative Care Conversations19
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations19
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review19
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database19
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning19
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)18
Leading from the Heart18
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)18
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)18
Parent Priorities in End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (CO202C)18
“She's Not Ready to Give Up Yet!”: When a Family Member Overrides the Patient's Medical Decisions18
A Scoping-Review of Nurse-Led Research to Improve Advance Care Planning: A Call to Action (GP747)18
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)17
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)17
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)17
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning17
“Advocating for What We Need”: A CBPR Approach to Advance Care Planning in the San Francisco Latinx Elder Community (Sch401)17
Nutrition Impact Symptom Clusters in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Receiving Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy17
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)17
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)17
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange17
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine17
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)17
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)17
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)17
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study17
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues17
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients17
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)16
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility16
Editorial Board16
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)16
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)16
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)16
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life16
Editorial Board16
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)16
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care16
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.16
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer16
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)16
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)16
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)16
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey15
For Betty and the Magic That is You15
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns15
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers15
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain15
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)15
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures15
Editorial Board15
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs15
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report15
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery15
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)15
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences15
How Many Cancer Patients Need Palliative Care? A Population-Based Study15
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians15
ACP Documentation Older Adult15
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions14
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support14
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis14
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer14
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury14
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED14
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department14
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?14
Manuscript Title: Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation–A 10 year retrospective multicenter ICU cohort study13
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer13
Table of Contents13
“That Little Bit of Time”: Transition-to-Hospice Perspectives from Hospice Staff and Bereaved Family (S531)13
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100)13
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder13
Editorial Board13
PC-FACS September 6, 202413
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Using Collaborative Care to Increase Access to Community-Based Supportive Oncology (SA310)13
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care13
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine13
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting13
Getting to the Root of the Symptom: Differentiating Between Adverse Drug Effects and Impending Death (FR237)13
PC-FACS December 1, 202113
Table of Contents12
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)12
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle12
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care12
Letter to the Editor. A Response to: Palliative Management of Inoperable Malignant Bowel Obstruction: Prospective, Open Label, Phase 2 Study at an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center12
Inpatients with Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis (S558)12
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)12
Editorial Board12
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)12
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)12
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)12
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis12
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality12
Design and Evaluation of a Novel Mobile Phone Application to Improve Palliative Home-Care in Resource-Limited Settings12
Palliative Care Pharmacist Interventions Surrounding Medication Prescribing Across Care Transitions (IMPACT) (RP306)12
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness12
Buprenorphine as a Treatment for Severe Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy – A Case Report12
A Tale of Two Pandemics: Cancer Coping and Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (RP402)12
Nursing Facility Provider Perceptions of Appropriate Use of POLST (RP304)12
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)12
Optimizing the Global Nursing Workforce to Ensure Universal Palliative Care Access and Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering Worldwide12
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease12
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey12
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy12
SOPHIE: Testing a Virtual, Interactive, AI-Augmented End-of-Life Communication Training Tool (RP122)11
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"11
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center11
Editorial Board11
“It Really Brings Back the Human Side of Medicine”: Implementing Serious Illness Conversations in Community Health Centers Serving Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients (VF202)11
We Are Not Heroes; Elevating the Discourse of Burnout in Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses (HPCNs) in the Pre/Post COVID Era: A Scoping Review (S504)11
Enhancing Virtual Communication Skills Among Medical Learners: A COVID-19 Telemedicine Goals of Care Standardized Encounter (QI430)11
Improving Serious Illness Communication: Testing the Serious Illness Care Program with Trainees11
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving11
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder11
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care11
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care11
Design Considerations for Medicinal Cannabis Clinical Trials in People Receiving Palliative Care11
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace11
Buprenorphine 2.0: Why, When, and How to Prescribe Buprenorphine in Patients with Serious Illness (FR258)11
“There Is No Good Decision”: Understanding Why Parents Decline Home Mechanical Ventilation for Their Children (FR264)11
Improving the Care of Diverse Patient Populations: Let's Advance the Dialogue for Strategies to Address and Navigate the Elephant in the Room (P05)11
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making11
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care11
Predictors of Family Caregivers’ Depressive- and Prolonged-Grief-Disorder-Symptom Trajectories11
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?11
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU11
AAHPM Pediatric Competencies: Developing Pediatric Learning Objectives for Adult-Track HPM Fellows and Finding the “Sweet Spot” in Length of Training (TH131)11
Is There a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease (FR234)11
SOGI and Beyond: Equitable Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities (FR220)11
Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy11
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites11
Arts in Medicine for the Reduction of Pain and Stress in Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy11
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy10
Daily Social Support, Social Isolation, and the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults Living with Cancer (GP116)10
Patient-Provider Communication, Decision-Making, and Psychosocial Burdens in Palliative Radiotherapy: A Qualitative Study on Patients’ Perspectives10
The Impact of Integrating Palliative Medicine Into COVID-19 Critical Care10
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies10
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)10
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)10
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence10
Targeted Therapy: Improving the Delivery of Palliative Care Through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Models10
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients10
The Design of a Data Management System for a Multicenter Palliative Care Cohort Study10
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)10
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center10
PC-FACS February 202310
Using a Palliative Extubation Simulation-Based Learning Model to Teach Key Palliative Medicine Topics and Skills Across Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (Sch472)10
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care10
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?10
All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil10
“Life…Gets Turned Upside-Down…” Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care for High-Grade Glioma10
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)10
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates10
Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science (SA303A)10
Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports (FR214C)10
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)10
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher9
The Use of Ketamine for End-of-Life Symptom Control in a Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Neurologic Disease (CS362)9
Bereaved Family Quality of Life Varies With Comorbid Psychological Distress and ICU-Care Quality9
A Race-Conscious Approach Toward Research on Racial Inequities in Palliative Care9
Effectiveness of an Algorithmic Approach to Ventilator Withdrawal at the End of Life (SAPLEN 101)9
Evidence Guiding Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: A Review9
Feasibility of a Two-Step Palliative Screening Utilizing Existing Emergency Department Resources9
Editorial Board9
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)9
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)9
Decision Making of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Cancer Patients at Terminal Stage—A Systematic Review of the Views From Patients, Families, and Healthcare Professionals9
A Core Outcome Set for Interventions to Prevent and/or Treat Delirium in Palliative Care9
Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Different Clinical Profiles Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure9
US Medicare Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Workforce and Service Delivery in 2008-20209
Receipt of Hospice Aide Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries Receiving Home Hospice Care9
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer9
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Disparities in Therapeutic Alliance Among Latino Immigrants With Advanced Cancer9
Predictors of Symptom Reporting Concordance Between Patient and Provider in the Context of Cancer and Multimorbidity (GP725)9
Functional Status Changes in Patients Receiving Palliative Care Consult During COVID-19 Pandemic9
What's in the Sauce? The Specific Benefits of Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease9
Truly Integrated Support for Cancer Patients: A Palliative Care Clinic Model (ODS2)9
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