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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Community Engagement in Palliative Care: A Lesson From the Lakshadweep Islands126
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value114
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)70
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients64
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)59
PC-FACS July 202259
Speaking the Unspoken53
A Holy Moment51
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program49
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database42
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar41
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)41
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care41
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)40
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke39
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)38
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment36
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients36
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation36
Table of Contents34
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients34
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains34
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department33
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care31
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus30
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital29
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report29
Table of Contents28
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)28
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?28
Design and Implementation of a Primary Palliative Care Education Program for Hematology-Oncology Advanced Practice Providers: Insights From a Three-Year Cohort27
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients27
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain27
A Kid at Heart: Applying Pediatric Skills to Caring for Adults27
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots26
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder26
Table of Contents26
Mental Healthcare Delivery in Palliative Care: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives25
Opioid Conversion in Adults With Cancer: MASCC-ASCO-AAHPM-HPNA-NICSO Guideline Clinical Insights25
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-1924
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot24
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment23
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care23
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)22
Guided Mindfulness of Death to Reduce Fear of Death in Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Study22
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)22
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)22
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)22
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study22
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations21
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)21
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)21
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)21
Implementation of Evidence-Based Symptom Management Standing Order Sets in an Ambulatory Palliative Care Clinic20
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)20
Perspectives on Psychedelics in Hospice and Palliative Medicine: Results of a Cross Disciplinary Survey20
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)20
Distinct Trajectories of Symptom Burden Development in Patients With Stage IV Cancer20
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care20
Identifying Key Aspects of Neuropalliative Care Fellowship Training using a Nominal Group Technique19
Hospice and palliative medicine prescriber experience and comfort with managing substance use disorders19
Role of Palliative Care in Massive Transfusion Protocol19
Embedding Palliative Care within the continuum of care provided by a Sickle Cell Medical Neighborhood19
Palliative Care Competency Among Pediatric Critical Care Fellows and Attendings: A National Needs Assessment18
When death takes longer than expected: Balancing symptom and communication needs in critically ill, alert patients18
What’s Essential to a Resident Rotation in Palliative Care? A Mixed-Methods Study of Educators18
It’s Not Business as Usual! Improving Recruitment & Retention of Adults among Black & Latino Communities for Research18
Palli-AI-tive Board Prep: Smarter Question Creation for the HPM Fellow for Board Preparation18
Caring for Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Patients in the ICU18
When Advantage is not an Advantage18
Innovating Grief Support Education: The TEARS Framework for Interprofessional Faculty Development18
Codesign of Multidisciplinary Intervention to Personalize Prognostic Communication in Pediatric Serious Illness18
Comparing ChatGPT and DeepSeek for Deprescription Support in Geriatric and Palliative Care: An Exploratory Study18
Intermittent Lidocaine Infusion for Refractory Neuropathic Cancer Pain17
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons17
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge17
Palliative Care’s Role in Hematologic Malignancy Patients Undergoing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy17
Morphine At End of Life in a Long-Term Acute Care Facility: Why the Hesitation?17
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team17
A Decade of Palliative Care-Focused Virtual Clinical Skills Training17
Characterizing Communication Strategies to Open the Door to Difficult Conversations in Pediatric Serious Illness17
Editorial Board17
Editorial Board17
The Paradox of Palliphobia16
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Cancer Pain Relief: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial16
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?16
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis16
Assessment of a Zero-Shot Large Language Model in Measuring Documented Goals-of-Care Discussions16
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review16
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review16
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study16
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure16
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration16
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation16
Goal-Concordant Care in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Receiving Palliative Care16
The Pediatric Cancer Care Experience (PACE) Questionnaire: Development and Validation of a Novel Instrument15
Sitting-Related Sacral Pain in Patients With Sacral Metastases: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study15
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 Center15
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)15
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience15
Editorial Board15
What Matters in Survival is the Patient Not Early Palliative Care15
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.15
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review15
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning15
PC-FACS September 6, 202415
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)15
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)14
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)14
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain14
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)14
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)14
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report14
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine14
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)14
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder14
ACP Documentation Older Adult14
“Scarcity,” “Futility,” and “Moral Distress”: A Case Analysis of the Challenges of Sound Ethical Description13
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs13
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer13
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support13
For Betty and the Magic That is You13
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences13
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?13
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury13
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians13
Editorial Board13
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions13
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED13
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery13
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study12
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)12
“Advocating for What We Need”: A CBPR Approach to Advance Care Planning in the San Francisco Latinx Elder Community (Sch401)12
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)12
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)12
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department12
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)12
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)12
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning12
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)12
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)12
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)12
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)12
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer12
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey11
Interprofessional Teamwork in Serious Illness Communication: A Multi-Method Pilot Study11
Delirium 2.0: What’s New and What Works for Palliative Care and Hospice Patients?11
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)11
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine11
Editorial Board11
Differences in Pain Episodes Among Children With Complex Chronic Conditions at End of Life11
Analysis of Ambient AI Transcription in Outpatient Palliative Care11
Can Robots Feel? Ethical Reflections on AI in Palliative Care11
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues11
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange11
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility11
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care11
Variation in use of general inpatient care and continuous home care among the largest hospices11
Ideal Timing and Perceived Barriers for Palliative Care Integration for Children with Cancer in China11
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)11
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life11
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care11
Daily Dynamics of Psychological Distress Among Hispanic and Latino Dementia Caregivers: A Daily Diary Study10
Finding Diastole: Palliative Care Fellows, Transformative Learning Theory, and a Narrative Medicine Curriculum10
Pain in Individuals with Metastatic Cancer: Baseline Data from a Prospective Cohort Study on Opioid Benefits & Harms10
Catatonia in the Medically Ill and Dying: A Primer for Palliative Care and Hospice clinicians10
“White Coat, Hospital Gown” Supporting Seriously Ill Physicians with Compassion and Clarity10
From Pathophys to Prognosis: Teaching Oncology Concepts to Elevate Interdisciplinary Palliative Care10
Assessing Knowledge and Attitudes of Palliative Care: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Survey10
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study10
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns10
Caring with Complexity: Developing and Implementing a Pilot Substance Use Disorder Workflow in Palliative Care10
Beyond Expansion: Strengthening Purpose and Practice in Pediatric Palliative Care10
Palliative Care Intervention to Improve End-of-Life Care Communication in AML and MDS10
Expanding the Spiritual Lens: Supporting Team-Based Spiritual Inquiry in Serious Illness10
Trauma-Informed Leadership: Utilizing TIC Frameworks to Support Your HAPC Team10
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey10
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers10
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer10
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures10
Increasing Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes for Prenatal Palliative Care Visits10
Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial of Advance Care Planning for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia10
Best Case/Worst Case–Acute Ischemic Stroke: Adapting a Communication Tool with Clinician Insight10
An Integrated Palliative Approach to Faith-Based Suffering and Medical Decisions.10
A LiverPal Perspective: Palliative Care Pearls for the Care of Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Liver Disease10
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis10
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care10
Bridging the Hesitation Gap: A Motivational Interviewing Approach to Earlier Goals of Care Conversations10
Coping With Breathlessness in Individuals With Lung Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis9
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)9
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites9
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease9
Spiritual Well-Being Moderates the Association Between Attachment Insecurity and Death Anxiety in Chinese Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer: Indirect Pathways Through Distress and Depressive Symp9
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace9
Feasibility of a Two-Step Palliative Screening Utilizing Existing Emergency Department Resources9
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?9
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)9
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)9
Using a Palliative Extubation Simulation-Based Learning Model to Teach Key Palliative Medicine Topics and Skills Across Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (Sch472)9
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU9
Evidence Guiding Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: A Review9
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?9
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care9
Association between Advance Directives and Invasive Life Support Use at End of Life: A Retrospective Cohort Study9
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting9
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving9
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care9
Palliative Care Needs in Pediatric Hematologic Oncology: Parent-Child Perspectives Across Stages9
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)9
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care9
Palliative Care Needs of Patients With Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia: A Scoping Review9
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center9
Serious Illness Care Exclusion, Disclosure, and Trust For Older Gay Men and Caregivers in the Deep South9
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making9
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness9
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality9
Suzetrigine: successful treatment of a young adult with breast cancer-associated neuropathic and nociceptive pain9
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"9
It's Not About Winning or Losing: How Consultants Navigate Disagreement in Serious Illness9
A Core Outcome Set for Interventions to Prevent and/or Treat Delirium in Palliative Care9
Table of Contents9
The Use of Ketamine for End-of-Life Symptom Control in a Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Neurologic Disease (CS362)9
Table of Contents9
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder9
Reflections on Cultural Humility in the End-Stages of Parkinson's: The Journey of a Mandarin-speaking Patient8
PC-FACS, November 7, 20248
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)8
Prevalence and Severity of Symptoms and Concerns in Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis During Their Final Year of Life: A Cohort Analysis8
“I wasn’t aware of other options”: Patient Experiences in an Integrated Kidney Palliative Care Trial8
Disparities in Therapeutic Alliance Among Latino Immigrants With Advanced Cancer8
Who Cares for Chronic Pain? Exploring A Case of Palliative Intervention in Systemic Sclerosis8
Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports (FR214C)8
Arts in Medicine for the Reduction of Pain and Stress in Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy8
Editorial Board8
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher8
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies8
“Life…Gets Turned Upside-Down…” Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care for High-Grade Glioma8
Palliative Care Consultation and Mortality Rates for Patients Undergoing Dysvascular Major Lower Limb Amputation8
PC-FACS February 20238
Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science (SA303A)8
Parental Attitudes Towards Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: Insights From Bereaved Families8
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)8
Bereaved Family Quality of Life Varies With Comorbid Psychological Distress and ICU-Care Quality8
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care8
Building Palliative Care Capacity in North India: A Multicenter Approach8
Between Hope and Hopelessness: How Transference and Countertransference Manifest in End-Stage Liver Disease8
Hospice in the Arabian Gulf: A Strategic Roadmap of Barriers, Opportunities, and Regional Solutions8
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer8
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)8
Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy8
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