Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Community Engagement in Palliative Care: A Lesson From the Lakshadweep Islands193
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value180
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots89
Feasibility of Animal-Assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer (S560)75
Table of Contents74
PC-FACS July 202273
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)65
Broad Needs Assessment of Pain Education in Graduate Medical Education60
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)50
“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)46
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)46
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)45
Speaking the Unspoken45
A Holy Moment41
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program40
Parent Priorities in End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (CO202C)39
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment38
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database38
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)37
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care36
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar36
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder36
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)34
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)34
A Scoping-Review of Nurse-Led Research to Improve Advance Care Planning: A Call to Action (GP747)34
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)33
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke32
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)31
Leading from the Heart30
Editorial Board29
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)28
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)28
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration27
Advancing Interprofessional Hospice and Palliative Care Teamwork with Entrustable Professional Activities (SA300)27
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)27
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients27
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)27
The 7 On/7 Off: A Useful Alternative Scheduling Model for Hospital-Based Inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultation Services (QI436)26
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)26
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)26
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)25
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients25
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot25
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-1924
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation24
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients24
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment24
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains24
Table of Contents24
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge24
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care23
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department23
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons22
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)22
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus22
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?22
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report22
Table of Contents22
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital22
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience21
A Kid at Heart: Applying Pediatric Skills to Caring for Adults21
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain21
Design and Implementation of a Primary Palliative Care Education Program for Hematology-Oncology Advanced Practice Providers: Insights From a Three-Year Cohort21
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?21
The Paradox of Palliphobia21
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review21
Goal-Concordant Care in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Receiving Palliative Care20
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients20
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team20
Guided Mindfulness of Death to Reduce Fear of Death in Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Study20
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 Ahead20
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations20
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning19
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)19
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care19
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation19
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review18
Assessment of a Zero-Shot Large Language Model in Measuring Documented Goals-of-Care Discussions18
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure18
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study18
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis18
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study18
Palliative Care Needs in Breast Cancer Patients Entering Inpatient Hospice in Western Kenya18
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review18
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.17
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study17
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care17
PC-FACS September 6, 202417
Editorial Board17
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers17
Mental Healthcare Delivery in Palliative Care: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives17
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 Center17
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer16
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report16
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder16
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department16
ACP Documentation Older Adult16
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions16
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED16
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine16
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain16
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support15
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs15
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences15
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)15
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility15
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury15
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians15
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)15
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)15
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)15
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?15
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery15
For Betty and the Magic That is You15
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)15
Editorial Board15
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)14
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)14
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle14
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)14
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer14
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis14
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning14
Editorial Board14
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey14
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)14
Palliative Care Pharmacist Interventions Surrounding Medication Prescribing Across Care Transitions (IMPACT) (RP306)14
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy14
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)14
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)14
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study13
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues13
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)13
“That Little Bit of Time”: Transition-to-Hospice Perspectives from Hospice Staff and Bereaved Family (S531)13
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)13
How Many Cancer Patients Need Palliative Care? A Population-Based Study13
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)13
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life13
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine13
PC-FACS December 1, 202113
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)13
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)13
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)13
“Advocating for What We Need”: A CBPR Approach to Advance Care Planning in the San Francisco Latinx Elder Community (Sch401)13
A Tale of Two Pandemics: Cancer Coping and Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (RP402)13
Nursing Facility Provider Perceptions of Appropriate Use of POLST (RP304)13
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)13
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)12
What Matters in Survival is the Patient Not Early Palliative Care.12
Differences in Pain Episodes Among Children With Complex Chronic Conditions at End of Life12
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)12
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange12
Getting to the Root of the Symptom: Differentiating Between Adverse Drug Effects and Impending Death (FR237)12
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care12
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100)12
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)12
Ideal Timing and Perceived Barriers for Palliative Care Integration for Children with Cancer in China12
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures12
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease12
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)12
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)12
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis12
“Scarcity,” “Futility,” and “Moral Distress”: A Case Analysis of the Challenges of Sound Ethical Description12
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns12
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting12
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care12
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey12
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care12
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Using Collaborative Care to Increase Access to Community-Based Supportive Oncology (SA310)12
Inpatients with Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis (S558)12
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)12
Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Different Clinical Profiles Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure11
Bereaved Family Quality of Life Varies With Comorbid Psychological Distress and ICU-Care Quality11
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?11
African Americans Communities Speak to Healthcare Providers: Clinical Practice Outcomes11
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care11
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness11
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality11
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"11
Parental Attitudes Towards Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: Insights From Bereaved Families11
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher11
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making11
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace11
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving11
Optimizing the Global Nursing Workforce to Ensure Universal Palliative Care Access and Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering Worldwide11
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU11
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care11
Table of Contents11
PC-FACS, November 7, 202411
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites11
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer11
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center11
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder11
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care11
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients10
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates10
Daily Social Support, Social Isolation, and the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults Living with Cancer (GP116)10
Comparing Pediatric Nephrologists’ and Palliative Care Physicians’ Perspectives on Palliative Care for Children with End-Stage Kidney Disease: A National Survey Study (GP727)10
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)10
Table of Contents10
Disparities in Therapeutic Alliance Among Latino Immigrants With Advanced Cancer10
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)10
Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Use for Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) in Pediatric Oncology: A Ten-Year Review (GP750)10
Targeted Therapy: Improving the Delivery of Palliative Care Through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Models10
Effectiveness of an Algorithmic Approach to Ventilator Withdrawal at the End of Life (SAPLEN 101)10
Editorial Board10
A Core Outcome Set for Interventions to Prevent and/or Treat Delirium in Palliative Care10
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)10
Buprenorphine as a Treatment for Severe Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy – A Case Report10
SOPHIE: Testing a Virtual, Interactive, AI-Augmented End-of-Life Communication Training Tool (RP122)10
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)10
All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil10
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer10
The Use of Ketamine for End-of-Life Symptom Control in a Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Neurologic Disease (CS362)10
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)10
Predictors of Symptom Reporting Concordance Between Patient and Provider in the Context of Cancer and Multimorbidity (GP725)9
PC-FACS February 20239
Table of Contents9
“There Is No Good Decision”: Understanding Why Parents Decline Home Mechanical Ventilation for Their Children (FR264)9
Receipt of Hospice Aide Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries Receiving Home Hospice Care9
What's in the Sauce? The Specific Benefits of Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease9
Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy9
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care9
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)9
SOGI and Beyond: Equitable Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities (FR220)9
Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science (SA303A)9
“It Really Brings Back the Human Side of Medicine”: Implementing Serious Illness Conversations in Community Health Centers Serving Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients (VF202)9
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence9
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center9
Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports (FR214C)9
AAHPM Pediatric Competencies: Developing Pediatric Learning Objectives for Adult-Track HPM Fellows and Finding the “Sweet Spot” in Length of Training (TH131)9
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies9
Functional Status Changes in Patients Receiving Palliative Care Consult During COVID-19 Pandemic9
Editorial Board9
Using a Palliative Extubation Simulation-Based Learning Model to Teach Key Palliative Medicine Topics and Skills Across Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (Sch472)9
Reflections on Cultural Humility in the End-Stages of Parkinson's: The Journey of a Mandarin-speaking Patient9
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)9
Is There a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease (FR234)9
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?9
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy9
Exploring Health Care Providers’ Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure at Home: A Qualitative Study (GP726)9
Truly Integrated Support for Cancer Patients: A Palliative Care Clinic Model (ODS2)9
The Design of a Data Management System for a Multicenter Palliative Care Cohort Study9
Predictors of Family Caregivers’ Depressive- and Prolonged-Grief-Disorder-Symptom Trajectories9
Editorial Board9
Feasibility of a Two-Step Palliative Screening Utilizing Existing Emergency Department Resources9
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)9
Dyadic vs Individual Supportive Care Delivery for Family Caregivers of Primary Brain Tumor Patients: Results of a 3-Arm Yoga Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (RP420)9
Improving the Care of Diverse Patient Populations: Let's Advance the Dialogue for Strategies to Address and Navigate the Elephant in the Room (P05)9
Enhancing Virtual Communication Skills Among Medical Learners: A COVID-19 Telemedicine Goals of Care Standardized Encounter (QI430)9
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