OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Community Engagement in Palliative Care: A Lesson From the Lakshadweep Islands	109
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value	98
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)	57
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients	55
PC-FACS July 2022	52
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)	51
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)	50
Speaking the Unspoken	50
A Holy Moment	46
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program	44
Parent Priorities in End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (CO202C)	42
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database	40
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)	39
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar	39
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care	36
A Scoping-Review of Nurse-Led Research to Improve Advance Care Planning: A Call to Action (GP747)	35
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)	35
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)	33
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)	33
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke	33
Leading from the Heart	32
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients	31
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)	31
Editorial Board	31
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment	30

Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation	28
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients	27
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge	26
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care	26
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains	26
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department	26
Table of Contents	26
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus	25
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital	25
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)	24
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report	24
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?	23
Table of Contents	23
The Paradox of Palliphobia	23
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons	23
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain	23
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients	22
Design and Implementation of a Primary Palliative Care Education Program for Hematology-Oncology Advanced Practice Providers: Insights From a Three-Year Cohort	22
Table of Contents	22
A Kid at Heart: Applying Pediatric Skills to Caring for Adults	22
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots	22
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience	22
The Pediatric Cancer Care Experience (PACE) Questionnaire: Development and Validation of a Novel Instrument	21
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration	21
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study	21
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder	21
Opioid Conversion in Adults With Cancer: MASCC-ASCO-AAHPM-HPNA-NICSO Guideline Clinical Insights	21
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations	20
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	20
Mental Healthcare Delivery in Palliative Care: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives	20
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)	20
Assessment of a Zero-Shot Large Language Model in Measuring Documented Goals-of-Care Discussions	20
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care	19
Goal-Concordant Care in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Receiving Palliative Care	19
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)	19
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review	19
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)	19
Embedding Palliative Care within the continuum of care provided by a Sickle Cell Medical Neighborhood	18
Implementation of Evidence-Based Symptom Management Standing Order Sets in an Ambulatory Palliative Care Clinic	18
Palliative Care Competency Among Pediatric Critical Care Fellows and Attendings: A National Needs Assessment	18
Identifying Key Aspects of Neuropalliative Care Fellowship Training using a Nominal Group Technique	18
Perspectives on Psychedelics in Hospice and Palliative Medicine: Results of a Cross Disciplinary Survey	18
Hospice and palliative medicine prescriber experience and comfort with managing substance use disorders	18
Role of Palliative Care in Massive Transfusion Protocol	18
Distinct Trajectories of Symptom Burden Development in Patients With Stage IV Cancer	18
When death takes longer than expected: Balancing symptom and communication needs in critically ill, alert patients	17
Caring for Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Patients in the ICU	17
Codesign of Multidisciplinary Intervention to Personalize Prognostic Communication in Pediatric Serious Illness	17
Palli-AI-tive Board Prep: Smarter Question Creation for the HPM Fellow for Board Preparation	17
Innovating Grief Support Education: The TEARS Framework for Interprofessional Faculty Development	17

It’s Not Business as Usual! Improving Recruitment & Retention of Adults among Black & Latino Communities for Research	17
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care	16
When Advantage is not an Advantage	16
Intermittent Lidocaine Infusion for Refractory Neuropathic Cancer Pain	16
Palliative Care’s Role in Hematologic Malignancy Patients Undergoing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy	16
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?	16
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot	16
Comparing ChatGPT and DeepSeek for Deprescription Support in Geriatric and Palliative Care: An Exploratory Study	16
A Decade of Palliative Care-Focused Virtual Clinical Skills Training	16
Characterizing Communication Strategies to Open the Door to Difficult Conversations in Pediatric Serious Illness	16
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review	16
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-19	16
What’s Essential to a Resident Rotation in Palliative Care? A Mixed-Methods Study of Educators	16
Morphine At End of Life in a Long-Term Acute Care Facility: Why the Hesitation?	16
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation	16
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Cancer Pain Relief: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial	16
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 Ahead	15
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)	15
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)	15
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)	15
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)	15
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure	15
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning	15
Guided Mindfulness of Death to Reduce Fear of Death in Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Study	15
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment	15
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)	15
Editorial Board	15
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)	15
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study	15
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review	15
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team	15
Real-world integrative oncology in patients with cancer and diabetes: engagement patterns, outcomes	15
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 Center	14
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
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine	14
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.	14
What Matters in Survival is the Patient Not Early Palliative Care	14
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)	14
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)	14
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report	14
PC-FACS September 6, 2024	14
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)	14
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)	14
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder	14
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)	14
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery	13
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support	13
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED	13
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?	13
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs	13
ACP Documentation Older Adult	13
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions	13
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury	13
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians	13
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain	13
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer	13
“Scarcity,” “Futility,” and “Moral Distress”: A Case Analysis of the Challenges of Sound Ethical Description	12
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences	12
Editorial Board	12
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)	12
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)	12
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers	12
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study	12
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
For Betty and the Magic That is You	12
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)	12
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department	12
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
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)	11
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer	11
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)	11
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)	11
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)	11
Nursing Facility Provider Perceptions of Appropriate Use of POLST (RP304)	11
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)	11
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life	11
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)	11

Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)	11
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)	11
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)	11
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis	11
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues	11
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning	11
Palliative Care Pharmacist Interventions Surrounding Medication Prescribing Across Care Transitions (IMPACT) (RP306)	11
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care	11
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey	10
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness	10
Suzetrigine: successful treatment of a young adult with breast cancer-associated neuropathic and nociceptive pain	10
Interprofessional Teamwork in Serious Illness Communication: A Multi-Method Pilot Study	10
Editorial Board	10
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey	10
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle	10
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study	10
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy	10
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care	10
Analysis of Ambient AI Transcription in Outpatient Palliative Care	10
Bridging the Hesitation Gap: A Motivational Interviewing Approach to Earlier Goals of Care Conversations	10
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)	10
Can Robots Feel? Ethical Reflections on AI in Palliative Care	10
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care	10
Finding Diastole: Palliative Care Fellows, Transformative Learning Theory, and a Narrative Medicine Curriculum	10
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)	10
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine	10
Assessing Knowledge and Attitudes of Palliative Care: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Survey	10
Ideal Timing and Perceived Barriers for Palliative Care Integration for Children with Cancer in China	10
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting	10
An Integrated Palliative Approach to Faith-Based Suffering and Medical Decisions.	10
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility	10
Differences in Pain Episodes Among Children With Complex Chronic Conditions at End of Life	10
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange	10
A Tale of Two Pandemics: Cancer Coping and Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (RP402)	10
Variation in use of general inpatient care and continuous home care among the largest hospices	9
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures	9
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns	9
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care	9
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU	9
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making	9
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer	9
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care	9
Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial of Advance Care Planning for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia	9
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?	9
A LiverPal Perspective: Palliative Care Pearls for the Care of Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Liver Disease	9
“White Coat, Hospital Gown” Supporting Seriously Ill Physicians with Compassion and Clarity	9
Caring with Complexity: Developing and Implementing a Pilot Substance Use Disorder Workflow in Palliative Care	9
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis	9
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality	9
Bereaved Family Quality of Life Varies With Comorbid Psychological Distress and ICU-Care Quality	9
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"	9
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	9
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites	9
Beyond Expansion: Strengthening Purpose and Practice in Pediatric Palliative Care	9
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving	9
Catatonia in the Medically Ill and Dying: A Primer for Palliative Care and Hospice clinicians	9
Palliative Care Intervention to Improve End-of-Life Care Communication in AML and MDS	9
Best Case/Worst Case–Acute Ischemic Stroke: Adapting a Communication Tool with Clinician Insight	9
Increasing Use of Advance Care Planning Billing Codes for Prenatal Palliative Care Visits	9
Pain in Individuals with Metastatic Cancer: Baseline Data from a Prospective Cohort Study on Opioid Benefits & Harms	9
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease	9
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care	9
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace	9
Table of Contents	9
Trauma-Informed Leadership: Utilizing TIC Frameworks to Support Your HAPC Team	9
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder	9
Expanding the Spiritual Lens: Supporting Team-Based Spiritual Inquiry in Serious Illness	9
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 Symp	9
From Pathophys to Prognosis: Teaching Oncology Concepts to Elevate Interdisciplinary Palliative Care	9
Daily Dynamics of Psychological Distress Among Hispanic and Latino Dementia Caregivers: A Daily Diary Study	9
Delirium 2.0: What’s New and What Works for Palliative Care and Hospice Patients?	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)	8
Exploring Health Care Providers’ Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure at Home: A Qualitative Study (GP726)	8
Editorial Board	8
Parental Attitudes Towards Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: Insights From Bereaved Families	8
Table of Contents	8
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy	8
PC-FACS, November 7, 2024	8
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer	8
All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil	8
The Design of a Data Management System for a Multicenter Palliative Care Cohort Study	8
Feasibility of a Two-Step Palliative Screening Utilizing Existing Emergency Department Resources	8
Reflections on Cultural Humility in the End-Stages of Parkinson's: The Journey of a Mandarin-speaking Patient	8
Predictors of Symptom Reporting Concordance Between Patient and Provider in the Context of Cancer and Multimorbidity (GP725)	8
Design Considerations for Medicinal Cannabis Clinical Trials in People Receiving Palliative Care	8
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients	8
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher	8
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates	8
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center	8
Editorial Board	8
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies	8
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care	8
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence	8
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)	8
PC-FACS February 2023	8