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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Holy Moment160
Speaking the Unspoken153
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)94
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)77
Editorial Board71
Table of Contents70
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment70
PC-FACS July 202265
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)62
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)53
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)52
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)50
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)45
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)44
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar41
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 Disorder40
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)39
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)36
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients36
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care36
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)35
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke35
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots34
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)34
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value33
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience33
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review32
Predictors of Response to an Evidence-Based Behavioral Cancer Pain Management Intervention: An Exploratory Analysis From a Clinical Trial32
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program31
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis31
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study30
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?29
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons29
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients29
Palliative Care Needs in Breast Cancer Patients Entering Inpatient Hospice in Western Kenya28
Community engagement in Palliative Care: a lesson from the Lakshadweep Islands26
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning26
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review26
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care25
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure25
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients24
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation24
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)24
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review24
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation24
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment24
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients24
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot23
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department23
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains23
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge23
Table of Contents23
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care22
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital22
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus22
The 7 On/7 Off: A Useful Alternative Scheduling Model for Hospital-Based Inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultation Services (QI436)21
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report21
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain21
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Could Potentially Improve the Quality of Care in Those Afflicted With Dementia20
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-1920
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database20
Advancing Interprofessional Hospice and Palliative Care Teamwork with Entrustable Professional Activities (SA300)20
Table of Contents20
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)20
“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)20
Feasibility of Animal-Assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer (S560)20
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?20
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team20
Broad Needs Assessment of Pain Education in Graduate Medical Education20
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations19
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)19
Leading from the Heart19
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)19
Nutrition Impact Symptom Clusters in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Receiving Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy19
“She's Not Ready to Give Up Yet!”: When a Family Member Overrides the Patient's Medical Decisions19
Parent Priorities in End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (CO202C)19
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration19
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)19
A Scoping-Review of Nurse-Led Research to Improve Advance Care Planning: A Call to Action (GP747)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
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)18
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)18
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care18
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study18
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)18
“Advocating for What We Need”: A CBPR Approach to Advance Care Planning in the San Francisco Latinx Elder Community (Sch401)18
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)18
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)18
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)18
What's Lost in Translation: A Dialogue-Based Intervention That Improves Interpreter Confidence in Palliative Care Conversations18
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
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)17
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange17
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)17
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine17
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
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)16
Editorial Board16
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility16
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)16
Editorial Board16
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
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)16
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care16
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life16
For Betty and the Magic That is You15
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)15
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)15
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery15
Editorial Board15
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)15
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)15
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns15
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures15
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)15
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey15
How Many Cancer Patients Need Palliative Care? A Population-Based Study15
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED14
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report14
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department14
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder14
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)14
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer14
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain14
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs14
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?14
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine14
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis14
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions14
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians14
ACP Documentation Older Adult14
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury14
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer14
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support14
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting13
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)13
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)13
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy13
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)13
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness13
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study13
Table of Contents13
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)13
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle13
Palliative Care Pharmacist Interventions Surrounding Medication Prescribing Across Care Transitions (IMPACT) (RP306)13
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care13
Editorial Board13
PC-FACS December 1, 202113
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)13
Nursing Facility Provider Perceptions of Appropriate Use of POLST (RP304)13
A Tale of Two Pandemics: Cancer Coping and Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (RP402)13
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality13
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
Getting to the Root of the Symptom: Differentiating Between Adverse Drug Effects and Impending Death (FR237)12
Inpatients with Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis (S558)12
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers12
Optimizing the Global Nursing Workforce to Ensure Universal Palliative Care Access and Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering Worldwide12
PC-FACS September 6, 202412
“That Little Bit of Time”: Transition-to-Hospice Perspectives from Hospice Staff and Bereaved Family (S531)12
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey12
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease12
Table of Contents12
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100)12
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Using Collaborative Care to Increase Access to Community-Based Supportive Oncology (SA310)12
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences12
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis12
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care12
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU11
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?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
Arts in Medicine for the Reduction of Pain and Stress in Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy11
Predictors of Family Caregivers’ Depressive- and Prolonged-Grief-Disorder-Symptom Trajectories11
Editorial Board11
Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Different Clinical Profiles Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure11
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites11
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center11
Buprenorphine 2.0: Why, When, and How to Prescribe Buprenorphine in Patients with Serious Illness (FR258)11
Enhancing Virtual Communication Skills Among Medical Learners: A COVID-19 Telemedicine Goals of Care Standardized Encounter (QI430)11
“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
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving11
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care11
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"11
Buprenorphine as a Treatment for Severe Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy – A Case Report11
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace11
SOPHIE: Testing a Virtual, Interactive, AI-Augmented End-of-Life Communication Training Tool (RP122)11
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making11
Is There a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease (FR234)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
Improving Serious Illness Communication: Testing the Serious Illness Care Program with Trainees11
Design Considerations for Medicinal Cannabis Clinical Trials in People Receiving Palliative Care11
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder11
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care11
Evidence Guiding Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: A Review11
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care11
AAHPM Pediatric Competencies: Developing Pediatric Learning Objectives for Adult-Track HPM Fellows and Finding the “Sweet Spot” in Length of Training (TH131)10
“Life…Gets Turned Upside-Down…” Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care for High-Grade Glioma10
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)10
Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports (FR214C)10
PC-FACS February 202310
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)10
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?10
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients10
SOGI and Beyond: Equitable Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities (FR220)10
Editorial Board10
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates10
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care10
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)10
Using a Palliative Extubation Simulation-Based Learning Model to Teach Key Palliative Medicine Topics and Skills Across Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (Sch472)10
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center10
Daily Social Support, Social Isolation, and the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults Living with Cancer (GP116)10
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)10
Targeted Therapy: Improving the Delivery of Palliative Care Through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Models10
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)10
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies10
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence10
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)10
Table of Contents10
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy10
Patient-Provider Communication, Decision-Making, and Psychosocial Burdens in Palliative Radiotherapy: A Qualitative Study on Patients’ Perspectives10
PC-FACS, November 7, 20249
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer9
What's in the Sauce? The Specific Benefits of Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease9
Customization of Electronic Medical Record Improves Documentation of Palliative Care Elements (CS319)9
HPNA Nessa Coyle Leadership Lecture—The Unheard Voices of Everyday Leaders: The Difference Listening Makes (INV124)9
Receipt of Hospice Aide Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries Receiving Home Hospice Care9
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
Exploring Health Care Providers’ Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure at Home: A Qualitative Study (GP726)9
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher9
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
AllyTalk: Applying Principles of Advanced Communication for Upstander Training (TH115C)9
A Novel, Multi-Directional Framework for Transitioning a Child with Critical Congenital Heart Disease Between Home and Hospital with Concurrent Hospice Services (FR215B)9
The Impact of Psychiatric Comorbidities on Outcomes in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review (FR223D)9
Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Use for Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) in Pediatric Oncology: A Ten-Year Review (GP750)9
Comparing Pediatric Nephrologists’ and Palliative Care Physicians’ Perspectives on Palliative Care for Children with End-Stage Kidney Disease: A National Survey Study (GP727)9
African Americans Communities Speak to Healthcare Providers: Clinical Practice Outcomes9
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)9
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
Improving Access to Meaningful Advance Care Planning Conversations Across a Healthcare System (SA315B)9
Reflections on Cultural Humility in the End-Stages of Parkinson's: The Journey of a Mandarin-speaking Patient9
Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy9
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
US Medicare Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Workforce and Service Delivery in 2008-20209
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