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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A Holy Moment	164
Speaking the Unspoken	155
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)	96
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)	77
Editorial Board	73
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment	70
Table of Contents	66
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)	62
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)	58
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)	54
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)	50
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)	46
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)	46
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)	45
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar	42
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder	40
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)	39
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care	38
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)	38
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients	36
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke	36
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)	36
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots	35
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience	35
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)	35

Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value	35
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review	33
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	32
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program	32
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study	31
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?	30
Palliative Care Needs in Breast Cancer Patients Entering Inpatient Hospice in Western Kenya	29
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons	29
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients	29
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure	28
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care	27
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation	26
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment	26
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)	26
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients	25
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains	25
Table of Contents	25
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care	24
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot	24
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department	24
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus	24
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge	24
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report	23
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital	23
The 7 On/7 Off: A Useful Alternative Scheduling Model for Hospital-Based Inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultation Services (QI436)	22
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain	22
“I Want to Stop the Machines, But I CAN'T Tell My Family.” When Patients Communicate Different Treatment Goals to Providers and to Family Members (ODS7)	22
Table of Contents	22
Advancing Interprofessional Hospice and Palliative Care Teamwork with Entrustable Professional Activities (SA300)	22
Feasibility of Animal-Assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer (S560)	22
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-19	21
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review	21
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)	21
Broad Needs Assessment of Pain Education in Graduate Medical Education	21
A Scoping-Review of Nurse-Led Research to Improve Advance Care Planning: A Call to Action (GP747)	20
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration	20
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)	20
Leading from the Heart	20
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations	20
“She's Not Ready to Give Up Yet!”: When a Family Member Overrides the Patient's Medical Decisions	20
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)	20
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database	20
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)	20
Parent Priorities in End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (CO202C)	19
Design and Implementation of a Primary Palliative Care Education Program for Hematology-Oncology Advanced Practice Providers: Insights From a Three-Year Cohort	19
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study	19
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?	19
The Paradox of Palliphobia	19
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team	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 Ahead	19

Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning	19
What's Lost in Translation: A Dialogue-Based Intervention That Improves Interpreter Confidence in Palliative Care Conversations	19
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care	19
Guided Mindfulness of Death to Reduce Fear of Death in Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Study	19
PC-FACS July 2022	18
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
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients	18
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)	18
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)	18
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)	18
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation	18
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)	18
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)	18
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review	18
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)	17
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study	17
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)	17
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange	17
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)	16
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning	16
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer	16
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.	16
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility	16
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine	16
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)	16
Editorial Board	16
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care	16
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues	16
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)	16
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life	16
Editorial Board	16
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)	15
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)	15
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey	15
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)	15
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)	15
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures	15
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)	15
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)	15
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)	15
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support	14
How Many Cancer Patients Need Palliative Care? A Population-Based Study	14
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs	14
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?	14
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer	14
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury	14
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report	14
For Betty and the Magic That is You	14
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians	14
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED	14
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department	14
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain	14
Editorial Board	14
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery	14
ACP Documentation Older Adult	14
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions	14
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)	13
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer	13
Palliative Care Pharmacist Interventions Surrounding Medication Prescribing Across Care Transitions (IMPACT) (RP306)	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
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy	13
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder	13
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)	13
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)	13
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)	13
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)	13
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine	13
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis	13
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle	13
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)	13
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care	13
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	12
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study	12
Editorial Board	12
PC-FACS September 6, 2024	12
Table of Contents	12
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis	12
Optimizing the Global Nursing Workforce to Ensure Universal Palliative Care Access and Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering Worldwide	12

Inpatients with Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis (S558)	12
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100)	12
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences	12
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting	12
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers	12
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Using Collaborative Care to Increase Access to Community-Based Supportive Oncology (SA310)	12
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns	12
“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 Survey	12
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality	12
“Scarcity,” “Futility,” and “Moral Distress”: A Case Analysis of the Challenges of Sound Ethical Description	12
PC-FACS December 1, 2021	12
Getting to the Root of the Symptom: Differentiating Between Adverse Drug Effects and Impending Death (FR237)	12
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease	12
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care	12
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace	11
Improving Serious Illness Communication: Testing the Serious Illness Care Program with Trainees	11
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care	11
Design Considerations for Medicinal Cannabis Clinical Trials in People Receiving Palliative Care	11
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"	11
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness	11
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites	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
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 the Care of Diverse Patient Populations: Let's Advance the Dialogue for Strategies to Address and Navigate the Elephant in the Room (P05)	11
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU	11
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving	11
SOPHIE: Testing a Virtual, Interactive, AI-Augmented End-of-Life Communication Training Tool (RP122)	11
Buprenorphine as a Treatment for Severe Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy – A Case Report	11
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder	11
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making	11
“There Is No Good Decision”: Understanding Why Parents Decline Home Mechanical Ventilation for Their Children (FR264)	11
Is There a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease (FR234)	11
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	11
Arts in Medicine for the Reduction of Pain and Stress in Cancer Patients During Chemotherapy	11
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care	11
Table of Contents	11
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care	11
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?	11
Enhancing Virtual Communication Skills Among Medical Learners: A COVID-19 Telemedicine Goals of Care Standardized Encounter (QI430)	11
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)	10
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)	10
Daily Social Support, Social Isolation, and the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults Living with Cancer (GP116)	10
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates	10
Receipt of Hospice Aide Visits Among Medicare Beneficiaries Receiving Home Hospice Care	10
Buprenorphine 2.0: Why, When, and How to Prescribe Buprenorphine in Patients with Serious Illness (FR258)	10
Targeted Therapy: Improving the Delivery of Palliative Care Through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Models	10
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients	10
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence	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
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)	10
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies	10
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)	10
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)	10
US Medicare Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Workforce and Service Delivery in 2008-2020	10
SOGI and Beyond: Equitable Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities (FR220)	10
AAHPM Pediatric Competencies: Developing Pediatric Learning Objectives for Adult-Track HPM Fellows and Finding the “Sweet Spot” in Length of Training (TH131)	10
Decision Making of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for Cancer Patients at Terminal Stage—A Systematic Review of the Views From Patients, Families, and Healthcare Professionals	10
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?	10
PC-FACS February 2023	10
Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports (FR214C)	10
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center	10
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care	10
Patient-Provider Communication, Decision-Making, and Psychosocial Burdens in Palliative Radiotherapy: A Qualitative Study on Patients’ Perspectives	10
Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy	10
“Life…Gets Turned Upside-Down…” Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care for High-Grade Glioma	10
Editorial Board	10
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy	10
Exploring Health Care Providers’ Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure at Home: A Qualitative Study (GP726)	9
Disparities in Therapeutic Alliance Among Latino Immigrants With Advanced Cancer	9
Palliative care needs of patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia: A scoping review	9
A Race-Conscious Approach Toward Research on Racial Inequities in Palliative Care	9
All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil	9
Reflections on Cultural Humility in the End-Stages of Parkinson's: The Journey of a Mandarin-speaking Patient	9
PC-FACS, November 7, 2024	9
The Use of Ketamine for End-of-Life Symptom Control in a Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Neurologic Disease (CS362)	9
Parental Attitudes Towards Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: Insights From Bereaved Families	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
HPNA Nessa Coyle Leadership Lecture—The Unheard Voices of Everyday Leaders: The Difference Listening Makes (INV124)	9
Editorial Board	9
Improving Access to Meaningful Advance Care Planning Conversations Across a Healthcare System (SA315B)	9
Predictors of Family Caregivers’ Depressive- and Prolonged-Grief-Disorder-Symptom Trajectories	9
Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science (SA303A)	9
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher	9
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)	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
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
Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Different Clinical Profiles Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure	9
Evidence Guiding Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: A Review	9
The Design of a Data Management System for a Multicenter Palliative Care Cohort Study	9
Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Use for Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) in Pediatric Oncology: A Ten-Year Review (GP750)	9
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)	9
Predictors of Symptom Reporting Concordance Between Patient and Provider in the Context of Cancer and Multimorbidity (GP725)	9
What's in the Sauce? The Specific Benefits of Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease	9