BMC Palliative Care

Article	Citations
Family experiences with palliative care for children at home: a systematic literature review	46
How views of oncologists and haematologists impacts palliative care referral: a systematic review	46
Patients’ experiences of eHealth in palliative care: an integrative review	41
Using the technology acceptance model to explore health provider and administrator perceptions of the usefulness and ease of using technology in palliative care	38
Equity and the financial costs of informal caregiving in palliative care: a critical debate	36
Compassion in healthcare: an updated scoping review of the literature	36
Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes towards palliative care and death: a learning intervention	32
Caregiver burden among informal caregivers in the largest specialized palliative care unit in Malaysia: a cross sectional study	31
Examining public knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards palliative care: a mixed method sequential study	31
Knowledge, attitude, confidence, and educational needs of palliative care in nurses caring for non-cancer patients: a cross-sectional, descriptive study	30
Burnout and resilience among Canadian palliative care physicians	28
Parental bereavement – impact of death of neonates and children under 12 years on personhood of parents: a systematic scoping review	26
Barriers to advance care planning: a qualitative study of seriously ill Chinese patients and their families	26
What makes palliative care needs “complex”? A multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study of patients referred for specialist palliative care	25
Effect of palliative care training on perceived self-efficacy of the nurses	23
Evidence on the economic value of end-of-life and palliative care interventions: a narrative review of reviews	23
Physicians’ clinical prediction of survival in head and neck cancer patients in the palliative phase	22
Decision making in the end-of-life care of patients who are terminally ill with cancer – a qualitative descriptive study with a phenomenological approach from the experience of healthcare workers	22
How nurses support family caregivers in the complex context of end-of-life home care: a qualitative study	21
Factors influencing the integration of a palliative approach in intensive care units: a systematic mixed-methods review	21
What do you mean by “palliative sedation”?	21
Two faces of the same coin: a qualitative study of patients’ and carers’ coexistence with chronic breathlessness associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	21
Ethical challenges in family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer – a qualitative study	21
Barthel Index is a valid and reliable tool to measure the functional independence of cancer patients in palliative care	20
Prospective cohort study of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives on the experienced quality of care and life (eQuiPe study): a study protocol	20

Advance care planning conversations in primary care: a quality improvement project using the Serious Illness Care Program	20
Talking about death and dying in a hospital setting - a qualitative study of the wishes for end-of-life conversations from the perspective of patients and spouses	19
Priorities and opportunities for palliative and end of life care in United Kingdom health policies: a national documentary analysis	19
Quality indicators for the evaluation of end-of-life care in Germany – a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of statutory health insurance data	19
Exploring the relationship between spiritual well-being and death anxiety in patients with gynecological cancer: a cross-section study	19
Virtual reality video promotes effectiveness in advance care planning	19
A qualitative study of bereaved family caregivers: feeling of security, facilitators and barriers for rural home care and death for persons with advanced cancer	18
Compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among palliative care health providers: a scoping review	18
Better quality of end-of-life care for persons with advanced dementia in nursing homes compared to hospitals: a Swedish national register study	17
Advanced care planning during the COVID-19 pandemic: ceiling of care decisions and their implications for observational data	17
Communicating with patients and families about illness progression and end of life: a review of studies using direct observation of clinical practice	17
Health and intention to leave the profession of nursing - which individual, social and organisational resources buffer the impact of quantitative demands? A cross-sectional study	17
Validation and cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) for the Portuguese population	17
Stakeholder perspectives and requirements to guide the development of digital technology for palliative cancer services: a multi-country, cross-sectional, qualitative study in Nigeria, Uganda and Zimb	16
Complementary music therapy for cancer patients in at-home palliative care and their caregivers: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial	16
How can we improve the experiences of patients and families who request medical assistance in dying? A multi-centre qualitative study	16
Palliative Performance Scale and survival in patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses needing a palliative care consultation: a retrospective cohort study	16
Developing a family-reported measure of experiences with home-based pediatric palliative and hospice care: a multi-method, multi-stakeholder approach	16
A systematic scoping review on patients’ perceptions of dignity	16
Higher levels of unmet support needs in spouses are associated with poorer quality of life – a descriptive cross-sectional study in the context of palliative home care	15
What’s suffering got to do with it? A qualitative study of suffering in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)	15
The effect of neuropalliative care on quality of life and satisfaction with quality of care in patients with progressive neurological disease and their family caregivers: an interventional control stu	15
Experiences of bereaved family caregivers with shared decision making in palliative cancer treatment: a qualitative interview study	15
Caregiver’s burden at the end of life of their loved one: insights from a longitudinal qualitative study among working family caregivers	15
Palliative care providers’ use of digital health and perspectives on technological innovation: a national study	15
Supportive and palliative care indicators tool (SPICT™): content validity, feasibility and pre-test of the Italian version	14
“It’s given me confidence”: a pragmatic qualitative evaluation exploring the perceived benefits of online end‐of‐life education on clinical care	14
Views of advanced cancer patients, families, and oncologists on initiating and engaging in advance care planning: a qualitative study	14
The required competencies of physicians within palliative care from the perspectives of multi-professional expert groups: a qualitative study	14
Factors influencing GPs’ perception of specialised palliative homecare (SPHC) importance – results of a cross-sectional study	14
Instrumental and affective communication with patients with limited health literacy in the palliative phase of cancer or COPD	14
Learning to care for the spirit of dying patients: the impact of spiritual care training in a hospice-setting	14
“I want to get myself as fit as I can and not die just yet” – Perceptions of exercise in people with advanced cancer and cachexia: a qualitative study	14
Peer support to maintain psychological wellbeing in people with advanced cancer: findings from a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial	14
How compassionate communities are implemented and evaluated in practice: a scoping review	14
Hospice care self-efficacy among clinical medical staff working in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) isolation wards of designated hospitals: a cross–sectional study	13
Attitudes of registered nurses about the end – of – life care in multi-profile hospitals: a cross sectional survey	13
Predictors of the final place of care of patients with advanced cancer receiving integrated home-based palliative care: a retrospective cohort study	13
Assessing professional identity formation (PIF) amongst medical students in Oncology and Palliative Medicine postings: a SEBA guided scoping review	13
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Palliative Care in German Comprehensive Cancer Centers - an evaluation of the implementation status	13
National strategy for palliative care of severely ill and dying people and their relatives in pandemics (PallPan) in Germany - study protocol of a mixed-methods project	13
South African paramedic perspectives on prehospital palliative care	13
Perception of cancer in patients diagnosed with the most common gastrointestinal cancers	12
Health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer in the palliative phase: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Supporting patient access to medicines in community palliative care: on-line survey of health professionals’ practice, perceived effectiveness and influencing factors	12
Development and usability testing of Understanding Stroke, a tailored life-sustaining treatment decision support tool for stroke surrogate decision makers	12
A qualitative study on continuous deep sedation until death as an alternative to assisted suicide in Switzerland	12
A qualitative exploration of the unmet information needs of Chinese advanced cancer patients and their informal caregivers	12
Palliative care in its own discourse: a focused ethnography of professional messaging in palliative care	12
Spirituality alleviates the burden on family members caring for patients receiving palliative care exclusively	12

Bereavement interventions to support informal caregivers in the intensive care unit: a systematic review	12
Place of death associated with types of long-term care services near the end-of-life for home-dwelling older people in Japan: a pooled cross-sectional study	12
Systematic symptom and problem assessment at admission to the palliative care ward – perspectives and prognostic impacts	12
Conceptualising effective symptom management in palliative care: a novel model derived from qualitative data	11
Opportunities and challenges for advance care planning in strongly religious family-centric societies: a Focus group study of Indonesian cancer-care professionals	11
Challenges faced by Chinese community nurses when providing home-based hospice and palliative care: a descriptive qualitative study	11
The hospice as a learning space: a death education intervention with a group of adolescents	11
Access to and adequacy of psychological services for adult patients in UK hospices: a national, cross-sectional survey	11
To hydrate or not to hydrate? The effect of hydration on survival, symptoms and quality of dying among terminally ill cancer patients	11
Exploration of the acceptability and usability of advance care planning tools in long term care homes	11
Documentation of older people’s end-of-life care in the context of specialised palliative care: a retrospective review of patient records	11
End-of-life care in a pediatric intensive care unit: the impact of the development of a palliative care unit	11
Palliative care provider attitudes toward existential distress and treatment with psychedelic-assisted therapies	11
Perceptions, knowledge and attitudes towards the concept and approach of palliative care amongst caregivers: a cross-sectional survey in Karachi, Pakistan	11
The influence of symptom severity of palliative care patients on their family caregivers	11
Trend analysis of palliative care consultation service for terminally ill non-cancer patients in Taiwan: a 9-year observational study	11
Investigation of the awareness of and demand for hospice care and attitudes towards life-sustaining treatment at the end of life among community residents in Hangzhou	11
Symptoms, symptom relief and support in COVID-19 patients dying in hospitals during the first pandemic wave	11
“No thanks, I don’t want to see snakes again”: a qualitative study of pain management versus preservation of cognition in palliative care patients	11
Preferences for home care to enable home death among adult patients with cancer in late palliative phase – a grounded theory study	11
Enhanced home palliative care could reduce emergency department visits due to non-organic dyspnea among cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study	11
Specialist palliative care teams and characteristics related to referral rate: a national cross-sectional survey among hospitals in the Netherlands	11
Support received by family members before, at and after an ill person’s death	11
Randomized control trial of advanced cancer patients at a private hospital in Kenya and the impact of dignity therapy on quality of life	11
Dignity of patients with palliative needs in the Middle East: an integrative review	10
Parental perspectives on the grief and support needs of children and young people bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative findings from a national survey	10
Validation of the Palliative Prognostic Index, Performance Status–Based Palliative Prognostic Index and Chinese Prognostic Scale in a home palliative care setting for patients with advanced cancer in	10
Finnish nursing students’ perceptions of the development needs in palliative care education and factors influencing learning in undergraduate nursing studies – a qualitative study	10
Home hospitalization for palliative cancer care: factors associated with unplanned hospital admissions and death in hospital	10
Oral health plays second fiddle in palliative care: an interview study with registered nurses in home healthcare	10
Implementing volunteer-navigation for older persons with advanced chronic illness (Nav-CARE): a knowledge to action study	10
Chemotherapy during the last 30 days of life and the role of palliative care referral, a single center experience	10
Introducing cross-cultural education in palliative care: focus groups with experts on practical strategies	10
An explorative analysis of the differences in levels of happiness between cancer patients, informal caregivers and the general population	10
How well do documented goals-of-care discussions for patients with stage IV cancer reflect communication best practices?	10
Perceptions of palliative care in a South Asian community: findings from an observational study	10
Continuous subcutaneous infusion for pain control in dying patients: experiences from a tertiary palliative care center	10
Validity and reliability of the English and translated Chinese versions of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) in Singapore	10
“Transition from children’s to adult services for adolescents/young adults with life-limiting conditions: developing realist programme theory through an international comparison”	10
Comparison of the experience of caregiving at end of life or in hastened death: a narrative synthesis review	10
Advance care planning preferences in Chinese nursing home residents: results from two cross-sectional studies in Hong Kong and Taiwan	10
Association between attitude towards death and spiritual care competence of Chinese oncology nurses: a cross-sectional study	10
Palliative care for rural growth and wellbeing: identifying perceived barriers and facilitators in access to palliative care in rural Indiana, USA	10
Analysis of the unmet needs of Palestinian advanced cancer patients and their relationship to emotional distress: results from a cross-sectional study	10
Navigating a newly diagnosed cancer through clinician-facilitated discussions of health-related patient values: a qualitative analysis	10
Second opinions in medical oncology	10
A scoping review of the evidence for community-based dementia palliative care services and their related service activities	10
“Teach for ethics in palliative care”: a mixed-method evaluation of a medical ethics training programme	10
Providing dignity therapy to patients with advanced cancer: a feasibility study within the setting of a hospital palliative care unit	9
Brief Engagement and Acceptance Coaching for Hospice Settings (the BEACHeS study): results from a Phase I study of acceptability and initial effectiveness in people with non-curative cancer	9
Challenges for palliative care day services: a focus group study	9
Patients and family caregivers report high treatment expectations during palliative chemotherapy: a longitudinal prospective study	9
Paediatric palliative screening scale as a useful tool for clinicians’ assessment of palliative care needs of pediatric patients: a retrospective cohort study	9
Prescription trends at the end of life in a palliative care unit: observational study	9
Development of an international Core Outcome Set (COS) for best care for the dying person: study protocol	9
The impact of uncertainty on bereaved family’s experiences of care at the end of life: a thematic analysis of free text survey data	9
Hospice care providers experiences of grappling with medical assistance in dying in a hospice setting: a qualitative descriptive study	9
Co-construction of the family-focused support conversation: a participatory learning and action research study to implement support for family members whose relatives are being discharged for end-of-l	9
Role of nurses in medication management at the end of life: a qualitative interview study	9
Knowledge of end-of-life wishes by physicians and family caregivers in cancer patients	9
The relationship between anticipatory grief and illness uncertainty among Chinese family caregivers of patients with advanced lung cancer: a cross-sectional study	9
Systematic adaptation of the Thai version of the supportive and palliative care indicators tool for low-income setting (SPICT-LIS)	9
How does ethnicity affect presence of advance care planning in care records for individuals with advanced disease? A mixed-methods systematic review	9
The training effects of a continuing education program on nurses’ knowledge and attitudes to palliative care: a cross sectional study	9
Where would Canadians prefer to die? Variation by situational severity, support for family obligations, and age in a national study	9
Hypernatremia at admission predicts poor survival in patients with terminal cancer: a retrospective cohort study	8
Factors influencing length of survival in ambulatory palliative care - a cross sectional study based on secondary data	8
Simulation-based learning in palliative care in postgraduate nursing education: a scoping review	8
Nurses’ perceptions of barriers and supportive behaviors in end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a cross-sectional study	8
Impact on place of death in cancer patients: a causal exploration in southern Switzerland	8
An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study	8
Palliative care for nursing home patients with dementia: service evaluation and risk factors of mortality	8
Addressing challenges in information-provision: a qualitative study among oncologists and women with advanced breast cancer	8
Community palliative care services on addressing physical and psychosocial needs in people with advanced illness: a prospective cohort study	8
Professional oral care in end-of-life patients with advanced cancers in a hospice ward: improvement of oral conditions	8
Factors affecting quality of end-of-life hospital care - a qualitative analysis of free text comments from the i-CODE survey in Norway	8
Patient participation and associated factors in the discussions on do-not-attempt-resuscitation and end-of-life disclosure: a retrospective chart review study	8
Living and dying with incurable cancer: a qualitative study on older patients’ life values and healthcare professionals’ responsivity	8
A pilot evaluation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) program	8
Control in patients with advanced cancer: an interpretative phenomenological study	8

Facilitating advance care planning in the general practice setting for patients with a chronic, life-limiting illness: protocol for a phase-III cluster-randomized controlled trial and process evaluati	8
Delphi consensus on strategies in the management of opioid-induced constipation in cancer patients	8
Verbalizing spiritual needs in palliative care: a qualitative interview study on verbal and non-verbal communication in two Danish hospices	8
Virtual reality reduces pain in palliative care–A feasibility trial	8
Optimizing of a question prompt list to improve communication about the heart failure trajectory in patients, families, and health care professionals	8
Building a telepalliative care strategy in nursing homes: a qualitative study with mobile palliative care teams	8
Psychosocial distress and the quality of life of cancer patients in two health facilities in Cameroon	8
Designing a Mission statement Mobile app for palliative care: an innovation project utilizing design-thinking methodology	8
Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Chinese version of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool for family caregivers of cancer patients receiving home-based hospice care	8
Collaborative advance care planning in advanced cancer patients: col-ACP –study – study protocol of a randomised controlled trial	8
Socioeconomy as a prognostic factor for location of death in Swedish palliative cancer patients	8
Changes in decision-making process for life-sustaining treatment in patients with advanced cancer after the life-sustaining treatment decisions-making act	8
The level of knowledge about palliative care in Iranian patients with cancer	8
Midazolam sedation in palliative medicine: retrospective study in a French center for cancer control	8
Caring for depression in the dying is complex and challenging – survey of palliative physicians	8
Is progress being made on Canada’s palliative care framework and action plan? A survey of stakeholder perspectives	8
Expanding the 3 Wishes Project for compassionate end-of-life care: a qualitative evaluation of local adaptations	8
Exploring socioeconomic inequities in access to palliative and end-of-life care in the UK: a narrative synthesis	8
Healthcare providers’ perception of advance care planning for patients with critical illnesses in acute-care hospitals: a cross-sectional study	8
Supportive and palliative care indicators tool (SPICT™) in a Danish healthcare context: translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and content validation	8
Quality of online self-management resources for adults living with primary brain cancer, and their carers: a systematic environmental scan	8
Perceptions and practices of spiritual care among hospice physicians and nurses in a Taiwanese tertiary hospital: a qualitative study	8
Need for additional professional psychosocial and spiritual support in patients with advanced diseases in the course of specialist palliative care – a longitudinal observational study	8
Understanding family caregivers’ needs to support relatives with advanced progressive disease at home: an ethnographic study in rural Portugal	8
A mixed-method evaluation of a volunteer navigation intervention for older persons living with chronic illness (Nav-CARE): findings from a knowledge translation study	7
Spiritual care practices in hospices in the Western cape, South Africa: the challenge of diversity	7
Evaluation of an advance care planning training program for practice professionals in Japan incorporating shared decision making skills training: a prospective study of a curricular intervention	7
Unmet needs in palliative care for patients with common non-cancer diseases: a cross-sectional study	7
The end of life experiences of people living with socio-economic deprivation in the developed world: an integrative review	7
Does ethnicity affect pain management for people with advanced disease? A mixed methods cross-national systematic review of ‘very high’ Human Development Index English-speaking countries	7
Psychological distress and resilience in patients with advanced cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic: the mediating role of spirituality	7
NUrsing Homes End of Life care Program (NUHELP): developing a complex intervention	7
Inpatient generalist palliative care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – experiences, challenges and potential solutions from the perspective of health care workers	7
Exploring the status of and demand for palliative day-care clinics and day hospices in Germany: a protocol for a mixed-methods study	7
Exploring the costs, consequences and efficiency of three types of palliative care day services in the UK: a pragmatic before-and-after descriptive cohort study	7
The experiences of clinical nurses coping with patient death in the context of rising hospital deaths in China: a qualitative study	7
Palliative care nurse champions’ views on their role and impact: a qualitative interview study among hospital and home care nurses	7
Health-related expectations of the chronically critically ill: a multi-perspective qualitative study	7
Advance care planning in primary care: a retrospective medical record study among patients with different illness trajectories	7
An integrative review to identify how nurses practicing in inpatient specialist palliative care units uphold the values of nursing	7
Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of palliative care interventions in people with chronic heart failure and their caregivers: a systematic review	7
Cancer patients spend more time at home and more often die at home with advance care planning conversations in primary health care: a retrospective observational cohort study	7
Evaluating quality of care at the end of life and setting best practice performance standards: a population-based observational study using linked routinely collected administrative databases	7
Factors influencing terminal cancer patients’ autonomous DNR decision: a longitudinal statutory document and clinical database study	7
Melatonin to prevent delirium in patients with advanced cancer: a double blind, parallel, randomized, controlled, feasibility trial	7
The Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) intervention for adolescents and young adults receiving hematopoietic cell transplantation: a randomized controlled trial protocol	7
End-of-life care preferences among cancer patients in Southern Thailand: a university hospital-based cross-sectional survey	7
Adaptation of the Australian Palliative Care Phase concept to the German palliative care context: a mixed-methods approach using cognitive interviews and cross-sectional data	7
Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of patient and family preferences of patient place of death: a qualitative study	7
Caregiver burden among family caregivers of incurable cancer patients in two eastern Mediterranean countries	7
Chinese medical teachers’ cultural attitudes influence palliative care education: a qualitative study	7
Palliative care in the pre-hospital service in Brazil: experiences of health professionals	7
Nurse-led normalised advance care planning service in hospital and community health settings: a qualitative study	7
Before the 2020 Pandemic: an observational study exploring public knowledge, attitudes, plans, and preferences towards death and end of life care in Wales	7
Engaging family caregivers and health system partners in exploring how multi-level contexts in primary care practices affect case management functions and outcomes of patients and family caregivers at	7
A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer	7
Advancing pediatric palliative care in a low-middle income country: an implementation study, a challenging but not impossible task	7
Quality of life of patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma initiating first-line chemotherapy in routine practice	7
Pain talk in hospice care: a conversation analysis	7
Evaluating satisfaction with the quality and provision of end-of-life care for patients from diverse ethnocultural backgrounds	7
A survey of cancer care institutions in Nepal to inform design of a pain management mobile application	7
Differing needs of mothers and fathers during their child’s end-of-life care: secondary analysis of the “Paediatric end-of-life care needs” (PELICAN) study	7
Subjective burdens among informal caregivers of critically ill patients: a cross-sectional study in rural Shandong, China	7
A meaning-centered spiritual care training program for hospice palliative care teams in South Korea: development and preliminary evaluation	7