Palliative & Supportive Care

Papers
(The median citation count of Palliative & Supportive Care 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
PAX volume 20 issue 6 Cover and Front matter52
Would compassion be able to intervene?43
An exploratory qualitative study on factors influencing the level of agreement in symptom reports in child–caregiver dyads38
The silk road35
Leaving a lasting legacy: A scoping review of ethical wills34
Spiritual care interventions for palliative care patients: A scoping review27
A little rain22
Family caregivers’ experience of communication with nursing home staff from admission to end of life during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study employing a transitional perspective20
Utilization of medical interventions in hospitalized Mexican adults with cancer at the end of life in a referral hospital: The importance of early palliative care19
The final beeps of the final beats19
Decisions about treatment with targeted therapies in a palliative care unit: A case series17
Reliability and validity of the Self-Efficacy in Palliative Care Scale among nurses17
Validation of the Mexican version of the Schedule of Attitudes Toward Hastened Death in patients undergoing palliative care in Mexico16
Matter16
Burden and anticipatory grief in caregivers of family members with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias14
When and how to discuss about palliative care and advance care planning with cancer patients: A mixed-methods study14
Scrambler therapy for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: A case report14
Inclusive palliative care for LGBTQIA+ individuals: A socioecological perspective on barriers and enablers14
Self-compassion training in palliative care during COVID-19: A pilot study14
Virtual reality for improving pain and pain-related symptoms in patients with advanced stage colorectal cancer: A pilot trial to test feasibility and acceptability14
“Rapid tele-psychotherapy” with single-session music therapy in the metaverse: An alternative solution for mental health services in the future13
A qualitative exploration of the impact of healthcare pre- and post-death on bereavement experiences13
Translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the mindful self-care scale among Brazilian palliative care providers13
The 2nd Annual US Celebration of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day: A virtual coming together to support equity in palliative care access12
Increased preparedness for caregiving among family caregivers in specialized home care by using the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool Intervention12
Development and evaluation of a Hospice Foundation of Taiwan Bereavement Assessment Scale: A psychometric properties test12
Emotional ecosystems: Understanding the relationship between family interactions and anxiety among cancer caregivers12
Vacancies11
Integration of the geriatric palliative care in oncological care of elderly patient with cancer11
Providing care for siblings of children on hospice11
Unsolved problems and unwanted decision-making in the last year of life: A qualitative analysis of comments from bereaved caregivers11
Emotion dysregulation and family functioning moderate family caregiving burden during the pandemic11
Patient beliefs associated with medication hesitancy in palliative care: A systematic review using the theory of planned behavior11
Anthropology and its aftermath: Humanity in medical training11
Shores of acceptance10
The relationship between moral distress, individual and professional values in oncology nurses: A structural equation study10
Nursing students’ willingness to discuss hospice and palliative care with family and associated factors: A cross-sectional study10
Motivations for choosing “home” as one’s preferred place of death: A scoping review10
Tongue edema as an adverse drug reaction to low-dose olanzapine in a cancer patient receiving palliative care10
Wernicke encephalopathy in a caregiver: A serious physical issue resulting from stress in a family member caring for an advanced cancer patient10
Inevitable changes10
A cognitive behavioral therapy–based intervention to address body image in patients with facial cancers: Results from a randomized controlled trial10
Making space for grief: The impact of remembrance programs for pediatric healthcare providers9
Nurses’ experiences of suicide attempts in palliative care9
BRS: The Becker-Rank Syndrome9
Compassion fatigue and palliative care in neonatal nurses9
Talking about dying and death: Essentials of communicating about approaching death from the perspective of major stakeholders9
For Silvia9
Digging deeper: A critique of the mediation study of spirituality in ALS patients9
Which has more influence on a family's assessment of the quality of dying of their long-term care resident with dementia: Frequency of symptoms or quality of communication with healthcare team?9
Providing home hospice care for LGBTQ+ patients and caregivers: Perceptions and opinions of hospice interdisciplinary care team providers9
Good death and bereavement in a lung cancer patient following meaning-centered couples psychotherapy by a cancer nursing specialist9
Homing instinct8
Concomitant use of hydroxyzine and haloperidol did not worsen delirium in patients with cancer: A multicenter, retrospective, observational study8
Adapting to the emotional complexity of palliative care communication: Palliative care clinicians’ experiences8
Died with compassion8
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and mediative behavioral therapy for the treatment of suffocation related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A8
Validation of the Spanish translation Sheffield Profile for Assessment and Referral for Care (SPARC-Sp) at the Hospital Universitario San Jose of Popayan, Colombia8
Redefining caregiver strain for family caregivers in end-of-life care in Hong Kong – CORRIGENDUM8
“A Wanderer's Tale”: The development of a virtual reality application for pain and quality of life in Australian burns and oncology patients8
Psychological symptom burden associated with malignant wounds: Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study8
Examining the development of information needs assessment tools for use in the cancer context: A scoping and critical review8
Sharing the burden: The experiences of HIV psychiatrists delivering primary palliative care8
Race and prevalence of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in patients with advanced dementia8
Prognostic utility of Palliative Prognostic Index in advanced cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Exploring the landscape of palliative care provision for black patients with hematologic cancers: A scoping review7
Building dignity at the bedside: A reflective clinical model for clinical encounters7
“What it is like to be human”: The existential dimension of care as perceived by professionals caring for people approaching death7
The communication experiences of persons referred to specialist palliative care services and their carers: A descriptive phenomenological study7
Experiences and attitudes of nurses with the legislation on assisted suicide in Austria7
Be a burden7
The last time I saw mother7
What are family caregivers’ experiences of coordinating end-of-life care at home? A narrative review7
Are specialist-provided end-of-life scenarios key to initiation of advance care planning in primary care? A mixed-methods study7
Dignity-related distress and recall among alert, non-delirious critically ill patients7
Healing across cultures7
Palliative care providers’ roles in medical assistance in dying decision-making triads with patients and families: A qualitative analysis7
Fighting racism in research – CORRIGENDUM7
Assessment of psychometric properties of the Persian version of the spiritual care competency self-assessment tool7
Spiritual embrace: A source of strength for caregivers in a mental health crisis7
The place of the relative at the time of the announcement of cancer progression: BABEL – a mixed-methods study7
The efficacy of “rapid tele-psychotherapy” with single-session music therapy: A personal reflection as a founder6
Evaluation of the Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum in Australia: Online6
Access to palliative and supportive care in the Philippines: A call to action6
End-of-life care for Filipino patients with cancer6
Identifying patients in need of palliative care: Adaptation of the Necesidades Paliativas CCOMS-ICO© (NECPAL) screening tool for use in Israel6
What we learnt from parents’ death experience: A cross-sectional study of death literacy and parent’s death quality among adult children in China6
Improving palliative care in Nepal through virtual education6
Strategies to prepare hospice providers to interact with adolescents with a parent in hospice6
I Am More6
Qualitative analysis of expressions used in the end-of-life discussions and their associated factors6
Disrespectful and inadequate palliative care to lesbian, gay, and bisexual patients6
Knowledge, goals, and misperceptions about palliative care in adults with chronic disease or cancer6
Factors influencing nurse spiritual care practices at the end of life: A systematic review6
Perceived organizational support moderates the effect of job demands on outcomes: Testing the JD-R model in Italian oncology nurses6
The effects of illness perception on death anxiety and satisfaction with life in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer6
Bereavement guilt among young adults impacted by caregivers’ cancer: Associations with attachment style, experiential avoidance, and psychological flexibility6
Virtual reality and neurofeedback as a supportive approach to managing cancer symptoms for patients receiving treatment: A brief report of a feasibility trial6
Compassion fatigue and psychological resilience levels of nursing final students: A descriptive, cross-sectional, and relational study6
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada: Why Coelho and colleagues are incorrect to suggest the MAiD framework is in significant distress6
There is nothing informal about caregiving6
“It seemed I was having a conversation with him”: Posthumous Dignity Therapy case series6
Life meaning constructed from dignity therapy in traditional Chinese culture: A qualitative analysis of dignity therapy generativity documents6
Palliative care physicians’ decision-making about palliative sedation for existential suffering: A Belgian nationwide qualitative study6
What I Will Miss and What I Will Not Miss When I Am Near Death: A List Poem6
Families’ experiences of end-of-life care in an acute private hospital: A qualitative study6
A survey of statistical methods utilized for analysis of randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions6
Voicing their choices: Advance care planning with adolescents and young adults with cancer and other serious conditions6
Wheelchair Song6
Deathbed experiences and meaning-making: Perspectives of family caregivers of patients who received cancer palliative care5
Barriers to advance care planning among patients with advanced serious illnesses: A national survey of health-care professionals in Singapore5
The impact of caregiver burden and associated factors on trait anger levels and anger expression styles in family caregivers of palliative care patients5
A commentary on “Spirituality moderates the relationship between cancer caregiver burden and depression” (La. I.S, 2023)5
But parents need help! Pathways to caregiver mental health care in pediatric hospital settings5
Danse Macabre in W.H. Auden’s “Death’s Echo”5
Prevalence and associated factors of psychological distress among young adult cancer patients in Japan5
Eulogy5
Dyadic sleep intervention for adult patients with cancer and their sleep-partner caregivers: A feasibility study5
Exploring unmet concerns in home hospice cancer care: Perspectives of patients, informal caregivers, palliative care providers, and family physicians5
Life/time/d - Is the life shortened, a shortened life?5
Experiences with health information among caregivers of people with cancer from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: A qualitative study5
Memento mori5
Volunteers’ spiritual care competence and its relationship with attitudes toward palliative care: A cross-sectional study5
Situations in which caregivers and patients are likely to collude: Perspectives from caregivers of advanced cancer patients in Bangladesh– ERRATUM5
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Palliative Nursing Care Quality Scale5
Peaceful acceptance and struggle with terminal cancer: The role of mindfulness, self-compassion, and body image distress5
Assessing the need for a question prompt list that encourages end-of-life discussions between patients with advanced cancer and their physicians: A focus group interview study5
The Palliative Story Exchange: An innovative storytelling intervention to build community, foster shared meaning, and improve sustainability5
An existential perspective on physician-assisted dying in contemporary legislative debates5
Ketamine subcutaneous continuous infusion for depressive symptoms at home: A case report beyond pain use5
The fragility of trust between patients and oncologists: A multiple case study5
Integrating ACP into Nigeria’s culture and healthcare system for improved end-of-life care5
Hemichorea–hemiballismus associated with a case of cerebral toxoplasmosis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient5
Advance care planning discussions – Perspectives from oncology patients with advanced-stage disease5
Post-biographical dignity in the age of artificial intelligence: Narrative, ePROMs and ethical challenges in end-of-life care5
Social injustice is moral suffering5
Factors associated with caregiver strain among mothers and fathers of children with advanced cancer5
“You’re the only thing he comes out [of his room] for”: A qualitative study of engagement between Laughter Care Specialists and families of people with dementia in long-term care5
Benefits of duloxetine may outweigh risks in a patient with hormone-positive breast cancer4
The 4th and 5th Annual U.S. World Hospice and Palliative Care Day conferences: Unifying the global palliative care community4
Palliative care in pediatric patients with central nervous system cancer: Descriptive and comparative study4
Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Posthumous Dignity Therapy Schedule of Questions to Brazilian Portuguese – CORRIGENDUM4
Refractory symptoms and end of life midazolam use in cancer patients, a single center experience4
The effectiveness of pretreatment video-based psychoeducation for patients with breast cancer4
Communicating about the end of life: The path of prognostic awareness4
Measuring compassion in end-of-life cancer patients: The Italian validation of the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire (SCQit)4
Precision medicine4
Embracing goodbye: A personal reflection on virtual reality intervention in palliative care4
The experiences of families of children with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative exploration4
From theory to compassion: Why duloxetine matters for chemotherapy-induced neuropathy in the Global South4
Moral and philosophical frameworks for discussing Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD)4
Development and evaluation of the feasibility, validity, and reliability of a screening tool for determining distress and supportive care needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer in Japan4
An interpretative qualitative case study of a Compassionate Cities initiative in the United Kingdom: Lessons for implementation in other settings4
Translation and validation of the Chinese version of Palliative Care Self-Efficacy Scale4
What do health professionals think about implementing psilocybin-assisted therapy in palliative care for existential distress? A World Café qualitative study4
AD-LAST! An interdisciplinary clinical workshop to improve cultural and spiritual awareness in advance care planning skills4
Identifying the active content of interventions targeting the psychological well-being of carers of people with motor neuron disease: A systematic review4
Against our post-modern palliation4
Spiritual care perceptions and empathy of Chinese nursing students: The mediating roles of spiritual well-being4
AutoFOCUS: A mindfulness-based intervention for caregivers of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients4
Situations in which caregivers and patients are likely to collude: Perspectives from caregivers of advanced cancer patients in Bangladesh4
Non-curative care options for patients with advanced-stage head and neck cancer: Current state of the science and future opportunities4
A cross-sectional study of the first two years of mandatory training for doctors participating in voluntary assisted dying4
Mystery prevails over absurdity4
Wernicke encephalopathy with active hallucinations during lung cancer treatment and hemodialysis: A case report4
Pancreatic cancer, depression, and spirituality in therapy: “Unio Mystica” and “Achrayut,” 2 case reports4
An award from the Indonesian World-Records Museum (MURI) for “rapid tele-psychotherapy” theory: The most prestigious achievement in my life4
Associations between Latino ethnicity and the use of emotional support and completion of advance directives4
Effective communication in palliative care from the perspectives of patients and relatives: A systematic review4
The Pediatric Serious Illness Conversation Program: Understanding challenges and experiences for clinicians after advance care planning training4
Patient altruism at the end of life: A scoping review3
When death is desired: A case of MAiD & the CL psychiatrist3
Cervical cancer survivors: The experiences of the journey3
Resonance, self-reflection, and preparedness through a web-based intervention for family caregivers of patients with life-threatening illness receiving specialised home care3
“Rapid counseling” with single-session music therapy in the workplace: An alternative treatment in increasing the constructiveness of destructive bystanders that promote resilience for caregivers3
Ivan Illich and convivial palliative care3
The effectiveness of compassion-based interventions among cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Children’s understanding of dying and death: A multinational grounded theory study3
Behind the scenes: Moral distress among psychosocial oncology clinical research staff during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Reflexive thematic analysis of emergency department medical records of dementia patients regarding the identification of last days of life3
Balancing burden and benefit: Reflecting on interviews with individuals nearing the end of their lives3
Silent melodies3
Palliative team involvement in end-of-life care for Jewish and Muslim children in Jerusalem: A unique clinical and cultural context3
Potential and challenges of virtual reality in improving the quality of life of palliative care patients3
Fulfilling end-of-life dreams: A scoping review of bucket lists in palliative and hospice care3
From “surviving to thriving”: Mood Lifters – a wellness program for parents of medically complex children3
The value of time3
Caring with time and despite de time: Reflections on prognosis3
Spirituality in the care of patients with cancer: What is the psychiatrist's role?3
Effect of virtual reality-based exercise intervention on sleep quality in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and healthy siblings: A randomized controlled trial3
Cosmology of belonging: The role of community in the therapeutic use of psychedelics3
Blips. On the death of my wife3
Evaluating the effectiveness of psilocybin in alleviating distress among cancer patients: A systematic review3
Facing discrimination in research3
Fatigue-related symptom clusters and functional status of older adults in hospice3
Melodies and memories3
Emergency department use and responsiveness to the palliative care needs of patients with dementia at the end of life: A scoping review3
Reiki intervention for supporting healthcare professional care behaviors in pediatric palliative care: A pilot study3
Identifying practical clinical problems in active euthanasia: A systematic literature review of the findings in countries where euthanasia is legal3
Facial edema as an adverse drug reaction to olanzapine in a patient with cancer receiving palliative care3
Remembrance programs in pediatric care: Transforming grief into community resilience3
Caring for carers of people with advanced cancer at hospital discharge (CARENET): A single-arm open label feasibility trial3
Stigma in Mexican patients with Lung Cancer: Psychometric Properties of the Cataldo Lung Cancer Stigma Scale (CLCSS) - Brief version3
The potential impact of proxy reports for symptom experience and care quality and experience in advanced cancer3
Acceptability of a Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Black Americans: Results from a focus group and oncology pilot study3
Healthcare professionals’ discussion of loss and grief with parents of children with life-limiting severe neurological impairment: Findings from a scoping review3
The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada – CORRIGENDUM3
The relationship between nursing students’ compassion competencies and perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care3
The Acknowledge–Normalize–Partner (ANP) Framework: A novel empathic communication tool for oncology nurses3
European interprofessional postgraduate curriculum in palliative care: A narrative synthesis of field interviews in the region of Middle, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and Central and West Asia3
Communicating is analogous to caring: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the patient–clinician communication experiences of individuals with ovarian cancer3
“Optimizing empathic self-disclosures in dignity therapy: Improving the patient–provider relationship for more humanistic palliative care”3
Valued Outcomes in the Cancer Experience (VOICE)™: Development and validation of a multidimensional measure of perceived control3
Irrevocably other: Narrative medicine and Jorge Luis Borges’ “The other death”3
Exploring the experience of a cognitive rehabilitation intervention for cancer-related cognitive change in people living with cancer: An interpretative phenomenological analysis3
Posthumous dignity therapy: Challenges and opportunities in the Brazilian cultural context3
Comparing situational influences on differential healthcare utilization trajectories in patients on home palliative care: A qualitative study3
Lessons from the Darkness3
Clinicians’ practices and attitudes regarding advance care planning in mainland China: A multicenter cross-sectional survey2
Complexity of needs in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients using the ENP-E scale in the north-eastern region of Spain2
Upper arm movements in the last days of life: A new possible sign of impending death2
Evaluating the acceptability of a self-directed, self-management intervention for patients and caregivers facing advanced cancer2
Narrative review of the impact on physicians of administering euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide and its association with moral distress2
“I’m not a physician, but i’m the expert for my child” experiences of parents caring for their child with a life-limiting condition in an inpatient setting – A qualitative study2
Humanizing the intensive care unit experience in a comprehensive cancer center: A patient- and family-centered improvement study2
Validation of the Mexican version of the EORTC QLQ-CR29 in patients with colorectal cancer2
Increasing the scope of virtual reality in palliative care: Insights and future directions2
Death in prison through a philosophical equity-informed lens2
Forgiveness: An important principle in medical ethics and palliative care?2
Effect of dignity therapy on meaning in life scores of cancer patients in palliative care2
Needs for nurses to provide spiritual care and their associated influencing factors among elderly inpatients with stroke in China: A cross-sectional quantitative study2
Measuring and understanding death anxiety in caregivers of patients with primary brain tumor2
Size and characteristics of family caregiving for people with serious illness: A population-based survey2
Prevalence of major depression, suicidal ideation, and mental health treatment among cancer survivors2
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Stress Scale for Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care for Children2
Cross-cultural validation of the integrated palliative outcome scale for neurological patients (IPOS-Neuro S8) in multiple sclerosis patients2
Family members’ long-term grief management: A prospective study of factors during ongoing palliative care and bereavement2
“Life goes on”: Perspectives on the will to live from residents of Swiss long-term care facilities2
Shaping a knowable event or embracing a mysterious journey: A mixed methods study on palliative care clinician views on voluntary assisted dying2
Impact of an education program to facilitate nurses’ discussions of existential issues in neurological care2
PAX volume 20 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
The role of structured remembrance programs in supporting the wellbeing of pediatric health workers2
Factors associated with death literacy among Swedish adults: A cross-sectional exploratory study2
Measuring double awareness in patients with advanced cancer: A preliminary scale development study2
Assessing risk for nonmedical opioid use among patients with cancer: Stability of the CAGE-AID questionnaire across clinical care settings2
The others: Siblings are caregivers, too2
Pitfalls in the conceptualization of primary palliative care and the WHO public palliative care framework2
Partnering to cope with pain: A pilot study of a caregiver-assisted pain coping skills intervention for patients with cognitive impairment and dementia2
A commentary on “‘What it is like to be human’: The existential dimension of care as perceived by professionals caring for people approaching death” (Bäckersten et al., 2023) – CORRIGENDUM2
Prevalence of and factors associated with demoralization among family caregivers of palliative care patients in Hong Kong2
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