BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cardiac dysfunction in solid tumours: scoping review43
Palliative care utilisation globally by cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis40
Quality of dying and death in intensive care units: family satisfaction37
Mindfulness-based therapies for cancer patients and families: a systematic review33
Home-based physical symptom management for family caregivers: systematic review and meta-analysis32
Distinct morning and evening fatigue profiles in gastrointestinal cancer during chemotherapy30
Pegfilgrastim safety and efficacy on the last chemotherapy day versus the next: systematic review and meta-analysis30
Fatigue in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia: general population comparison and predictive factors28
Early oral feeding post gastrectomy in gastric cancer: quasi-experimental study27
The clock is ticking: can palliative care survive the dual crises of time and workforce shortages?27
Staff well-being in UK children’s hospices: a national survey22
Cancer patient navigation22
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided neurolysis in advanced pancreatic cancer: current status22
Neutropenic event incidence in women with early-stage breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy: a retrospective study22
Complementary and integrative medicine intervention in front-line COVID-19 clinicians20
Corticosteroids for pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis19
Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and palliative care: a scoping review18
Palliation of heart failure: value-based supportive care18
Using a validated case mix tool for use in the telephone-assisted triage of patients in a specialist palliative care community setting: a consecutive case series17
Resuscitation code status among emergency department patients: decision support education video pilot study17
Early palliative care in newly diagnosed cancer in Ethiopia: feasibility randomised controlled trial and cost analysis17
Cancer pain management: long-term maintenance therapy16
End-of-life and immediate postdeath acute hospital interventions: scoping review16
Video consultations in community palliative care – patient satisfaction: mixed methods study16
Ogilvie’s syndrome: bidirectional effect of hypokalaemia16
Systemic anticancer therapy cessation: clinician–patient communication16
Opioid-induced nausea and vomiting: a dexamethasone multicentre prospective study16
Patient Values: Three Important Questions—Tell me more? Why? What else?15
Legalised active assistance in dying: palliative care stakeholders’ national e-consultation15
Integrative oncology for palliative care nurses: pre–post training evaluation15
Complex symptom control with early integrated palliative medicine for a primary mediastinal mass14
Anxiety and depression in lung cancer: effect of psychological interventions – network meta-analysis14
Venting percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy in malignant bowel obstruction: safety and effectiveness in a comprehensive cancer centre13
Postcancer treatment support programme: an evaluation13
Antidepressant use and hyperactive delirium at the end of life: retrospective study13
COVID-19 pandemic stress and cancer symptom burden13
Dexmedetomidine and clonidine in palliative medicine: multicentric qualitative evaluation13
Physician continuity of care in the last year of life in community-dwelling adults: retrospective population-based study12
Existential distress in family caregivers: scoping review of meaning-making interventions12
What does the general public know about palliative care? A population-based survey11
Parkinson’s disease: symptoms and medications at the end of life11
Procalcitonin in advanced urological cancer—bacterial versus non-bacterial infections: prospective cohort study11
Immersive virtual reality and psychological well-being in adult chronic physical illness: systematic review11
To refer or not? Oncology and palliative care11
Prophylactic antibiotics and corticosteroid prescribing in palliative medicine: retrospective study10
Chronic fatigue syndrome post-COVID-19: triple-blind randomised clinical trial of Astragalus root extract10
Support programme for bereaved relative: a retrospective observational study10
Artificial intelligence and large language models in palliative medicine clinical practice and education10
Qualified and motivated, but limited by specialty-specific barriers: a national survey of UK Palliative Medicine consultants research experience10
Palliative medicine integration in the USA: cancer centre executives’ attitudes9
Action plans in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a qualitative study—‘I do what I can do’9
Reduced oral intake: patient, family, clinician communication9
Iron deficiency in patients with cancer: a prospective cross-sectional study9
Digital health for cancer symptom management in palliative medicine: systematic review9
Mapping palliative care provision in European prisons: an EAPC Task Force Survey9
Describing taste changes and their potential impacts on paediatric patients receiving cancer treatments9
Opioid-induced constipation: a stepwise treatment algorithm feasibility study9
Connect, care, create: practical framework for physical environment design for person-centred palliative care9
COVID-19 and palliative medicine: faith-based hospitals in India9
Palliative care integration into outpatient heart failure management: pilot study9
Community prescribing for cancer patients at the end of life: a national study9
Naldemedine-laxative combination: retrospective inpatient study8
Well-being treatments in cancer care: patient benefits8
Spiritual interventions for cancer pain: a systematic review and narrative synthesis8
Hospital care for the dying patient with cancer: does an advance care planning invitation influence bereaved relatives’ experiences? A two country survey8
Alfentanil conversion ratios and successful analgesia8
Acceptability of the palliative dyspnoea protocol by emergency clinicians8
Malignant bowel obstruction symptoms: subcutaneous bolus esomeprazole-retrospective case series8
‘Value’ of advance care plans: health economics revisited8
From COVID-19 adversity comes opportunity: teaching an online integrative medicine course8
Oncology palliative care: access barriers: bibliometric study8
Edmonton symptom assessment system global distress score and overall survival among patients with advanced cancer receiving early palliative care8
The carbon footprint of a hospice8
Emergency department and hospital utilisation and expenditures in the last year of life: retrospective chronic diseases cohort study8
Mortality in hospitalised older patients: the WHALES short-term predictive score8
Patient–caregiver dyads advance care plan value discussions: randomised controlled cancer trial of video decision support tool8
Drug prescribing changes in the last year of life among homebound older adults: national retrospective cohort study8
Improved needs identification in medical intensive care and palliative medicine: retrospective cohort study7
Ambulatory palliative care and cancer symptom control: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Kidney failure end-of-life care: impact of advance care planning – retrospective observational study7
Skeletal muscle mass recovery after oesophagectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal cancer: retrospective cohort study7
Cancer survivors and neurotoxic chemotherapy: hearing loss and tinnitus7
Symptom management in people dying with COVID-19: multinational observational study7
Oral propantheline in palliative care: two further cases – bowel/bladder spasm and high-output stoma7
Head and neck cancer post-treatment clinical pathways for patients and relatives: hospital and patient organisations collaboration – feasibility study7
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health7
Help for non-specialists assessing EOLC7
Parkinson’s disease – palliative care needs assessment tool: adaptation and psychometric testing7
Diamorphine pharmacokinetics and conversion factor estimates for intranasal diamorphine in paediatric breakthrough pain:systematic review7
Physical exercise and fatigue in advanced gastrointestinal cancer during chemotherapy7
Palliative care symptoms and problems in a culturally and linguistically diverse population: large retrospective cohort study7
Duloxetine for prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): systematic review and meta-analysis7
Existential distress: identification and management by hospice and palliative medicine fellows7
Medical assistance in dying in hospice: A qualitative study7
Cancer patient management: role of multidisciplinary teams7
Symptom prevalence and severity in palliative cancer medicine7
Early satiety in cancer7
Short-term and long-term survival in patients with prevalent haemodialysis—an integrated prognostic model: external validation7
Effects of early exposure to palliative care on end-of-life outcomes in patients with cancer in a community setting6
Bleeding management in palliative medicine: subcutaneous tranexamic acid - retrospective chart review6
Patient card games in palliative care: integrative review6
Prognostic models and factors identifying end-of-life in non-cancer chronic diseases: a systematic review6
Medical oncologist stereotypes among medical students, residents and physicians: a national cross-sectional study6
Artificial intelligence for better goals of care documentation6
Limitations in health professionals’ knowledge of end-of-life law: a cross-sectional survey6
Home palliative medicine: an audit of weekend and public holiday telephones on-call6
Burnout and attachment in oncology and palliative care healthcare professionals6
Cancer experience in metaphors: patients, carers, professionals, students – a scoping review6
Clinical emergencies in inpatient hospice: simulation-based training to improve nursing confidence6
Fluid retention and weight loss in refractory cancer cachexia6
Repeated radiological procedures in the last 6 months of life in old age: a retrospective study6
Cancer advance care planning: development of a screening tool6
Neuropalliative care in a tertiary-level hospital6
Dignity therapy, psycho-spiritual well-being and quality of life in the terminally ill: systematic review and meta-analysis6
Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review6
End of life in haematology: quality of life predictors – retrospective cohort study6
End of life in general practice: trends 2009–20196
Public knowledge and attitudes concerning palliative care6
Racial end-of-life care disparities in paediatric gastrointestinal malignancies in the USA6
Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from breast cancer: an ambiguous entity5
Sympathetic blocks in cancer pain: coordinate based step-by-step fluoroscopic-guided transdiscal approach5
Subcutaneous dimenhydrinate and levomepromazine – tolerability and compatibility: observational study5
Palliative medicine video consultations in the pandemic: patient feedback5
Lacosamide in palliative medicine: a retrospective chart review5
Palliative care for infants with life-limiting conditions: integrative review5
Seizures in palliative medicine: brivaracetam5
Social and therapeutic horticulture as a palliative care intervention5
Acute palliative care units: characteristics, activities and outcomes – scoping review5
Acute hospital specialist palliative care: multidisciplinary team models and workforce in South West England5
Malignant insulinoma hypoglycaemia: complex palliative management5
Anxiety and resilience in palliative medicine physicians5
Palliation of malignancies in HIV infection5
COVID-19 deaths in care homes: primary care management study5
Image-guided placement of totally implanted vascular access device: retrospective analysis of the clinical outcomes and associated risk factors5
Prion disease: clinical pathway development for the terminally ill5
Medical cannabis for refractory cancer-related pain in a specialised clinical service: a cross-sectional study5
Caregiver burden and quality of life in palliative care: cross-sectional study5
Public interest in medical assistance in dying and palliative care5
Prospective oversight and approval of assisted dying cases in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative study of doctors’ perspectives5
Febrile neutropenia prophylaxis, G-CSF physician preferences: discrete-choice experiment5
Palliative medicine specialist and general practitioner interactions: national survey5
Delirium in patients with musculoskeletal tumours: incidence and risk factors – single-centre prospective study5
Anti-fibrinolytics for mucosal bleeding in adults with life-limiting illnesses: a systematic review5
Transdermal clonidine for agitation and pain5
Paediatric advance care planning in life-limiting conditions: scoping review of parent experiences5
Quality of skeletal muscles during allogeneic stem-cell transplantation: a pilot study5
Percutaneous cervical cordotomy for chest wall pain from mesothelioma in the setting of neuromyelitis5
mHOMR: a prospective observational study of an automated mortality prediction model to identify patients with unmet palliative needs5
Palliative care need screening and specialised referrals fell during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide register-based study5
Home-based telerehabilitation in multiple sclerosis: a scoping review5
Cognitive complaints during breast cancer endocrine therapy: aromatase inhibitors versus tamoxifen5
Clinician estimates of prognosis: accuracy and impact—a retrospective inpatient hospice study4
Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers4
‘Blood transfusions in palliative medicine and symptom control in solid tumours’4
Finalising the administration of co-SSPedi, a dyad approach to symptom screening for paediatric patients receiving cancer treatments4
Patient awareness of palliative care: systematic review4
Social media for palliative and end-of-life care research: a systematic review4
Paediatric neuro-disability end-of-life care: symptom burden and management4
Dyspnoea at the end of life: instrument development and validation-the CONFORTO Strategy4
Ethnicity and palliative care: we need better data – five key considerations4
Cancer survivors: long-term opioid therapy – the challenge4
Case studies on psychosocial factors that help make exercise programmes for prostate cancer patients self-sustaining4
Assessment of blended learning palliative care educational programme in cancer treatment centres in India4
Clinical pharmacist in oncology palliative medicine: drug compliance and patient adherence4
Pulmonary referrals to specialist palliative medicine: a survey4
Acute Mental Health Unit referrals to a Hospital Specialist and Supportive Palliative Care Liaison Team4
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world4
Challenges with cancer pain management: novel opioid shortages and cancer trials restrictions4
Motor neuron disease specialist palliative care: impact of COVID-19 pandemic4
Hydromorphone for dyspnoea in terminally ill patients with cancer: case series4
Telemedicine for outpatient palliative care during COVID-19 pandemics: a longitudinal study4
Morphine for chronic breathlessness in COPD: improvement predictors-cross-sectional study4
Head and neck cancer end of life care: complex challenges4
Comparative study of clinicians’ and family members’ perceptions of patients’ end-of-life experiences4
Spiritual distress: symptoms, quality of life and hospital utilisation in home-based palliative care4
Ought the level of sedation to be reduced during deep palliative sedation? A clinical and ethical analysis4
Primary-level palliative care national capacity: Pallium Canada4
Inflammatory marker cut-off points and prognosis in incurable cancer: validation study4
Religious practices and quality of life in palliative care: insights from Tanzania4
Valproic acid as an adjuvant analgesic: adult Fanconi syndrome4
How to talk with the family of a dying patient: anger to understanding, rage to compassion, loss to acceptance4
Spiritual conversation model for patients and loved ones in palliative care: a validation study4
Home symptom management training programme: carer evaluation4
Low skeletal muscle mass is clinically underestimated in advanced metastatic prostate cancer: the cross-sectional SCAN study4
Efficacy of models of palliative care delivered beyond the traditional physician-led, subspecialty consultation service model: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
Opioids in advanced cancer: use, storage and disposal in the home3
Rheumatology and palliative care: needs and opportunities3
Absolute lymphocyte count as a biomarker for best supportive care transition in metastatic breast cancer3
Preoperative frailty in oesophageal cancer: postoperative outcomes and overall survival – meta-analysis and systematic review3
Primary palliative care in Japan: needs estimation and projections – national database study with international comparisons3
Pressure ulcer prevention: family caregiver training effectiveness3
Advanced heart failure: parenteral diuretics for breathlessness and peripheral oedema – systematic review3
Symptom assessment in the dying: family members versus healthcare professionals3
Nutrition assessment defects in cancer clinical trials3
Symptom evolution in the dying3
Assisted suicide and capital punishment: a mirror image?3
Communication skills: simulated patient goals of care workshop for acute care clinicians3
Episodic breathlessness in patients with cancer: definition, terminology, clinical features – integrative systematic review3
Advanced cancer and COVID-19 comorbidity: medical oncology-palliative medicine ethics meetings in a comprehensive cancer centre3
Exercise during treatment for advanced cervical cancer3
Palliative Medicine in Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Patients and Caregivers - A Qualitative Study3
Non-specialist palliative care - question prompt list preparation: patient, family and clinician experiences3
Palliative medicine education—Bed Race, The End of Life Board Game in undergraduates3
Head and neck cancer fungating wounds: a novel odour transferrer3
Unplanned hospitalisations in older people: illness trajectories in the last year of life3
People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their caregivers: what matters most?3
Yoga versus iPad active control for fatigue in paediatric cancer therapy: a randomised controlled trial3
Neonatal serious illness: operational definition3
Advance care planning imperative: High-quality patient-centred goals of care3
End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death3
Specialist palliative care out of hours telephone advice in Ireland: a national survey3
Frailty and prognosis in lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis3
Deep continuous sedation at the patient’s request until death in a palliative care unit: retrospective study3
NIH stroke scale and unfavourable outcomes in acute ischaemic stroke: retrospective study3
Advanced heart failure patients and family caregivers health and function: randomised controlled pilot trial of online dignity therapy3
Breakthrough cancer pain management: mixed-methods study of health care professionals3
Desire for hastened death in advanced cancer: cross-sectional study in China3
Proxy medical decision-making: national survey3
Lidocaine infusion for malignant visceral pain: case report3
Non-medical devices for chronic breathlessness: use, barriers and facilitators for patients, carers and clinicians - a scoping review3
Non-invasive advanced respiratory support in end-of-life care and symptom management: systematic review3
The Supportive Care sCore (SCC): trigger alert validation study in solid tumours3
Palliative surgery in metastatic gastric cancer: analysis (2007–2021)3
Subcutaneous proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in palliative medicine3
Evaluation of a nature-based virtual reality intervention to support hospice caregivers: a pilot feasibility study3
Palliative care and COVID-19: a bibliometric analysis3
Drug dependence epidemiology in palliative care medicinal cannabis trials3
Pridinol for cancer-related myofascial pain3
Enhanced supportive care: prospective cohort study of oncology patients and caregivers3
Nutrition services during prostate cancer androgen deprivation therapy3
Assistive technology in palliative care: a statewide equipment programme3
Acute palliative care models: scoping review3
Methadone and neuropathic cancer pain subcomponents: a prospective cohort pilot study3
Methadone prescribed as an analgesic by a specialist palliative medicine team in an acute hospital inpatient setting: retrospective study3
Collaborative advance care planning in palliative care: a randomised controlled trial3
A tool for guiding goal-concordant medical recommendations in paediatric serious illness3
A good death: non-negotiable personal conditions for clinicians, healthcare administrators and support staff3
Low serum thyroid-stimulating hormone levels may be an early predictor of sepsis3
Anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in hospital staff: systematic review plus meta-analysis3
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