BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Article	Citations
Impact of dementia on informal care: a systematic review of family caregivers’ perceptions	93
Integration of palliative care into COVID-19 pandemic planning	85
Can video consultations replace face-to-face interviews? Palliative medicine and the Covid-19 pandemic: rapid review	63
Symptom burden and clinical profile of COVID-19 deaths: a rapid systematic review and evidence summary	51
Hospice care access inequalities: a systematic review and narrative synthesis	50
Development and validation of a machine learning-based prediction model for near-term in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19	36
Acupuncture for palliative cancer pain management: systematic review	35
Opioids for breathlessness: a narrative review	33
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic: online survey	30
Evaluation of current medical approaches for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Symptom clusters in patients receiving chemotherapy: A systematic review	29
Newly diagnosed cancer and the COVID-19 pandemic: tumour stage migration and higher early mortality	28
Advance care planning: the future	27
Systematic mixed-method review of barriers to end-of-life communication in the family context	26
Breast cancer nursing interventions and clinical effectiveness: a systematic review	26
Cardiorespiratory fitness in breast cancer survivors: a randomised controlled trial of home-based smartphone supported high intensity interval training	25
The patient-generated subjective global assessment is a promising screening tool for cancer cachexia	22
Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study	21
Anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in hospital staff: systematic review plus meta-analysis	21
Inappropriate end-of-life cancer care in a generalist and specialist palliative care model: a nationwide retrospective population-based observational study	21
Telehealth: rapid adoption in community palliative care due to COVID-19: patient and professional evaluation	21
How to communicate with families living in complete isolation	20
Asymptomatic COVID-19 infection: diagnosis, transmission, population characteristics	19
Chinese perspective on end-of-life communication: a systematic review	19
Coronavirus pandemic: compassionate communities and information technology	19

Healthcare trajectories and costs in the last year of life: a retrospective primary care and hospital analysis	19
Global palliative care research (2002-2020): bibliometric review and mapping analysis	19
Preferred and actual place of death in haematological malignancies: a report from the UK haematological malignancy research network	18
Central catheter-associated deep vein thrombosis in cancer: clinical course, prophylaxis, treatment	18
Global quality of life in breast cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Telenursing home care and COVID-19: a qualitative study	17
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: a claims data cross-sectional study of geographical variation	17
COVID-19 pandemic: changes in cancer admissions	17
Pandemic ICU triage challenge and medical ethics	17
Home parenteral nutrition versus artificial hydration in malnourished patients with cancer in palliative care: a prospective, cohort survival study	16
Early palliative care: the surprise question and the palliative care screening tool—better together	15
Facilitators and barriers to general practitioner and general practice nurse participation in end-of-life care: systematic review	15
Physician attitudes to voluntary assisted dying: a scoping review	15
Decision-making in palliative care: patient and family caregiver concordance and discordance—systematic review and narrative synthesis	15
Adult palliative care 2004–2030 population study: estimates and projections in Malaysia	15
What is the impact of clinically assisted hydration in the last days of life? A systematic literature review and narrative synthesis	15
What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis	15
Clinician responses to legal requests for hastened death: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research	15
End-of-life care in natural disasters including epidemics and pandemics: a systematic review	15
Exercise interventions in metastatic cancer disease: a literature review and a brief discussion on current and future perspectives	15
Efficacy and safety of pharmacological cachexia interventions: systematic review and network meta-analysis	14
End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death	14
Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool prognostic value in older hospitalised patients: a prospective multicentre study	14
Global and regional geographical prevalence of depression in gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Double-edged MAiD death family legacy: a qualitative descriptive study	14
Virtual reality in specialist palliative care: a feasibility study to enable clinical practice adoption	13
Efficacy of naloxegol on symptoms and quality of life related to opioid-induced constipation in patients with cancer: a 3-month follow-up analysis	13
Harmful consequences of COVID-19 fear in patients with cancer	13
Improved cancer-related fatigue in a randomised clinical trial: methylphenidate no better than placebo	13
Breaking bad news: tackling cultural dilemmas	13
Primary-level palliative care national capacity: Pallium Canada	12
Nutrition and physical activity: French intergroup clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO, ACHBT, AFC, SFP-APA, SFNCM, AF	12
Early palliative/supportive care in acute myeloid leukaemia allows low aggression end-of-life interventions: observational outpatient study	12
Colorectal cancer survivors’ quality of life: a qualitative study of unmet need	12
Cachexia is associated with depression, anxiety and quality of life in cancer patients	12
Virtual reality in hospice: improved patient well-being	12
Prognostic awareness in advanced cancer: an integrative literature review	12
Dignity therapy, psycho-spiritual well-being and quality of life in the terminally ill: systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Prognostic disclosure in oncology - current communication models: a scoping review	12
Research participation in palliative medicine—benefits and barriers for patients and families: rapid review and thematic synthesis	11
Healthcare use and costs in the last year of life: a national population data linkage study	11
Palliative care in critically ill COVID-19 patients: the early New York City experience	11
Opioids impair nivolumab outcomes: a retrospective propensity score analysis in non-small-cell lung cancer	11
Current collaboration between palliative care and neurology: a survey of clinicians in Europe	11
Distinct financial distress profiles in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery	11
Family carer needs in advanced disease: systematic review of reviews	10
Experiences of fathers of children with a life-limiting condition: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis	10
Meaning in life and quality of life: palliative care patients versus the general population	10
Advance care planning in nursing homes: new conversation and documentation tools	10
Serious Illness Conversations in advanced kidney disease: a mixed-methods implementation study	10

Findings and lessons learnt from early termination of a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial of video consultations in home-based palliative care	10
The wish to die and hastening death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A scoping review	10
Global, regional and national quality of life in patients with multiple sclerosis: a global systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Exercise intervention and sexual function in advanced prostate cancer: a randomised controlled trial	10
AI-based clinical decision-making systems in palliative medicine: ethical challenges	10
Action plans in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a qualitative study—‘I do what I can do’	10
Integrated palliative homecare in advanced dementia: reduced healthcare utilisation and costs	9
Effect of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool intervention (CSNAT-I) in the Danish specialised palliative care setting: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial	9
Duloxetine for prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Nutrition and physical activity professional education in gastrointestinal oncology: a national multidisciplinary survey	9
Early palliative care in haematological patients: a systematic literature review	9
How can existential or spiritual strengths be fostered in palliative care? An interpretative synthesis of recent literature	9
To be mortal is human: professional consensus around the need for more psychology in palliative care	9
Mindful gratitude journaling: psychological distress, quality of life and suffering in advanced cancer: a randomised controlled trial	9
Pulmonary referrals to specialist palliative medicine: a survey	9
Public knowledge and attitudes concerning palliative care	9
Ethical issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in patients with cancer: experience and organisations in a French comprehensive cancer centre	9
Randomised trial of a serious illness decision aid (Plan Well Guide) for patients and their substitute decision-makers to improve engagement in advance care planning	9
Impact of palliative care consult service in inpatient hospital setting: a systematic literature review	8
Wish to die and hasten death in palliative care: a cross-sectional study factor analysis	8
Symptom reduction in palliative care from single session mindful breathing: a randomised controlled trial	8
Telemedicine for outpatient palliative care during COVID-19 pandemics: a longitudinal study	8
mHOMR: a prospective observational study of an automated mortality prediction model to identify patients with unmet palliative needs	8
Upside down solutions: palliative care and COVID-19	8
General practice nurses and physicians and end of life: a systematic review of models of care	8
Subcutaneous furosemide in advanced heart failure: service improvement project	8
Informal caregivers and advance care planning: systematic review with qualitative meta-synthesis	8
Limitations in health professionals’ knowledge of end-of-life law: a cross-sectional survey	8
Swallowing functional outcomes and nutritional status in head and neck cancer radiotherapy: longitudinal study	8
Prognosis palliative care study, palliative prognostic index, palliative prognostic score and objective prognostic score in advanced cancer: a prospective comparison	8
Androgen deprivation therapy and radiation for prostate cancer—cognitive impairment, sleep, symptom burden: a prospective study	8
NECPAL prognostic tool: a palliative medicine retrospective cohort study	8
Dysphagia screening post-stroke: systematic review	7
Nutritional status and symptom burden in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: results of the dietetic assessment and intervention in lung cancer (DAIL) trial	7
Factors associated with unscheduled care use by cancer decedents: a systematic review with narrative synthesis	7
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)-enhanced communication skills: development and evaluation of a novel training programme	7
Serious Illness Care Programme—contextual factors and implementation strategies: a qualitative study	7
Deaths in dementia: a scoping review of prognostic variables	7
Unmet spiritual needs in palliative care: psychometrics of a screening checklist	7
Advance care planning in the community: factors of influence	7
Virtual visits in palliative care: about time or against the grain?	7
The impact of routine Edmonton symptom assessment system use on receiving palliative care services: results of a population-based retrospective-matched cohort analysis	7
Distress Thermometer in breast cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Efficacy and safety of subcutaneous clonidine for refractory symptoms in palliative medicine: a retrospective study	7
Severe mental illness and palliative care: patient semistructured interviews	7
Occupational therapy and physiotherapy interventions in palliative care: a cross-sectional study of patient-reported needs	7
Advance care planning and caregiver outcomes: intervention efficacy – systematic review	7
Dealing with cultural diversity in palliative care	7
Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis	7
‘Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) improves renal nurses’ confidence in recognising patients approaching end of life’	6
Early palliative intervention: effects on patient care satisfaction in advanced cancer	6
Spiritual well-being, dignity-related distress and demoralisation at the end of life-effects of dignity therapy: a randomised controlled trial	6
Family meetings in paediatric palliative care: an integrative review	6
Home parenteral nutrition in neuroendocrine tumour intestinal failure: improved quality of life and longevity	6
Chemotherapy decision-making in advanced lung cancer: a prospective qualitative study	6
How Leaders, Teams and Organisations can prevent Burnout and build Resilience: a thematic analysis’	6
Designing the physical environment for inpatient palliative care: a narrative review	6
Cancer-related fatigue—pharmacological interventions: systematic review and network meta-analysis	6
Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis—health-related quality of life: systematic review plus meta-analysis	6
Furosemide in end-stage heart failure: community subcutaneous infusions	6
Interstitial lung disease and specialist palliative care access: a healthcare professionals survey	6
Administration of label and off-label drugs by the subcutaneous route in palliative care: an observational cohort study	6
Naltrexone for cholestatic itch: a systematic review	6
Specialised outpatient paediatric palliative care team–parent collaboration: narrative interviews with parents	6
Frailty and palliative care	6
End-of-life care for older first-generation migrants: a scoping review	6
Cancer survivors 75 years and older: physical, emotional and practical needs	6
Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation—clinical outcomes: impact of leg muscle strength	6
Prospective oversight and approval of assisted dying cases in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative study of doctors’ perspectives	6
Patient awareness of palliative care: systematic review	6
Patient card games in palliative care: integrative review	6
Cancer survivors and neurotoxic chemotherapy: hearing loss and tinnitus	6
Depression and complicated grief in bereaved caregivers in cardiovascular diseases: prevalence and determinants	6
Mechanical ventilation withdrawal in motor neuron disease: an evaluation of practice	5
Specialist palliative care classification: typology development	5
Palliative care environments for patient, family and staff well-being: an ethnographic study of non-standard design	5
Volunteers in palliative care: A healthcare system-wide cross-sectional survey	5
Clinical nurse specialists and survival in patients with cancer: the UK National Cancer Experience Survey	5
Influence of individual, illness and environmental factors on place of death among people with neurodegenerative diseases: a retrospective, observational, comparative cohort study	5
Telemedicine family meetings in palliative care: etiquette	5

Sarcopenia and anthracycline cardiotoxicity in patients with cancer	5
Physician emotional experience of communication and decision making with end-of-life patients: qualitative studies systematic review	5
Therapeutic thoracentesis symptoms and activity: a qualitative study	5
Finalising the administration of co-SSPedi, a dyad approach to symptom screening for paediatric patients receiving cancer treatments	5
Palliative versus hospice care in patients with cancer: a systematic review	5
Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers	5
Patient–caregiver dyads advance care plan value discussions: randomised controlled cancer trial of video decision support tool	5
Mapping palliative care provision in European prisons: an EAPC Task Force Survey	5
Assisted dying request assessments by trained consultants: changes in practice and quality - Repeated cross-sectional surveys (2008–2019)	5
Burnout in physicians: a survey of the Danish society for palliative medicine	5
Quality of life support in advanced cancer—web and technological interventions: systematic review and narrative synthesis	5
The Surprise Question	5
Virtual learning environment (‘Ivy Street’) for palliative medicine education: student and facilitator evaluation	5
Oncology to specialised palliative home care systematic transition: the Domus randomised trial	5
Healthcare interpreters and difficult conversations: a survey	5
Death from cancer: frequent unscheduled care	5
Group-led creative writing and behavioural health in cancer: a randomised clinical trial	5
Best supportive care and prognosis: advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma	5
Early palliative care and quality of dying and death in patients with advanced cancer	5
Antibiotic use towards the end of life: development of good practice recommendations	5
Physicians’ views on the usefulness and feasibility of identifying and disclosing patients’ last phase of life: a focus group study	5
Short-term efficacy of home-based heart rate variability biofeedback on sleep disturbance in patients with incurable cancer: a randomised open-label study	5
Seizures in palliative medicine: brivaracetam	5
Symptom prevalence and severity in palliative cancer medicine	5
COVID-19 deaths in care homes: primary care management study	5
Performance status and survival in cancer patients undergoing palliative care: retrospective study	5
Emergency department presentations in palliative care patients: a retrospective cohort study	5
Exploring the reasons cancer survivors do not seek help for their concerns: a descriptive content analysis	5
Community access to palliative care medicines—patient and professional experience: systematic review and narrative synthesis	5
SPIDER as a framework to formulate eligibility criteria in qualitative systematic reviews	5
Primary palliative care integrated model in paediatric ICU: an international cross-sectional study	5
Neutropenic versus regular diet for acute leukaemia induction chemotherapy: randomised controlled trial	5
The ‘Surprise question’ in heart failure: a prospective cohort study	5
Advance care planning participation by people with dementia: a cross-sectional survey and medical record audit	5
Parental terminal cancer and dependent children: a systematic review	5
Supportive and palliative care in the age of deferred death: primary care’s central role	5
Strengthening palliative care in the hospital setting: a codesign study	5
Unplanned hospitalisations in older people: illness trajectories in the last year of life	5
Symptoms of advanced cancer in palliative medicine: a longitudinal study	5
Advance directives and real-world end-of-life clinical practice: a case–control study	5
Does acupressure help reduce nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients? A double blind randomised controlled trial	5
Duration of palliative care involvement and cancer care aggressiveness near the end of life	4
Multidisciplinary team meetings in palliative care: an ethnographic study	4
Effects of specialised nutritional interventions in patients with incurable cancer: a systematic review	4
Peripheral nerve blocks in advanced cancer pain: retrospective case series	4
Symptom clusters in oncology outpatients: stability and consistency across a cycle of chemotherapy	4
Antimicrobial use at the end of life: a scoping review	4
Incompatible: end-of-life care and health economics	4
Prognostic disclosure and quality of life in palliative care: a systematic review	4
Palliative sedation outside a palliative care unit	4
Sevoflurane topical analgesia for intractable pain with suicidal ideation	4
Specialist palliative cancer care in acute hospitals and place of death: a population study	4
COVID-19 emergency and palliative medicine: an intervention model’	4
Patient and caregiver experiences with advanced cancer care: a qualitative study informing the development of an early palliative care pathway	4
Core elements of serious illness conversations: an integrative systematic review	4
What do we know about patients’ perspectives and expectations relating to palliative and end-of-life care in advanced liver disease? A systematic review of qualitative literature using ENTREQ guidelin	4
Parkinson’s disease – palliative care needs assessment tool: adaptation and psychometric testing	4
Addition of aprepitant improves acute emesis control in children and adolescents receiving induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia: a randomised, open-label trial	4
Cross-sectional survey of the wish to die among palliative patients in Spain: one phenomenon, different experiences	4
Nasal fentanyl alone plus buccal midazolam: an open-label, randomised, controlled feasibility study in the dying	4
Palliative care integration indicators: an European regional analysis	4
Grief and bereavement of family and friends around medical assistance in dying: scoping review	4
Anxiety and depression prevalence in digestive cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Access for Cancer Caregivers to Education and Support for Shared Decision Making (ACCESS) intervention: a cluster cross-over randomised clinical trial	4
Psychological well-being of hospice staff: systematic review	4
Feasibility and effectiveness of tools that support communication and decision making in life-prolonging treatments for patients in hospital: a systematic review	4
Clinical decision support system to optimise symptom management in palliative medicine: focus group study	4
Spirituality and religiosity in a palliative medicine population: mixed-methods study	4
Global health-related quality of life in schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Dexmedetomidine for dyspnoea	4
Seeking Excellence in End of Life Care UK (SEECare UK): a UK multi-centred service evaluation	4
Pharmacogenomics-guided opioid management	4
Percutaneous cervical cordotomy for cancer-related pain: prospective multimodal outcomes evaluation	4
Increased legalisation of medical assistance in dying: relationship to palliative care	4
Acupuncture for postprostatectomy incontinence: a systematic review	4
Hospital end-of-life care: families’ free-text notes	4
‘Advance care planning, general practitioners and patients: a phase II cluster-randomised controlled trial in chronic life-limiting illness’	4
Provision of palliative care in National Cancer Grid treatment centres in India: a cross-sectional gap analysis survey	4
The ACS-TQIP palliative care guidelines at two level I trauma centres: a prospective study of patient and caregiver satisfaction	4
Burnout in Palliative Care - Difficult Cases: Qualitative Study	4
Cancer palliative care referral: patients’ and family caregivers’ perspectives – a systematic review	4
Hospice delivery models and survival differences in the terminally ill: a large cohort study	4
Haematological cancer versus solid tumour end-of-life care: a longitudinal data analysis	4
Palliative care for homeless and vulnerably housed people: scoping review and thematic synthesis	4
Coping in patients with pancreatic cancer: a scoping review and narrative synthesis	4
Unmet care needs of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives: multicentre observational study	4
Cancer centre supportive oncology service: health economic evaluation	4
Physiotherapy in palliative medicine: patient and caregiver wellness	4
Lung cancer deaths (England 2001–2017)—comorbidities: a national population-based analysis	4
Methadone and neuropathic cancer pain subcomponents: a prospective cohort pilot study	4
‘Palliative care education in nursing homes: a qualitative evaluation of telementoring	4
Paediatric end-of-life care – symptoms and problems: parent assessment	4
Pegfilgrastim safety and efficacy on the last chemotherapy day versus the next: systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Inadequate completion of advance care directives by individuals with dementia: national audit of health and aged care facilities	4
The carbon footprint of a hospice	3