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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

This cluster of papers focuses on the integration of palliative care into end-of-life treatment, including advance care planning, family perspectives, communication strategies, prognostic disclosure, ICU care, ethical considerations, and health care costs. It explores the impact of early palliative care, patient and caregiver outcomes, and the quality of dying and death.

158,599 works

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Most cited

  1. Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Jennifer S. Temel, Joseph A. Greer, Alona Muzikansky, Emily R. Gallagher · 2010 · New England Journal of Medicine · 7,527 citations

  2. Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation Process for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Measures: Report of the ISPOR Task Force for Translation and Cultural Adaptation

    D Wild, Alyson Grove, Mona Martin, Sonya Eremenco · 2005 · Value in Health · 5,565 citations

  3. Associations Between End-of-Life Discussions, Patient Mental Health, Medical Care Near Death, and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment

    Alexi A. Wright · 2008 · JAMA · 2,828 citations

  4. A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators

    Alfred F. Connors, Neal V. Dawson, Norman A. Desbiens, W. J. Fulkerson · 1995 · JAMA · 2,779 citations

  5. The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS): A Simple Method for the Assessment of Palliative Care Patients

    Éduardo Bruera, Norma Kuehn, Melvin J. Miller, Pal Selmser · 1991 · Journal of Palliative Care · 2,718 citations

  6. Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients, Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers

    Karen E. Steinhauser · 2000 · JAMA · 2,538 citations

Most recent

  1. Evaluating undergraduate palliative care education: changes in nursing students’ attitudes toward end-of-life care following a curriculum-based programme

    Wiktor Karasiewicz, Michał Chojnicki, Krystyna Jaracz, Beata Kaczmarek · 2026 · BMC Palliative Care · 0 citations

  2. Structurally conditioned autonomy and assisted dying: health equity, vulnerability, and end-of-life decision-making

    Otavio de Marco Dala Rosa · 2026 · BMC Medical Ethics · 0 citations

  3. Enhancing end-of-life education for new graduates

    Christina McElroy, Rachel Butler, Constance Cozens, Joy Elwell · 2026 · Journal of Nursing Education and Practice · 0 citations

  4. Evasiveness in Everyday Hospital Palliative Care Practice: A Focused Ethnography

    Carolien van Leussen, Evelien Kuip, Renske Kruizinga, Els van Wijngaarden · 2026 · Journal of Clinical Nursing · 0 citations

  5. Attitude towards Euthanasia among Nurses in a Tertiary Level Hospital of Biratnagar, Nepal

    Kriti Khokar, Saraswati Basnet · 2026 · Journal of Aadhikavi. · 0 citations

  6. Individualized approach to palliative care integration for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

    Carley Mitchell, Roshni S. Kailar, Melinda L. Hsu · 2026 · Frontiers in Medicine · 0 citations

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