Palliative Care

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "It Is Like Heart Failure. It Is Chronic … and It Will Kill You": A Qualitative Analysis of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians. 
  • "No one dies of old age": implications for research, practice, and policy. 
  • "Not the 'grim reaper service'": an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure. 
  • "Shouldn't You Spend Your Time Curing Cancer or Something?" Why an African American Female Physician Chose a Career in Palliative Care. 
  • "Who Does What?" Ensuring High-Quality and Coordinated Palliative Care With Our Oncology Colleagues. 
  • 5-Fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide, and vincristine for adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • A Blue Ocean Strategy for Palliative Care: Focus on Family Caregivers. 
  • A Cohort Study of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Receiving Active Cancer Therapy in the Last Six Months of Life. 
  • A Multicenter Qualitative Analysis of Medical Student Narratives After a Palliative Care Elective. 
  • A New Frontier for Palliative Care: The Need to Train Palliative-Oncology Subspecialists. 
  • A Person-Centered, Registry-Based Learning Health System for Palliative Care: A Path to Coproducing Better Outcomes, Experience, Value, and Science. 
  • A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase II Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Monotherapy Ontuxizumab (MORAb-004) Plus Best Supportive Care in Patients with Chemorefractory Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. 
  • A Research Agenda for the Question Prompt List in Outpatient Palliative Care. 
  • A Review of Race and Ethnicity in Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research: Representation Matters. 
  • A Scientific Autobiography of an Early Career Physician: At the Intersection of Geriatrics, Psychiatry, Palliative Care and Bluegrass Banjo. 
  • A Survey to Evaluate Facilitators and Barriers to Quality Measurement and Improvement: Adapting Tools for Implementation Research in Palliative Care Programs. 
  • A Systems Approach to Improving Care for All Bereaved Families. 
  • A Visual Tool to Help Develop a Statistical Analysis Plan for Randomized Trials in Palliative Care. 
  • A brief relaxation intervention for pain delivered by palliative care physicians: A pilot study. 
  • A central role for palliative care in an influenza pandemic. 
  • A clinical decision and economic analysis model of cancer pain management. 
  • A feasible and acceptable multicultural psychosocial intervention targeting symptom management in the context of advanced breast cancer. 
  • A like sufferer. 
  • A newborn with congenital complete atrioventricular block, lissencephaly, and skeletal abnormalities: a case of suspected cytomegalovirus infection. 
  • A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer. 
  • A quantitative analysis of palliative care decisions in acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. 
  • A randomized, double-blind, phase II, exploratory trial evaluating the palliative benefit of either continuing pamidronate or switching to zoledronic acid in patients with high-risk bone metastases from breast cancer. 
  • A review of quality of care evaluation for the palliation of dyspnea. 
  • A scoping review of palliative care outcome measures in interstitial lung disease. 
  • A stakeholder-driven approach to improve the informed consent process for palliative chemotherapy. 
  • A strategy to advance the evidence base in palliative medicine: formation of a palliative care research cooperative group. 
  • AABIP Evidence-informed Guidelines and Expert Panel Report for the Management of Indwelling Pleural Catheters. 
  • ACO Serious Illness Care: Survey And Case Studies Depict Current Challenges And Future Opportunities. 
  • Abdominal leiomyosarcoma: aggressive management. 
  • Accountable and Transparent Palliative Quality Measures Will Improve Care. 
  • Acute Leukemia Patients' Needs: Qualitative Findings and Opportunities for Early Palliative Care. 
  • Addressing Palliative Care Clinician Burnout in Organizations: A Workforce Necessity, an Ethical Imperative. 
  • Addressing Patient Emotional and Existential Needs During Serious Illness: Results of the Outlook Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Adenocarcinoma of the prostate: an expensive way to die. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Items When Caring for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies Versus Solid Tumors. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Measures Using Point-of-Care Data Collection Across Diverse Clinical Settings. 
  • Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology, Version 2.2018, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • Adolescent and young adult oncology. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology. 
  • Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care Specialists in Malignant Hematology and Stem-Cell Transplantation: On Why It Takes A Village. 
  • Advance care planning with patients on hemodialysis: an implementation study. 
  • Advanced Analytics as an Accelerator for Palliative Care and Oncology Integration. 
  • Advanced heart failure patients supported with ambulatory inotropic therapy: What defines success of therapy? 
  • Advanced therapies for end-stage heart failure. 
  • Advancing Palliative Care Integration in Hematology: Building Upon Existing Evidence. 
  • African Americans With Advanced Heart Failure Are More Likely to Die in a Health Care Facility Than at Home or in Hospice: An Analysis From the PAL-HF Trial. 
  • Aggressiveness of care following intracerebral hemorrhage in women and men. 
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: current practice and future treatments. 
  • An economic evaluation of prolonged mechanical ventilation. 
  • Analyzing phase III studies in hospice/palliative care. a solution that sits between intention-to-treat and per protocol analyses: the palliative-modified ITT analysis. 
  • Anesthesia-Guided Palliative Care in the Perioperative Surgical Home Model. 
  • Anticholinergic Drug Burden in Noncancer Versus Cancer Patients Near the End of Life. 
  • Antidepressant medication use in palliative care. 
  • Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Two Seriously Medically Ill Populations and Their Family Caregivers: A Comparison and Clinical Implications. 
  • Applying motivational interviewing techniques to palliative care communication. 
  • Asian migrants navigating New Zealand primary care: a qualitative study. 
  • Assessing Emotional Suffering in Palliative Care: Use of a Structured Note Template to Improve Documentation. 
  • Assessment of Changes in Symptoms Is Feasible and Prognostic in the Last Weeks of Life: An International Multicenter Cohort Study. 
  • Assessment of Clinical Palliative Care Trigger Status vs Actual Needs Among Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Association Between Digoxin Use and Cardiac Function in Infants With Single-Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease During the Interstage Period. 
  • Associations of Patient Characteristics and Care Setting with Complexity of Specialty Palliative Care Visits. 
  • Atrial septostomy as a bridge to lung transplantation in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Author Response to Reader's Comments to Fitzgerald Jones et al., Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0502). 
  • Authors' reply to Dirksen et al. 
  • Awareness and Utilization of Palliative Care Among Advanced Cancer Patients in Asia. 
  • Best supportive care in clinical trials: review of the inconsistency in control arm design. 
  • Better Palliative Care for All: Improving the Lived Experience With Cancer. 
  • Better Together: The Making and Maturation of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group. 
  • Better Together: The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group as a Model for Increasing Equity in the Science of Hospice and Palliative Care. 
  • Biventricular Conversion in the Borderline Hypoplastic Heart. 
  • Building Resilience for Palliative Care Clinicians: An Approach to Burnout Prevention Based on Individual Skills and Workplace Factors. 
  • Building the palliative care evidence base: Lessons from a randomized controlled trial of oxygen vs room air for refractory dyspnea. 
  • COMPASS: A Pilot Trial of an Early Palliative Care Intervention for Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease. 
  • Carcinoid and chylous ascites: an unusual association. 
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass Strategy for a Cyanotic Child With Hemoglobin SC Disease. 
  • Caring for the suffering: meeting the Ebola crisis responsibly. 
  • Case for Dual Training in Medical Oncology and Palliative Care. 
  • Center variation and outcomes associated with delayed sternal closure after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Characteristics and Outcomes of Dementia Patients Who Receive Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation. 
  • Characteristics and Trends Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Referred to Palliative Care. 
  • Characteristics of Advance Care Planning in Patients With Cancer Referred to Palliative Care. 
  • Characteristics of palliative care consultation at an academic level one trauma center. 
  • Characterizing the Hospice and Palliative Care Workforce in the U.S.: Clinician Demographics and Professional Responsibilities. 
  • Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life. 
  • Chemotherapy use and patient treatment preferences in advanced colorectal cancer: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Cholangiocarcinoma. Role of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography in determination of resectability. 
  • Chronic critical illness: the growing challenge to health care. 
  • Chylothorax: a rare complication of metastatic prostatic carcinoma. 
  • Clinical outcomes of palliative surgery including a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt in infants with cyanotic congenital heart disease: does aspirin make a difference? 
  • Clinician End-of-Life Experiences With Pediatric Muslim Patients at a US Quaternary Care Center. 
  • Clinician Perspectives Guiding Approach to Comprehensiveness of Palliative Care Assessment. 
  • Closed mitral valvotomy for mitral restenosis: experience in 113 consecutive cases. 
  • Collecting data on quality is feasible in community-based palliative care. 
  • Commentary: Cavopulmonary assist: Closing in on the white whale of single-ventricle palliation. 
  • Commentary: The over/under is set at 17? Let's not gamble with discharge after the Norwood operation. 
  • Common Data Elements for Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms and Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Recommendations from the Working Group on Hospital Course and Acute Therapies-Proposal of a Multidisciplinary Research Group. 
  • Communicating With Patients--The Other Side of the Conversation. 
  • Communication and Cultural Sensitivity for Families and Children With Life-Limiting Diseases: An Informed Decision-Making Ethical Case in Community-Based Palliative Care. 
  • Communication around palliative care principles and advance care planning between oncologists, children with advancing cancer and families. 
  • Community-based palliative care: the natural evolution for palliative care delivery in the U.S. 
  • Comparing Palliative Care Knowledge in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas of the United States: Results from a National Survey. 
  • Comparing Specialty and Primary Palliative Care Interventions: Analysis of a Systematic Review. 
  • Comparing Unmet Needs to Optimize Quality: Characterizing Inpatient and Outpatient Palliative Care Populations. 
  • Comparing the Palliative Care Needs of Patients With Hematologic and Solid Malignancies. 
  • Comparing the Palliative Care Needs of Those With Cancer to Those With Common Non-Cancer Serious Illness. 
  • Comparing unmet needs between community-based palliative care patients with heart failure and patients with cancer. 
  • Compassion in a Crisis: The Role of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Concerns underlying treatment preferences of advanced cancer patients with children. 
  • Conformance with supportive care quality measures is associated with better quality of life in patients with cancer receiving palliative care. 
  • Consensus statement on palliative lung radiotherapy: third international consensus workshop on palliative radiotherapy and symptom control. 
  • Consensus-based standards for best supportive care in clinical trials in advanced cancer. 
  • Considerations in reporting palliative care clinical trials: standardizing information reported and authorship practices. 
  • Continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil as first-line therapy for metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Coordinating assessment of spiritual needs: a cross-walk of narrative and psychometric assessment tools used in palliative care. 
  • Coping Skills Practice and Symptom Change: A Secondary Analysis of a Pilot Telephone Symptom Management Intervention for Lung Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers. 
  • Copy Number Variants of Undetermined Significance Are Not Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. 
  • Correlation between minute carbon dioxide elimination and pulmonary blood flow in single-ventricle patients after stage 1 palliation and 2-ventricle patients with intracardiac shunts: A pilot study. 
  • Cost and utilization outcomes of patients receiving hospital-based palliative care consultation. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of early palliative care intervention in recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. 
  • Cryosurgical debulking of unresectable liver metastases for palliation of carcinoid syndrome. 
  • Current Practices in the Timing of Stage 2 Palliation. 
  • Cystic duct patency in malignant obstructive jaundice. An ERCP-based study relevant to the role of laparoscopic cholecystojejunostomy. 
  • Death of outrage over talking about dying. 
  • Decitabine improves patient outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes: results of a phase III randomized study. 
  • Defining High-Quality Palliative Care in Oncology Practice: An American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Guidance Statement. 
  • Defining best supportive care. 
  • Defining the Value Proposition for Specialist Palliative Care Delivered in Intensive Care Units. 
  • Delivery catheter entrapment during deployment of expandable metal stents. 
  • Delivery of Community-Based Palliative Care: Findings from a Time and Motion Study. 
  • Delivery strategies to optimize resource utilization and performance status for patients with advanced life-limiting illness: results from the "palliative care trial" [ISRCTN 81117481]. 
  • Delphi Method to Develop a Palliative Care Tool for Children and Families in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Demonstration of a sustainable community-based model of care across the palliative care continuum. 
  • Designing Psychosocial Intervention Pilot Studies: A Tutorial for Palliative Care Investigators. 
  • Determining the Association Between End-of-Life Care Resources and Patient Outcomes in Pennsylvania ICUs. 
  • Developing a Path to Improve Cultural Competency in Islam Among Palliative Care Professionals. 
  • Developing a Research Agenda for Integrating Palliative Care into Critical Care and Pulmonary Practice To Improve Patient and Family Outcomes. 
  • Developing the Future End-of-Life Health Care Workforce: Lessons Learned From a Survey of Advanced Health Professions Students. 
  • Developing the evidence base for palliative care: formation of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative and its first trial. 
  • Development of a Standardized Set of Patient-centered Outcomes for Advanced Prostate Cancer: An International Effort for a Unified Approach. 
  • Development of the Quality Data Collection Tool for Prospective Quality Assessment and Reporting in Palliative Care. 
  • Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of stage-III peripheral squamous cell carcinoma of right upper lung. 
  • Differences between patients with cardiovascular disease and cancer referred for palliative care. 
  • Differences in understanding of specialist palliative care amongst service providers and commissioners in South London. 
  • Direct Engagement With Communities and Interprofessional Learning to Factor Culture Into End-of-Life Health Care Delivery. 
  • Discussing the Evidence for Upstream Palliative Care in Improving Outcomes in Advanced Cancer. 
  • Disparities in end-of-life outcomes among advanced cancer patients in Sri Lanka: Results from the APPROACH study. 
  • Do palliative care interventions reduce emergency department visits among patients with cancer at the end of life? A systematic review. 
  • Do preparation and life completion discussions improve functioning and quality of life in seriously ill patients? Pilot randomized control trial. 
  • Does change in health-related quality of life score predict survival? Analysis of EORTC 08975 lung cancer trial. 
  • Does health-related quality of life improve for advanced pancreatic cancer patients who respond to gemcitabine? Analysis of a randomized phase III trial of the cancer and leukemia group B (CALGB 80303). 
  • Doppler flow patterns in the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery shunt and neo-aorta in infants with single right ventricle anomalies: impact on outcome after initial staged palliations. 
  • Durable palliation of breast cancer chest wall recurrence with radiation therapy, hyperthermia, and chemotherapy. 
  • Dyspnea review for the palliative care professional: assessment, burdens, and etiologies. 
  • Dyspnea review for the palliative care professional: treatment goals and therapeutic options. 
  • ESO-ESMO 2nd international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer (ABC2). 
  • Early Palliative Care Consultation in the Medical ICU: A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial. 
  • Early Palliative Care Services and End-of-Life Care in Medicare Beneficiaries with Hematologic Malignancies: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • Early Palliative Care for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: Is It Really so Difficult to Achieve? 
  • Early integration of palliative care into the care of patients with cancer. 
  • Easing the Journey-an Updated Review of Palliative Care for the Patient with High-Grade Glioma. 
  • Effect of Inpatient Palliative Care During Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant on Psychological Distress 6 Months After Transplant: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Inpatient Palliative Care on Quality of Life 2 Weeks After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Palliative Care-Led Meetings for Families of Patients With Chronic Critical Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of an Early Palliative Care Telehealth Intervention vs Usual Care on Patients With Heart Failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of palliative oxygen versus room air in relief of breathlessness in patients with refractory dyspnoea: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effect of repair strategy on hospital cost for infants with tetralogy of Fallot. 
  • Effectiveness of Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care for Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effects of cabozantinib on pain and narcotic use in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from a phase 2 nonrandomized expansion cohort. 
  • Embolization of metastatic spinal tumors. 
  • Emerging Models of Providing Oncology Palliative Care. 
  • Empathic Communication in Specialty Palliative Care Encounters: An Analysis of Opportunities and Responses. 
  • End of life experiences of patients with advanced cancer in Myanmar: Results from the APPROACH study. 
  • End-of-Life Care, Palliative Care Consultation, and Palliative Care Referral in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review. 
  • End-of-life Heart Failure Care in the United States. 
  • End-of-life care at an academic medical center: are attending physicians, house staff, nurses, and bereaved family members equally satisfied? Implications for palliative care. 
  • End-of-life care in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • End-of-life care in nursing home settings: do race or age matter? 
  • Endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer. 
  • Endoscopic palliation of a biliocutaneous fistula with expandable metal stents. 
  • Engaging patients and families to create a feasible clinical trial integrating palliative and heart failure care: results of the ENABLE CHF-PC pilot clinical trial. 
  • Enrollment and events of hospice patients with heart failure vs. cancer. 
  • Epidemiology of cardiorenal syndrome. 
  • Epidural morphine treatment of pain in Guillain-Barré syndrome. 
  • Escape from tolerance in the human X-linked autoimmunity-allergic disregulation syndrome and the Scurfy mouse. 
  • Esophageal and esophagogastric junction cancers. 
  • Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice. 
  • Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telehealth Program in a Rural Palliative Care Population: TapCloud for Palliative Care. 
  • Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Improve Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation Processes. 
  • Evaluation of a Virtual Learning Collaborative to Integrate Palliative Care Into Routine Oncology Practice. 
  • Evaluation of the Measuring and Improving Quality in Palliative Care Survey. 
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of UK community pharmacists' interventions in community palliative care. 
  • Evidence-based Management of Cancer Pain. 
  • Evolving the Palliative Care Workforce to Provide Responsive, Serious Illness Care. 
  • Examining potential gaps in supportive medication use for US and foreign-born Hispanic women with breast cancer. 
  • Exploring the vagueness of Religion & Spirituality in complex pediatric decision-making: a qualitative study. 
  • Facilitating palliative care referrals in the intensive care unit: a pilot project. 
  • Feasibility and Acceptability of a Best Supportive Care Checklist among Clinicians. 
  • Feasibility of Using Communication Coaching to Teach Palliative Care Clinicians Motivational Interviewing. 
  • Feasibility of using algorithm-based clinical decision support for symptom assessment and management in lung cancer. 
  • Feeding dysfunction in children with single ventricle following staged palliation. 
  • Feeling Heard and Understood: A Patient-Reported Quality Measure for the Inpatient Palliative Care Setting. 
  • Fibrosarcoma of the heart metastatic to the brain. 
  • Finding your way through EOL challenges in the ICU using Adaptive Leadership behaviours: A qualitative descriptive case study. 
  • From Alleviating Suffering to Avoiding Addiction: A Call to Action to Evaluate and Mitigate Risk in Outpatient Specialty Palliative Care. 
  • Future of the Palliative Care Workforce: Preview to an Impending Crisis. 
  • Gastrointestinal symptoms in cancer patients with advanced disease: new methodologies, insights, and a proposed approach. 
  • Geriatric emergency department guidelines. 
  • Getting to proven: evaluating quality across all of palliative care. 
  • Global Survey of Outcomes of Neurocritical Care Patients: Analysis of the PRINCE Study Part 2. 
  • Global reluctance to practice evidence-based medicine continues in the treatment of uncomplicated painful bone metastases despite level 1 evidence and practice guidelines. 
  • Gordon's first law. 
  • Hand metastasis from melanoma: a case study. 
  • Health Care Access Measures and Palliative Care Use by Race/Ethnicity among Metastatic Gynecological Cancer Patients in the United States. 
  • Health-related quality of life and its socio-economic and cultural predictors among advanced cancer patients: evidence from the APPROACH cross-sectional survey in Hyderabad-India. 
  • Healthcare Cost Trajectories in the Last 2 Years of Life Among Patients With a Solid Metastatic Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Helping the Demand Find the Supply: Messaging the Value of Specialty Palliative Care Directly to Those With Serious Illnesses. 
  • Hemato-oncology and palliative care teams: is it time for an integrated approach to patient care? 
  • Hilar cholangiocarcinoma. 
  • Home is Where the Heart Is: Interstage Home Monitoring in Infants With Single-Ventricle Heart Disease. 
  • Hope, Phase I Trials, and Palliative Care: So You're Telling Me There's a Chance? 
  • Hoping for the best and preparing for the worst: a forgotten maxim in the immunotherapy era? 
  • Hospital-Based Palliative Care with Medicare Claims: Evidence From Colorado. 
  • Hospital-based palliative care units: answering a growing need. 
  • How Medicine Has Changed the End of Life for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Hybrid Palliation: Outcomes After the Comprehensive Stage 2 Procedure. 
  • Identification of Patient-Reported Outcome Phenotypes Among Oncology Patients With Palliative Care Needs. 
  • Identifying Palliative Care Champions to Promote High-Quality Care to Those with Serious Illness. 
  • Identifying subtypes of HIV/AIDS-related symptoms in China using latent profile analysis and symptom networks. 
  • Identifying, recruiting, and retaining seriously-ill patients and their caregivers in longitudinal research. 
  • Image-guided percutaneous thermal ablation for the palliative treatment of chest wall masses. 
  • Image-guided procedures for intensity-modulated spinal radiosurgery. Technical note. 
  • Impact of Early Palliative Care on End-of-Life Outcomes in Hematologic Malignancies. 
  • Impact of a Hematologic Malignancy Diagnosis and Treatment on Patients and Their Family Caregivers. 
  • Impact of a Palliative Care Education Module in Patients With Heart Failure. 
  • Impact of a palliative care program on end-of-life care in a neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Impact of a pediatric quality of life program on providers' moral distress. 
  • Implementing the Condensed Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale on an Inpatient Oncology Unit. 
  • Improved palliation of cerebral metastases in epithelial ovarian cancer using a combined modality approach including radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. 
  • Improving ICU-Based Palliative Care Delivery: A Multicenter, Multidisciplinary Survey of Critical Care Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs. 
  • Improving Outcomes Measurement in Palliative Care: The Lasting Impact of Randy Curtis and his Collaborators. 
  • Improving Quality of Care for Seriously Ill Patients: Opportunities for Hospitalists. 
  • Improving end-of-life care for patients with leukemia: is inpatient death the right measure? 
  • Improving processes of hospital care during the last hours of life. 
  • Improving racial disparities in unmet palliative care needs among intensive care unit family members with a needs-targeted app intervention: The ICUconnect randomized clinical trial. 
  • Improving the Quality of Palliative Care Through National and Regional Collaboration Efforts. 
  • Improving the end-of-life experience in Singapore: building capacity in palliative care education and research. 
  • Improving the management of dyspnea in the community using rapid learning approaches. 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • In the clinic. Palliative care. 
  • Incorporating Shared Decision Making and Palliative Care Into Cardiogenic Shock Pathways. 
  • Index Symptoms and Prognosis Awareness of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer: A Multi-Site Palliative Care Collaborative. 
  • Infant and child deaths in acute care settings: implications for palliative care. 
  • Initial assessment of a new instrument to measure quality of life at the end of life. 
  • Initial report of laparoscopic celiac plexus block for pain relief in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer. 
  • Initiating palliative care consults for advanced dementia patients in the emergency department. 
  • Inotropic therapy for heart failure: an evidence-based approach. 
  • Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care for Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia-Moving From Evidence to Practice-Reply. 
  • Integrated outpatient palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Integrating Dignity Therapy and Family Therapy in Palliative Care: A Case Study of Multiple Sclerosis, Depression, and Comorbid Cancer. 
  • Integrating Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit. Evidence Gaps and Quality Gaps. 
  • Integrating palliative care information and hospice referral in medicaid primary care. 
  • Integrating technology into palliative care research. 
  • Integrating the biopsychosocial model into quality measures in palliative care: a case for improving the hospice item set. 
  • Integration of Palliative Care into Acute Myeloid Leukemia Care. 
  • Intellectual Equipoise and Challenges: Accruing Patients With Advanced Cancer to a Trial Randomizing to Surgical or Nonsurgical Management (SWOG S1316). 
  • Intended Versus Inferred Treatment After 18F-Fluoride PET Performed for Evaluation of Osseous Metastatic Disease in the National Oncologic PET Registry. 
  • Intentional sedation to unconsciousness at the end of life: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • International practice survey on palliative lung radiotherapy: third international consensus workshop on palliative radiotherapy and symptom control. 
  • International practice survey on the management of brain metastases: Third International Consensus Workshop on Palliative Radiotherapy and Symptom Control. 
  • Introducing Palliative Care within the Treatment of End-Stage Liver Disease: The Study Protocol of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Introduction to a New Special Series for the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management-Science in Action: Evidence and Opportunities for Palliative Care Across Diverse Populations and Care Settings. 
  • Is Improving the Penetration Rate of Palliative Care the Right Measure? 
  • Is there a palliative benefit of gemcitabine plus fluoropyrimidines in patients with refractory colorectal cancer? A review of the literature previously presented: poster at the 2008 Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium (Abstract No. 512). 
  • It Is Time to Discuss Dying. 
  • Justifying different levels of palliative sedation. 
  • Kidney cancer. 
  • Knowledge and Perceptions Regarding Palliative Care Among Religious Leaders in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya: Survey and Focus Group Analysis. 
  • Korean Physicians' Perspectives on Prognostication in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Laparoscopic biliary and enteric bypass. 
  • Laparoscopy and peripancreatic neoplasia. 
  • Leading from the Heart. 
  • Lethal complications of standard self-retaining ureteral stents in patients with ileal conduit urinary diversion. 
  • Letter to the Editor Regarding "Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Professionals". 
  • Letter to the Editor: Acknowledging Grief: An Underrecognized Need in Palliative Care Training and Practice. 
  • Life Program: Pilot Testing a Palliative Psychology Group Intervention. 
  • Liposarcoma presenting as an intraluminal ureteral mass. 
  • Long-term efficacy of microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia. 
  • Longitudinal Trends in Costs of Palliative Radiation for Metastatic Prostate Cancer. 
  • Low-dose radiation for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder. 
  • Lung Transplant Pulmonologists' Views of Specialty Palliative Care for Lung Transplant Recipients. 
  • Lung cancer in the elderly. 
  • Lung cancer management in 2010. 
  • Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Mortality and Allocate Palliative Care for Older Patients With Hip Fracture. 
  • Maintaining the Momentum of Measuring What Matters: Overcoming Hurdles To Develop Electronic Clinical Quality Measures. 
  • Making the Right Thing Easier to Do: Standardized Integration of Oncology and Palliative Care. 
  • Malignant gastric outlet obstruction: bridging another divide. 
  • Management of 239 patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and related malformations from 1993 to 2007. 
  • Management of dyspnea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Management of dyspnea within a rapid learning healthcare model. 
  • Management of terminal cancer in elderly patients. 
  • Managing Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors Prescribed Long-Term Opioid Therapy: A National Survey of Ambulatory Palliative Care Providers. 
  • Managing advanced prostate cancer with Viadur (leuprolide acetate implant). 
  • Measuring Burnout in Palliative Care: Authors' Reply. 
  • Measuring end-of-life care outcomes prospectively. 
  • Measuring quality of life at the end of life: validation of the QUAL-E. 
  • Mental healthcare and palliative care: barriers. 
  • Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline. 
  • Metastatic melanoma to the spine. Demographics, risk factors, and prognosis in 114 patients. 
  • Methodological Research Priorities in Palliative Care and Hospice Quality Measurement. 
  • Minimally Invasive Muscle Sparing Posterior-Only Approach for Lumbar Circumferential Decompression and Stabilization to Treat Spine Metastasis--Technical Report. 
  • Minority Patients are Less Likely to Undergo Withdrawal of Care After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • Modifiable elements of ICU supportive care and communication are associated with surrogates' PTSD symptoms. 
  • Monitoring practices following epidural analgesics for pain management: a follow-up survey. 
  • Multicenter randomized trial of the spiral Z-stent compared with the Wallstent for malignant biliary obstruction. 
  • Multisite, Randomized Trial of Early Integrated Palliative and Oncology Care in Patients with Advanced Lung and Gastrointestinal Cancer: Alliance A221303. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2017. 
  • NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2021. 
  • NCCN Roundtable: Palliative Care: Providing Comfort From a Patient and Provider Perspective. 
  • NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: palliative care. 
  • Neonatal neuropalliative care. 
  • Neuropalliative Care for Neonates. 
  • Neuropalliative care: Priorities to move the field forward. 
  • Neurophysiological monitoring for the nucleus caudalis dorsal root entry zone operation. 
  • Never too old? Age should not be a barrier to enrollment in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Nurse-facilitated preparation and life completion interventions are acceptable and feasible in the Australian palliative care setting: results from a phase 2 trial. 
  • Nurses' Role in Providing Comprehensive Communication, Prognostication, and Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Ocular metastasis as the initial presentation of esophageal carcinoma. 
  • Oncology and Palliative Care Integration: Cocreating Quality and Value in the Era of Health Care Reform. 
  • Oncology service initiatives and research in regional Australia. 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All: Disease Profiles of Serious Illness Patients Receiving Specialty Palliative Care. 
  • Operationalizing needs-focused palliative care for older adults in intensive care units: Design of and rationale for the PCplanner randomized clinical trial. 
  • Operationalizing the Measuring What Matters Spirituality Quality Metric in a Population of Hospitalized, Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Opportunities to Improve Utilization of Palliative Care Among Adults With Cystic Fibrosis: A Systematic Review. 
  • Organizing Psychologists, Behavioral Scientists, and Allied Professionals: Formation of the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Palliative Care Special Interest Group. 
  • Osteoarthritis: From Palliation to Prevention: AOA Critical Issues. 
  • Outcomes of tracheobronchial stents in patients with malignant airway disease. 
  • Overcoming recruitment challenges in palliative care clinical trials. 
  • Oxygen for relief of dyspnea: what is the evidence? 
  • Oxygen for relief of dyspnoea in mildly- or non-hypoxaemic patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Pain in young adults--III: Relationships of three pain-coping measures to pain and activity interference. 
  • Palliating Premature Infants With Obstructed Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection via Catheterization. 
  • Palliative Care Always: Hepatology-Virtual Primary Palliative Care Training for Hepatologists. 
  • Palliative Care Awareness Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers in Singapore. 
  • Palliative Care Consultation Is Underutilized in Critically Ill General Surgery Patients. 
  • Palliative Care Consultations in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Who Receives Palliative Care Consultations and What Does that Mean for Utilization? 
  • Palliative Care Early in the Care Continuum among Patients with Serious Respiratory Illness: An Official ATS/AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN Policy Statement. 
  • Palliative Care Has Come of Age. 
  • Palliative Care Issues in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: An Evidenced-Based Review. 
  • Palliative Care Opportunities Among Adults With Congenital Heart Disease-A Systematic Review. 
  • Palliative Care Planner: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Acceptability and Usability of an Electronic Health Records System-integrated, Needs-targeted App Platform. 
  • Palliative Care Specialist Access is Associated With Rankings of Hospital Quality. 
  • Palliative Care Use Among People Living With HIV and Cancer: An Analysis of the National Cancer Database (2004-2018). 
  • Palliative Care Use for Critically Ill Patients With Brain Metastases. 
  • Palliative Care Version 1.2016. 
  • Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial. 
  • Palliative Care in the African American Community #204. 
  • Palliative Care. 
  • Palliative Performance Scale Score at 1 Week After Palliative Care Unit Admission is More Useful for Survival Prediction in Patients With Advanced Cancer in South Korea. 
  • Palliative Radiotherapy Versus Esophageal Stent Placement in the Management of Patients With Metastatic Esophageal Cancer. 
  • Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Newborns and Infants: From the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. 
  • Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies. 
  • Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Myelodysplastic Syndromes. 
  • Palliative and hospice care in gynecologic cancer: a review. 
  • Palliative care and coping in patients with acute myeloid leukemia: Mediation analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Palliative care and hospital readmissions in patients with advanced heart failure: Insights from the PAL-HF trial. 
  • Palliative care and oncology: integration leads to better care. 
  • Palliative care and oncology: integration leads to better care. 
  • Palliative care and the search for value in health reform. 
  • Palliative care experience and perceived gaps in training among transplant hepatology fellows: A national survey. 
  • Palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies: are we meeting patients' needs early enough? 
  • Palliative care in hematologic malignancies: a multidisciplinary approach. 
  • Palliative care in neonatal neurology: robust support for infants, families and clinicians. 
  • Palliative care integration in haematological malignancies: towards a needs-based approach. 
  • Palliative care is critical to the changing face of child mortality and morbidity in the United States. 
  • Palliative care knowledge, information sources, and beliefs: Results of a national survey of adults in the USA. 
  • Palliative care, Version 1.2014. Featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines. 
  • Palliative care. 
  • Palliative care. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology. 
  • Palliative chemotherapy: oxymoron or misunderstanding? 
  • Palliative extubation: five-year experience in a pediatric hospital. 
  • Palliative management of refractory dyspnea in COPD. 
  • Palliative pelvic exenteration: A systematic review of patient-centered outcomes. 
  • Palliative radiation therapy for bone metastases: Update of an ASTRO Evidence-Based Guideline. 
  • Palliative radiotherapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Palliative sedation: clinical context and ethical questions. 
  • Palliative services enhance the quality and value of gynecologic cancer care. 
  • Palliative surgery for head and neck cancer with extensive skin involvement. 
  • Palliative thoracic radiotherapy in advanced lung cancer: A single institution experience. 
  • Palliative treatment of dysphonia and dysarthria. 
  • Palliative treatment of malignant pleural effusions: value of small-bore catheter thoracostomy and doxycycline sclerotherapy. 
  • Palliative treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer: what is the optimal approach? 
  • Palliative treatment of rectal cancer: is radiotherapy alone a good option? 
  • Pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. 
  • Parenting while living with advanced cancer: A qualitative study. 
  • Patient and Caregiver Opinions of Motivational Interviewing Techniques In Role-Played Palliative Care Conversations: A Pilot Study. 
  • Patient, Caregiver, and Taxpayer Knowledge of Palliative Care and Views on a Model of Community-Based Palliative Care. 
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes for Cancer Patients Receiving Checkpoint Inhibitors: Opportunities for Palliative Care-A Systematic Review. 
  • Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Palliative Care: The Time is now. 
  • Patient-reported distress as an early warning sign of unmet palliative care needs and increased healthcare utilization in patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Patterns of Change in Individual Domains of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire With a Palliative Care Intervention for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Insights from PAL-HF. 
  • Patterns of chemotherapy-associated toxicity and supportive care in US oncology practice: a nationwide prospective cohort study. 
  • Paving a Better Path for Patients Dying of Heart Disease. 
  • Paying for Palliative Care in Medicare: Evidence From the Four Seasons/Duke CMMI Demonstration. 
  • Pediatric Goals of Care Communication: A Socioecological Model to Guide Conversations. 
  • Pediatric Palliative Care for Children With Severe Neurological Impairment and Their Families. 
  • Pediatric Perioperative DNR Orders: A Case Series in a Children's Hospital. 
  • Pediatric-Specific End-of-Life Care Quality Measures: An Unmet Need of a Vulnerable Population. 
  • Perceptions of Facilitators and Barriers to Measuring and Improving Quality in Palliative Care Programs. 
  • Perceptions of Hematology Among Palliative Care Physicians: Results of a Nationwide Survey. 
  • Perceptions of palliative care among hematologic malignancy specialists: a mixed-methods study. 
  • Perceptions of patients' self-efficacy for managing pain and lung cancer symptoms: correspondence between patients and family caregivers. 
  • Perceptions of specialty palliative care and its role in pediatric stem cell transplant: A multidisciplinary qualitative study. 
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty as palliation for patients considered poor surgical candidates. 
  • Performance of Consultative Palliative Care Model in Achieving Quality Metrics in the ICU. 
  • Pharyngoesophageal reconstruction using free jejunal interposition grafts. 
  • Phase II trial of single-agent weekly docetaxel in hormone-refractory, symptomatic, metastatic carcinoma of the prostate. 
  • Physical activity in patients with advanced-stage cancer: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Physician allocation of Medicare resources for patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Pilot study of the impact of massage therapy on sources and levels of distress in brain tumour patients. 
  • Policy Changes Key To Promoting Sustainability And Growth Of The Specialty Palliative Care Workforce. 
  • Polypharmacy in Palliative Care for Advanced Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Experience. 
  • Postoperative function of "free" jejunal transplants for replacement of the cervical esophagus. 
  • Potentially avoidable hospital admissions in older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in the USA: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Practical Strategies for Optimizing and Integrating Palliative Care in Cancer. 
  • Predicting 6- and 12-Month Risk of Mortality in Patients With Platinum-Resistant Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer: Prognostic Model to Guide Palliative Care Referrals. 
  • Predicting benefit from fulvestrant in pretreated metastatic breast cancer patients. 
  • Preferences of people with advanced heart failure-a structured narrative literature review to inform decision making in the palliative care setting. 
  • Preparedness planning before mechanical circulatory support: a "how-to" guide for palliative medicine clinicians. 
  • Pretransplantation Supportive and Palliative Care Consultation for High-Risk Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Patients. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the U.S. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the U.S. 
  • Priorities for Evaluating Palliative Care Outcomes in Intensive Care Units. 
  • Proceedings of the 13th International Newborn Brain Conference: Long-term outcome studies, Developmental care, Palliative care, Ethical dilemmas, and Challenging clinical scenarios. 
  • Promoting Palliative Care. 
  • Providing Palliative Care in the Medical ICU: A Qualitative Study of MICU Physicians' Beliefs and Practices. 
  • Provision of spiritual support to patients with advanced cancer by religious communities and associations with medical care at the end of life. 
  • Psychological and Financial Distress Management in Adults With Acute Leukemia. 
  • Psychotherapy Targeting Depression and Anxiety for Use in Palliative Care: A Meta-Analysis. 
  • Pulmonary Vein Doppler Patterns in Infants with Single Right Ventricle Anomalies After Initial Staged Palliations. 
  • Putting palliative care on the global health agenda. 
  • Qualitative Analysis of Palliative Care for Pediatric Patients With Cancer at Bugando Medical Center: An Evaluation of Barriers to Providing End-of-Life Care in a Resource-Limited Setting. 
  • Quality Improvement Pearls for the Palliative Care and Hospice Professional. 
  • Quality measures for palliative care in patients with cancer: a systematic review. 
  • Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium. 
  • Quantitation of response to therapy in patients with metastatic breast carcinoma by serial analysis of plasma gross cystic disease fluid protein and carcinoembryonic antigen. 
  • Race Differences in Quality of Life following a Palliative Care Intervention in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: Insights from the Palliative Care in Heart Failure Trial. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care utilization among gynecological cancer patients. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care. 
  • Racial and ethnic inequities of palliative care use among advanced Non-Small cell lung cancer patients in the US. 
  • Racial and geographic disparities in timing of bidirectional Glenn and Fontan stages of single-ventricle palliation. 
  • Racial differences in next-of-kin participation in an ongoing survey of satisfaction with end-of-life care: a study of a study. 
  • Racism in Palliative Care Research: We Still have a Ways to Go. 
  • Radiation Therapy for Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas. 
  • Radiation Therapy for Solitary Plasmacytoma and Multiple Myeloma: Guidelines From the International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group. 
  • Radiation dose considerations in the palliative treatment of locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. 
  • Radiation therapy in the management of neuroblastoma: the Duke University Medical Center experience 1967-1984. 
  • Radiofrequency Ablation Provides Rapid and Durable Pain Relief for the Palliative Treatment of Lytic Bone Metastases Independent of Radiation Therapy: Final Results from the OsteoCool Tumor Ablation Post-Market Study. 
  • Radiofrequency Ablation for the Palliative Treatment of Bone Metastases: Outcomes from the Multicenter OsteoCool Tumor Ablation Post-Market Study (OPuS One Study) in 100 Patients. 
  • Radiologic, endoscopic, and surgical considerations of melanoma metastatic to the gastrointestinal tract. 
  • Randomized trial in malignant biliary obstruction: plastic vs partially covered metal stents. 
  • Rapidly progressing adenocarcinoma of the prostate presenting as prostatitis. 
  • Rare breast metastasis from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the submandibular gland. 
  • Recombinant human acid [alpha]-glucosidase: major clinical benefits in infantile-onset Pompe disease. 
  • Recurrence After Partial Hepatectomy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Potentially Curative Role of Salvage Repeat Resection. 
  • Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Palliative Care for Older African Americans through Improved Advance Care Planning: Study Design and Protocol. 
  • Reduction in antimicrobial use among medical intensive care unit patients during a cluster randomized crossover trial of palliative care consultation. 
  • Reenvisioning the Adult Nephrology Workforce: The Future of Kidney Care in the United States. 
  • Refinement of a Conceptual Model for Adolescent Readiness to Engage in End-of-Life Discussions. 
  • Refining a checklist for reporting patient populations and service characteristics in hospice and palliative care research. 
  • Regional variation in identified cancer care needs of early-career oncologists in China, India, and Pakistan. 
  • Reimagine: a randomized controlled trial of an online, symptom self-management curriculum among breast cancer survivors. 
  • Repair of congenital heart disease: a primer-part 1. 
  • Reply to J. Schildmann et al. 
  • Reply: Standardized and Tailored Approach to Therapies for Cardiogenic Shock. 
  • Research in end-of-life settings: an ethical inquiry. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Response to "Obstacles to palliation and end-of-life care in a long-term care facility". 
  • Response to Bharadwaj et al., Challenges of Promoting Uniformity in Programs within a Health Care System (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0404). 
  • Revascularized jejunal graft replacing the cervical esophagus: radiographic evaluation. 
  • Review of Religious Variables in Advance Care Planning for End-of-Life Care: Consideration of Faith as a New Construct. 
  • Risk factors for cerebrovascular events following fontan palliation in patients with a functional single ventricle. 
  • Risk factors for mortality and morbidity after the neonatal Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure. 
  • Role of surgical intervention in the management of intestinal metastases from malignant melanoma. 
  • Safety and benefit of discontinuing statin therapy in the setting of advanced, life-limiting illness: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Searching for "the dying point:" providers' experiences with palliative care in pediatric acute care. 
  • Second-line chemotherapy for advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer. 
  • Selection Bias in Observational Studies of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned. 
  • Selective survival advantage associated with primary tumor resection for metastatic gastric cancer in a Western population. 
  • Sex Differences in Quality of Life and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Insights From the PAL-HF Trial. 
  • Should palliative care be a necessity or a luxury during an overwhelming health catastrophe? 
  • Signposts along the journey toward high-quality palliative care: the value of measuring what matters. 
  • Sildenafil exposure and hemodynamic effect after stage II single-ventricle surgery. 
  • Social work competencies in palliative and end-of-life care. 
  • Socio-economic inequalities in suffering at the end of life among advanced cancer patients: results from the APPROACH study in five Asian countries. 
  • Specialized palliative care services are associated with improved short- and long-term caregiver outcomes. 
  • Specialty Palliative Care in COVID-19: Early Experiences from the Palliative Care Quality Collaborative. 
  • Spiritual care at the end of life: what is it and who does it? 
  • Spirituality in Patients With Heart Failure. 
  • Spirituality, Palliative Care, and the Intensive Care Unit. A New Approach. 
  • Stage 1 hybrid palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome--assessment of contemporary patterns of use: an analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Standardization and Scaling of a Community-Based Palliative Care Model. 
  • Standards for palliative care delivery in oncology settings. 
  • Standards, Guidelines, and Quality Measures for Successful Specialty Palliative Care Integration Into Oncology: Current Approaches and Future Directions. 
  • State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part I: Definitions, Measurement, and Outcomes. 
  • State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research Part II: Screening, Assessment, and Interventions. 
  • State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research: Research Landscape and Future Directions. 
  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy for lesions of the spine and paraspinal regions. 
  • Study protocol for a cohort study of patients with advanced heart failure in Singapore. 
  • Study protocol for a randomised trial evaluating the non-inferiority of stepped palliative care versus early integrated palliative care for patients with advanced lung cancer. 
  • Supporting Muslim Patients During Advanced Illness. 
  • Supportive Care in Lung Cancer: Improving Value in the Era of Modern Therapies. 
  • Surgery for palliation and treatment of advanced breast cancer. 
  • Surgical Resection of the Primary Tumor in Stage IV Colorectal Cancer Without Metastasectomy is Associated With Improved Overall Survival Compared With Chemotherapy/Radiation Therapy Alone. 
  • Surgical management of intestinal obstruction in ovarian cancer. I. Clinical features, postoperative complications, and survival. 
  • Surgical treatment of resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer: expert consensus statement by Evans et al. 
  • Surprising finding of a primary pericardial mesothelioma. 
  • Survival After Intervention for Single-Ventricle Heart Disease Over 15 Years at a Single Institution. 
  • Sweet the sound. Music in medicine. 
  • Symptom Burden and Performance Status among Community-Dwelling Patients with Serious Illness. 
  • Symptom Burden of Chronic Lung Disease Compared with Lung Cancer at Time of Referral for Palliative Care Consultation. 
  • Symptom Burden, Perceived Control, and Quality of Life Among Patients Living With Multiple Myeloma. 
  • Symptom Distress: Implementation of Palliative Care Guidelines to Improve Pain, Fatigue, and Anxiety in Patients With Advanced Cancer. 
  • Symptom burden of haematological malignancies as death approaches in a community palliative care service: a retrospective cohort study of a consecutive case series. 
  • Symptom experience and self-management for multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastric cancer: A qualitative study. 
  • Symptom management in patients with lung cancer: Diagnosis and management of lung cancer, 3rd ed: American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. 
  • Symptom management in the elderly cancer patient: fatigue, pain, and depression. 
  • Targeted investment improves access to hospice and palliative care. 
  • The Act of Hospice: Understanding a Family's Perception of Palliative Care--When You're Family. 
  • The Burden of Polypharmacy in Patients Near the End of Life. 
  • The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Conversations with Emerging Leaders in Palliative Care. 
  • The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Project Summaries from the Inaugural Scholar Cohort. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Palliative Care Considerations. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Palliative care considerations. 
  • The Congenital Heart Surgeon's Society Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect Cohort: Baseline, Preintervention Echocardiographic Characteristics. 
  • The Cost-Effectiveness of Palliative Care: Insights from the PAL-HF Trial. 
  • The Denominator: Evolving the Electronic Medical Record To Discover Who Needs Palliative Care. 
  • The Evaluation of a Palliative Care Advanced Practice Nursing Externship. 
  • The Implementation of Measuring What Matters in Research and Practice: Series Commentary. 
  • The Optimal Timing of Stage-2-Palliation After the Norwood Operation. 
  • The Organ Transplant Imperative. 
  • The Palliative Care Specialists Series: Equipping the Field for Upstream Care. 
  • The Population Burden of Chronic Symptoms that Substantially Predate the Diagnosis of a Life-Limiting Illness. 
  • The Prospective Evaluation of the Net Effect of Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Routine Provision of Palliative Care. 
  • The Quality Improvement Environment: Results of the 2016 AAHPM/HPNA Membership Needs Assessment Survey. 
  • The Surprise Question and Identification of Palliative Care Needs among Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Hematologic or Solid Malignancies. 
  • The Trial to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Nursing Home Residents With Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias (TRAIN-AD): A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • The Use of Indwelling Tunneled Pleural Catheters for Recurrent Pleural Effusions in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies: A Multicenter Study. 
  • The Use of Re-irradiation in Locally Recurrent, Non-metastatic Rectal Cancer. 
  • The Voice of Surrogate Decision-Makers. Family Responses to Prognostic Information in Chronic Critical Illness. 
  • The authors reply. 
  • The benefits of expanded physician assistant practice in hospice and palliative medicine. 
  • The clinical management of chondrosarcoma. 
  • The effect of hospice on Medicare and informal care costs: the U.S. Experience. 
  • The effect of palliative care on patient functioning. 
  • The effectiveness of locoregional therapies versus supportive care in maintaining survival within the Milan criteria in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • The effects of castration on adrenal testosterone secretion in men with prostatic carcinoma. 
  • The feasibility and acceptability of a chaplain-led intervention for caregivers of seriously ill patients: A Caregiver Outlook pilot study. 
  • The future of research: "leading with care" 
  • The management of chronic graft-versus-host disease. 
  • The need for a Serious Illness Digital Ecosystem (SIDE) to improve outcomes for patients receiving palliative and hospice care. 
  • The need for a re-evaluation of best supportive care studies reported to date. 
  • The older cancer patient. 
  • The palliative care in heart failure trial: rationale and design. 
  • The quality imperative for palliative care. 
  • The role of a palliative care intervention in moderating the relationship between depression and survival among individuals with advanced cancer. 
  • The role of geriatric palliative care in hospitalized older adults. 
  • The role of laparoscopy in the management of suspected pancreatic and periampullary malignancies. 
  • The role of radiation therapy in the management of metastatic renal cell carcinoma. 
  • The self-efficacy of family caregivers for helping cancer patients manage pain at end-of-life. 
  • The surgical management of metastatic melanoma. 
  • The value of data collection within a palliative care program. 
  • Thoracic metastasectomy for adoptive immunotherapy of melanoma: a single-institution experience. 
  • Time to define high-quality palliative care in oncology. 
  • Timing of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in head and neck cancer patients. 
  • To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. 
  • Top 10 Tips About the Physician Quality Reporting System for Palliative Care Professionals. 
  • Top 10 Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Radiation Oncology. 
  • Top 10 Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know When Caring for Patients with Ovarian Cancer. 
  • Top 10 Tips for Using Advance Care Planning Codes in Palliative Medicine and Beyond. 
  • Top Ten Things Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Hindus. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Bereavement and Grief. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Buprenorphine. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Children. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Jewish Patients. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Muslims. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Serious Illness in Pregnancy. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Cognitive Impairment and Institutional Care. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Disorders of Consciousness: A Focus on Traumatic and Anoxic Brain Injury. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About End-Stage Liver Disease. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Integrating Population Health Principles into Practice. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Interventional Pain and Procedures. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Interventional Symptom Management Options When Caring for Patients with Gastrointestinal Malignancies. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Managing Immune-Mediated Endocrine Toxicities in Cancer. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Medical Cannabis. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Medical Decision-Making Capacity Assessment. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Mental Health and Serious Illness. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Music Therapy and Art Therapy. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Navigating the Needs of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Children. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Critical Illness and Heart, Kidney, and Liver Diseases. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Oncology, Dementia, Frailty, and Pulmonary Diseases. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Psychopharmacology. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Psychosocial and Family Support. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Seizures at the End of Life. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Solid Organ Transplantation. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Spinal Tumors. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Spirituality in Serious Illness. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Strokes. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Teaching Trainees How to Conduct a Family Meeting. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Urological Care. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know When Caring for Patients with Endometrial Cancer. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know about Implementing a Team Wellness Program. 
  • Top Ten Tips for Palliative Care Clinicians Caring for Cancer Patients Receiving Immunotherapies. 
  • Top Ten Tips for Palliative Care Clinicians Caring for Heart Failure Patients. 
  • Topotecan in the treatment of elderly patients with relapsed small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Toward a more materialistic medicine: the value of authentic materialism within current and future medical practice. 
  • Toward population-based indicators of quality end-of-life care: testing stakeholder agreement. 
  • Tracking Patients in Community-Based Palliative Care through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare Innovation Project. 
  • Trajectories of Health-related quality of life in patients with Advanced Cancer during the Last Year of Life: findings from the COMPASS study. 
  • Trajectories of Palliative Care Needs in the ICU and Long-Term Psychological Distress Symptoms. 
  • Transcending differences to study the transcendent: an exploratory study of researchers' and chaplains' reflections on interdisciplinary spiritual care research collaboration. 
  • Transitions in Care for Infants with Trisomy 13 or 18. 
  • Treatment of malignant pleural effusions. 
  • Treatment of unresectable primary liver cancer with intrahepatic fluorodeoxyuridine and mitomycin C through an implantable pump. 
  • Treatment of uterine leiomyosarcoma. 
  • Treatment-related toxicity and supportive care in metastatic colorectal cancer. 
  • Trends in Place of Death for Individuals With Cardiovascular Disease in the United States. 
  • Trends in palliative care interventions among patients with advanced bladder, prostate, or kidney cancer: A retrospective cohort study. 
  • Understanding Treatment Effect Terminology in Pain and Symptom Management Research. 
  • Understanding predictors of prolonged hospitalizations among general medicine patients: A guide and preliminary analysis. 
  • Unmet Needs of African Americans and Whites at the Time of Palliative Care Consultation. 
  • Update in Hospice and Palliative Care. 
  • Update in hospital palliative care. 
  • Update of the international consensus on palliative radiotherapy endpoints for future clinical trials in bone metastases. 
  • Update on combined-modality treatment options for pancreatic cancer. 
  • Usability and Acceptability of the QDACT-PC, an Electronic Point-of-Care System for Standardized Quality Monitoring in Palliative Care. 
  • Usability of PCforMe in Patients With Advanced Cancer Referred to Outpatient Palliative Care: Results of a Randomized, Active-Controlled Pilot Trial. 
  • Use of Balloon Atrial Septostomy in Patients With Advanced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Use of Palliative Care Among Commercially Insured Patients With Metastatic Cancer Between 2001 and 2016. 
  • Use of Theoretical Frameworks in the Development and Testing of Palliative Care Interventions. 
  • Use of a Novel Trigger Tool to Identify Palliative Care Needs in Surgical Patients at a National Referral Hospital in Kenya: A Pilot Study. 
  • Use of targeted therapy in cancer patients in the end-of-life period: results from an Australian centre. 
  • Usefulness of Palliative Care to Complement the Management of Patients on Left Ventricular Assist Devices. 
  • Using Technology to Create a More Humanistic Approach to Integrating Palliative Care into the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Using qualitative methods to explore key questions in palliative care. 
  • Validation of a measure of family experience of patients with serious illness: the QUAL-E (Fam). 
  • Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer Receiving Specialist Palliative Care. 
  • Vinorelbine (Navelbine) in non-small cell lung cancer: future directions. 
  • What constitutes quality of family experience at the end of life? Perspectives from family members of patients who died in the hospital. 
  • What do patients think about palliative care? A national survey of hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. 
  • What do transplant physicians think about palliative care? A national survey study. 
  • What is "optimal nourishment" for older adults at the end of life? A conversation. Interview by Connie W. Bales. 
  • What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program? 
  • When a chance to cut is not a chance to cure: a future for palliative surgery? 
  • When and why should patients with hematologic malignancies see a palliative care specialist? 
  • When to Integrate Palliative Care in the Trajectory of Cancer Care. 
  • Where Children Die: Obstacles to Quality End-of-Life Care. 
  • Who is coordinating pediatric concurrent hospice care? 
  • Why Are We Failing to Do What Works? Musings on Outpatient Palliative Care Integration in Cancer Care. 
  • Why Consistency in Practice Will Build Trust in Palliative Care. 
  • Why Physicians Should Oppose Assisted Suicide. 
  • Why palliative care is the answer to the serious illness question in payment reform. 
  • Young caregivers in the end-of-life setting: a population-based profile of an emerging group. 
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  • Boucher, Nathan Adam, Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Medicine, Geriatrics
  • Check, Devon Karnes, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Kiser-Arena Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Curlin, Farr A, Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Davidson, Brittany A, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Docherty, Sharron Lee, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Duke Science & Society
  • Ginsberg, Zachary, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Johnson, Margaret, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Kaufman, Brystana G., Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Kayastha, Neha, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • LeBlanc, Thomas William, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Lee, Walter T, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Radiation Oncology
  • Mentz, Robert John, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Rent, Sharla Marie, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Neonatology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
  • Santivasi, Wil Leonard, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Smith, Sophia Kustas, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • St Clair Russell, Jennifer Joanne, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Uronis, Hope Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society