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Knowledge, education and training

This section considers submissions that focus on the development, outcomes or discussion of guidelines, developments and training programmes for improving knowledge and clinical practice in the palliative care of patients with far advanced disease

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  1. Understanding public attitudes towards death and dying is important to inform public policies around End of Life Care (EoLC). We studied the public attitudes towards death and dying in Wales.

    Authors: Ishrat Islam, Annmarie Nelson, Mirella Longo and Anthony Byrne

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:116

    Content type: Research article

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  2. An upstream approach to palliative care in the last 12 months of life delivered by primary care practices is often referred to as Primary Palliative Care (PPC). Implementing case management functions can suppo...

    Authors: Grace Warner, Lisa Garland Baird, Brendan McCormack, Robin Urquhart, Beverley Lawson, Cheryl Tschupruk, Erin Christian, Lori Weeks, Kothai Kumanan and Tara Sampalli

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:114

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Caring for individuals and their families with a life-limiting, symptomatic illness and those who are dying has long been an integral role of palliative care nurses. Yet, over the last two decades, the special...

    Authors: Sue Moran, Maria Bailey and Owen Doody

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:111

    Content type: Research article

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  4. The extension of palliative care services to meet the needs of patients with chronic non-malignant life-limiting conditions faces misconceptions amongst healthcare professionals. A study of prevailing percepti...

    Authors: Jason Tay, Scott Compton, Gillian Phua, Qingyuan Zhuang, Shirlyn Neo, Guozhang Lee, Limin Wijaya, Min Chiam, Natalie Woong and Lalit Krishna

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:101

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Nursing homes are likely to become increasingly important as end-of-life care facilities. Previous studies indicate that individuals residing in these facilities have a high prevalence of end-of-life symptoms ...

    Authors: Emilio Mota-Romero, Ana Alejandra Esteban-Burgos, Daniel Puente-Fernández, María Paz García-Caro, Cesar Hueso-Montoro, Raquel Mercedes Herrero-Hahn and Rafael Montoya-Juárez

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:98

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Advance care planning (ACP), a process of communication about patients’ preferences for future medical care, should be initiated in a timely manner. Ideally situated for this initiation is the general practiti...

    Authors: Julie Stevens, Peter Pype, Kim Eecloo, Luc Deliens, Koen Pardon and Aline De Vleminck

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:97

    Content type: Study protocol

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  7. In the Netherlands, healthcare professionals attending patients in the last phase of life, can consult an expert palliative care team (PCT) in case of complex problems. There are two types of PCTs: regional PC...

    Authors: Marijanne Engel, Arianne Stoppelenburg, Andrée van der Ark, Floor M. Bols, Johannis Bruggeman, Ellen C.J. Janssens-van Vliet, Johanna H. Kleingeld-van der Windt, Ingrid E. Pladdet, Angelique E.M.J. To-Baert, Lia van Zuylen and Agnes van der Heide

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:81

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Rapid implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) across care settings has challenged providers and organizations, including hospices, to develop and implement new modes of practice. The aim of this s...

    Authors: Shannon Freeman, Davina Banner and Valerie Ward

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:55

    Content type: Research article

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  9. The denial of death in Western society deprives young people of the tools to derive meaning from experiences of death and dying. Literature shows that death education may allow them to become familiar with thi...

    Authors: Ines Testoni, Lorenza Palazzo, Lucia Ronconi, Stefania Donna, Paolo Francesco Cottone and Michael Alexander Wieser

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:54

    Content type: Research article

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  10. In many countries, nurses are ill-prepared to provide care to patients with terminal illnesses. Limited education and training affect their ability to deliver proper palliative care. Only a few studies have ex...

    Authors: Yanping Hao, Lixuan Zhan, Meiling Huang, Xianying Cui, Ying Zhou and En Xu

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:50

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Due to the ageing population in Hong Kong, the importance and need of palliative care and end-of-life (EOL) care are coming under the spotlight. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the attitudes of e...

    Authors: Kwun Hang Wong, Li Chuan Marc Yang, Kam Wing Raymond Woo, Oi Fung Wong, Wing Yan Kwong, Choi Fung Tse, Shing Kit Tommy Lam, Hing Man Ma, Chau Hung Albert Lit, Hiu Fai Ho and Yau Ngai Shih

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:48

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Palliative care is recognised as a public health issue with the need for earlier integration in the wider healthcare system. However, research indicates that it continues to be accessed late in the course of a...

    Authors: Sonja McIlfatrick, Paul Slater, Esther Beck, Olufikayo Bamidele, Sharon McCloskey, Karen Carr, Deborah Muldrew, Lisa Hanna-Trainor and Felicity Hasson

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:44

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Nurses’ palliative and hospice care-specific education is associated with the quality of palliative and hospice care that influences health outcomes of patients with life-limiting illnesses and their caregiver...

    Authors: Zhijie Zou, Jinbing Bai, Yaohua Gu, Qihua Zou, Canhua Xiao, Jiong Yang, Qing Zhang and Mark Lazenby

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:32

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Spirituality is a fundamental, intrinsic aspect of human beings and should be a core component of quality palliative care. There is an urgent need to train hospice palliative care teams (HPCTs) to enhance thei...

    Authors: Kyung-Ah Kang, Shin-Jeong Kim, Do-Bong Kim, Myung-Hee Park, Soo-Jin Yoon, Sung-Eun Choi, Young-Sim Choi and Su-Jin Koh

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:30

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:65

  15. China holds one fifth of the world’s population and faces a rapidly aging society. In its ambition to reach a health care standard comparable to developed countries by 2030, the implementation of palliative ca...

    Authors: Antonia M. Willemsen, Piret Paal, Silja Zhang, Stephen Mason and Frank Elsner

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:14

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Palliative care day services provide a safe environment for people with palliative care needs, enabling them to access a range of services while acting as a respite services for family caregivers. Viewed as ma...

    Authors: Felicity Hasson, Joanne Jordan, Laurie McKibben, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Anne Finucane, Kathy Armour, Shazia Zafar, Alistair Hewison, Kevin Brazil and W. George Kernohan

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:11

    Content type: Research article

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  17. The aging of migrant populations across Europe challenges researchers in palliative care to produce knowledge that can be used to respond to the needs of the growing group of patients with a migration backgrou...

    Authors: M. Torensma, B. D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, X. de Voogd, D. L. Willems and J. L. Suurmond

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2021 20:5

    Content type: Research article

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  18. In contrast to typical measures employed to assess outcomes in healthcare such as mortality or recovery rates, it is difficult to define which specific outcomes of care are the most important in caring for dyi...

    Authors: Sofia C. Zambrano, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Agnes van der Heide, Vilma A. Tripodoro, John Ellershaw, Carl Johan Fürst, Raymond Voltz, Stephen Mason, María L. Daud, Gustavo De Simone, Kerstin Kremeike, Svandis Iris Halfdanardottir, Valgerdur Sigurdardottir, Jeremy Johnson, Simon Allan, Haroon Hafeez…

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:184

    Content type: Study protocol

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  19. Limited comprehension of the concept of palliative care and misconceptions about it are barriers to meaningful utilisation of palliative care programs. As caregivers play an integral role for patients with ter...

    Authors: Sameena Shah, Faizan Qaisar, Iqbal Azam and Khairunnisa Mansoor

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:180

    Content type: Research article

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  20. The linguistic and cultural diversity found in European societies creates specific challenges to palliative care clinicians. Patients’ heterogeneous habits, beliefs and social situations, and in many cases lan...

    Authors: Imane Semlali, Emmanuel Tamches, Pascal Singy and Orest Weber

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:171

    Content type: Research article

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  21. The disparities in access to pediatric palliative care and pain management in Latin America remains an unaddressed global health issue. Efforts to improve the development of Palliative Care (PC) provision have...

    Authors: Ximena Garcia-Quintero, Luis Gabriel Parra-Lara, Angelica Claros-Hulbert, Maria Isabel Cuervo-Suarez, Wendy Gomez-Garcia, Francois Desbrandes and Natalia Arias-Casais

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:170

    Content type: Research article

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  23. Palliative care is typically performed in-hospital. However, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers are uniquely positioned to deliver early palliative care as they are often the first point of medical cont...

    Authors: Caleb Hanson Gage, Heike Geduld and Willem Stassen

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:153

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Eliciting individual values and preferences of patients is essential to delivering high quality palliative care and ensuring patient-centered advance care planning. Despite advance care planning conserving hea...

    Authors: Rakhshan Kamran and Arianna Dal Cin

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:151

    Content type: Technical advance

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  25. Training in medical ethics aims to educate health care professionals in dealing with daily care ethical issues. To guarantee quality of life and spiritual and emotional support, palliative care professionals h...

    Authors: Ludovica De Panfilis, Silvia Tanzi, Marta Perin, Elena Turola and Giovanna Artioli

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:149

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Sedation in palliative care is frequently but controversially discussed. Heterogeneous definitions and conceptual confusion have been cited as contributing to different problems 1) relevant to empirical resear...

    Authors: Alexander Kremling and Jan Schildmann

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:147

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Studies have shown that telehealth applications in palliative care are feasible, can improve quality of care, and reduce costs but few studies have focused on user acceptance of current technology applications...

    Authors: M. Nguyen, J. Fujioka, K. Wentlandt, N. Onabajo, I. Wong, R. S. Bhatia, O. Bhattacharyya and V. Stamenova

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:138

    Content type: Research article

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  28. To understand the status of residents’ awareness of and demand for hospice care services in Hangzhou and to provide a reference for promoting the formulation of hospice care-related policies in China.

    Authors: Yanhong Xie, Ying Xu, Shulan Yang, Jing Yan, Xiao Qing Jin and Caixia Liu

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:128

    Content type: Research article

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  29. Managing transition of adolescents/young adults with life-limiting conditions from children’s to adult services has become a global health and social care issue. Suboptimal transitions from children’s to adult...

    Authors: Helen Kerr, Kimberley Widger, Geraldine Cullen-Dean, Jayne Price and Peter O’Halloran

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:115

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  30. One of the most difficult and stressful tasks faced by health science students is having to cope with death and dying due to the emotional burden of the same. Furthermore, the moral, ethical and professional v...

    Authors: Sagrario Pérez- de la Cruz and Ivonne Ramírez

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:111

    Content type: Research article

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  31. Palliative care is a patient-centred, integrated approach for improving quality of life for both patients facing life-threatening illnesses and for their families. Although there has been increased interest in...

    Authors: Sanghee Kim, Kyunghwa Lee and Sookyung Kim

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:105

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  32. Evaluation of palliative care services is crucial in order to ensure high quality care and to plan future services in light of growing demand. There is also an acknowledgement of the need to better understand ...

    Authors: Lynn Sudbury-Riley, Philippa Hunter-Jones and Ahmed Al-Abdin

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:104

    Content type: Technical advance

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  33. Continuous subcutaneous infusions (CSCIs) are commonly used in the United Kingdom as a way of administering medication to patients requiring symptom control when the oral route is compromised. These infusions ...

    Authors: J. Baker, A. Dickman, S. Mason, M. Bickerstaff, R. Jackson, A. McArdle, I. Lawrence, F. Stephenson, N. Paton, J. Kirk, B. Waters and J. Ellershaw

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:99

    Content type: Research article

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  35. In the last years of life, burden of disease and disability and need of health- and social care often increase. Social, functional and psychological factors may be important in regard to social- and health car...

    Authors: Jenny Hallgren, Linda Johansson, Christina Lannering, Marie Ernsth Bravell and Catharina Gillsjö

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:90

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  36. Despite 50 years of modern palliative care (PC), a misunderstanding of its purpose persists. The original message that PC is focused on total care, helping to live until the person dies, is being replaced and ...

    Authors: Carla Reigada, Maria Arantzamendi and Carlos Centeno

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:88

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  37. The aim of this study was to analyse the buffering effect of individual, social and organisational resources on health and intention to leave the profession in the context of burden due to quantitative job dem...

    Authors: Elisabeth Diehl, Sandra Rieger, Stephan Letzel, Anja Schablon, Albert Nienhaus, Luis Carlos Escobar Pinzon and Pavel Dietz

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:83

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  38. Advance care planning (ACP) facilitates identification and documentation of patients’ treatment preferences. Its goal aligns with that of palliative care – optimizing quality of life of seriously ill patients....

    Authors: Johnny T. K. Cheung, Doreen Au, Anthony H. F. Ip, Jenny Chan, Kenway Ng, Lok Cheung, Jacqueline Yuen, Elsie Hui, Jenny Lee, Raymond Lo and Jean Woo

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:80

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  39. Difficulties in identifying patients at risk of clinical deterioration or death represent one of the main barriers to Palliative Care (PC) development in the community. Currently, no specific Italian tools aim...

    Authors: Giuseppe Casale, Caterina Magnani, Renato Fanelli, Laura Surdo, Mauro Goletti, Kirsty Boyd, Daniela D’Angelo and Chiara Mastroianni

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:79

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  40. Informal caregivers represent the foundation of the palliative care workforce and are the main providers of end of life care. Financial pressures are among the most serious concerns for many carers and the fin...

    Authors: Clare Gardiner, Jackie Robinson, Michael Connolly, Claire Hulme, Kristy Kang, Christine Rowland, Phil Larkin, David Meads, Tessa Morgan and Merryn Gott

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:71

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  41. Early integration of palliative care concurrently to standard cancer care is associated with several benefits for patients and their caregivers. However, communication barriers on part of the caring physicians...

    Authors: Nele Harnischfeger, Hilke M. Rath, Anneke Ullrich, Bernd Alt-Epping, Anne Letsch, Peter Thuss-Patience, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle and Corinna Bergelt

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:67

    Content type: Study protocol

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  42. Although statements on the competencies required from physicians working within palliative care exist, these requirements have not been described within different levels of palliative care provision by multi-p...

    Authors: Hanna-Leena Melender, Minna Hökkä, Tiina Saarto and Juho T. Lehto

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:65

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  43. Nurses are involved in providing end-of-life care for end stage individuals and their self-efficacy is one of the key factors bearing on such care. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pall...

    Authors: Fatemeh Dehghani, Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Maryam Sedaghati-kasbakhi and Hossein Fallahzadeh

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:63

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  44. The working group for palliative medicine within the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) network funded by the German Cancer Aid in Germany has developed and published 14 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for...

    Authors: Sarah Lödel, Christoph Ostgathe, Maria Heckel, Karin Oechsle and Susanne Gahr

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:62

    Content type: Research article

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  45. The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire - Expanded (MQOL-E) and the Quality of Life in Life-Threatening Illness-Family Carer/Caregiver version (QOLLTI-F) are developed for use with patients facing the end of ...

    Authors: Lena Axelsson, Anette Alvariza, Nina Carlsson, S. Robin Cohen, Richard Sawatzky and Kristofer Årestedt

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:40

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  46. Providing end of life care (EoLC) is an important aspect of primary care, which reduces the risk of hospital admission for most patients. However, general practitioners (GPs) seem to have low confidence in the...

    Authors: Simon Schwill, Dorothee Reith, Tobias Walter, Peter Engeser, Michel Wensing, Elisabeth Flum, Joachim Szecsenyi and Katja Krug

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:36

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  47. Since people with advanced dementia are usually not able to make complex decisions, it is usually the family caregivers, as proxies, who have to decide on treatments and their termination. However, these decis...

    Authors: Lina Riedl, Manuela Bertok, Julia Hartmann, Julia Fischer, Carola Rossmeier, Andreas Dinkel, Marion Ortner and Janine Diehl-Schmid

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:30

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  48. The availability of interventions for bereaved parents have increased. However, most are practice based. To enhance the implementation of bereavement care for parents, an overview of interventions which are re...

    Authors: Eline M. Kochen, Floor Jenken, Paul A. Boelen, Laura M. A. Deben, Jurrianne C. Fahner, Agnes van den Hoogen, Saskia C. C. M. Teunissen, Karin Geleijns and Marijke C. Kars

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:28

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  49. Early identification of patients requiring palliative care is a major public health concern. A growing number of instruments exist to help professionals to identify these patients, however, thus far, none have...

    Authors: Fabienne Teike Lüthi, Mathieu Bernard, Michel Beauverd, Claudia Gamondi, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet and Gian Domenico Borasio

    Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2020 19:19

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