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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: End-of-Life Care

End-of-Life Care current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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March 2024

Attitudes of oncology nurses towards care of dying patients and the principles of dying with dignity and their views on good death 10.1177/00302228211057743

Attitudes towards assisted dying in dementia 10.1177/00302228211063297

Conducting goals of care conversations: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic 10.1177/08258597231153386

"Dying with a smile, just knowing that somebody's listened to me": end-of-life care and medical assistance in dying in Canadian prisons 10.1177/00302228211052341

End-of-life care planning and bereavement practices among adult day services centers, 2018 10.1177/10499091231163269

End-of-life doulas: documenting their backgrounds and services 10.1177/00302228211047097

End-of-life therapeutic videography in pediatrics: feasibility and acceptability 10.1177/00302228211046793

Expert perspectives on the additional benefit of day hospices and palliative day care clinics in Germany 10.1177/10499091231168574

Exploring the use of virtual funerals during the COVID-19 pandemic 10.1177/00302228211045288

Extreme symptom burden for patients with COVID-19 at the end of life; extrapolation of knowledge gained to achieve sustained comfort and dignity for all patients in their last days of life 10.1177/10499091231164135

Knowledge gaps in end-of-life family caregiving for persons living with dementia 10.1177/10499091231176298

Live discharge of hospice patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias 10.1177/10499091231168401

Loss of personal autonomy and dignity-related distress in end-of-life cancer patients 10.1177/10499091231166373

Navigating and communicating about serious illness and end of life 10.1056/NEJMcp2304436

Nobody should die alone: loneliness and a dignified death during the COVID-19 pandemic 10.1177/00302228211048316

A request for gender-affirming treatment in end-of-life care 10.1177/10499091231174245

The spectrum of end-of-life experiences: a tool for advancing death education 10.1177/00302228211052342

'They're going to die at some point, but we're all going to die' – a qualitative exploration of bereavement in later life 10.1177/00302228211053058

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, The (Jan-Mar); Journal of Palliative Care (Jan); NEJM (4th Jan); OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying (Dec-Mar)

January 2024

Advance care planning among older adults with cognitive impairment DOI: 10.1177/10499091221146255

Balancing pandemic public health restrictions and family support at the end of life: palliative care and bereavement experiences of parents whose child died during the COVID-19 pandemic DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01280-8

Bereaved families views on the death of loved ones due to COVID-19: an integrative review DOI: 10.1177/00302228211038206

Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt DOI: 10.1177/26323524231209059

Dying by suicide in nursing homes: a preventable end of life outcome for older residents DOI: 10.1177/00302228211038798

Evaluation of direct medical costs and associated factors within the last 30 days of life of hospitalized cancer patients DOI: 10.1177/10499091221147906

Experiences of engaging a death doula: qualitative interviews with bereaved family members DOI: 10.1177/26323524231207112

Home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths. A focused ethnography DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01303-4

Meaning of hospice care: perceptions of patients and families DOI: 10.1177/10499091221149702

Measurement and documentation of quality indicators for the end-of-life care of hospital patients DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01299-x

Nonphysical suffering: an under-resourced and key role for hospice and palliative care social workers DOI: 10.1080/15524256.2023.2272590

Nurses’ perceptions of the challenges involved in providing of end-of-life care to people with heart failure: a context-based study DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01305-2

Population-level quality indicators of end-of-life-care in an aged care setting: Rapid systematic review DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2023.105130

Preclinical and clinical medical student attitudes toward the care of the dying: testing the 9-item version of the Frommelt Attitude toward the Care of the Dying scale DOI: 10.1177/10499091231151236

Prevalence, associated factors and adverse outcomes of demoralization in cancer patients DOI: 10.1177/10499091231154887

Sociodemographic factors associated with do-not-resuscitate order utilization in the surgical intensive care unit: an observational study DOI: 10.1177/10499091221147914

Too close for comfort? Attitudes of gynecologic oncologists toward caring for dying patients DOI: 10.1177/10499091221145165

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Oct, Nov); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Jan); BMC Palliative Care (Nov); Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care (Nov); OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying (Nov); Palliative Care and Social Practice (Nov)

November 2023

Antidepressant use during hospice patients' final months on routine home care DOI: 10.1177/10499091221134028

Association between physicians’ characteristics and their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding advance care planning DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01253-x

Challenges in pastoral care practice in euthanasia: a concept mapping study among Dutch protestant pastors DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2023.2168795

The experiences and needs of hospice care nurses facing burnout: a scoping review DOI: 10.1177/10499091221141063

Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of the management of people with palliative care needs in the emergency department of a UK hospital DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01248-8

Home-based care for people living with dementia at the end of life: the perspective of experts DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01251-z

Hospital culture and intensity of end-of-life care at 3 academic medical centers DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2450

“I didn’t know it was going to be like this”: unprepared for end-of-life care - the experiences of care aides care in long-term care DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01244-y

Missed opportunities to ease suffering: an explanatory model of occupational therapy utilization in end-of-life care DOI: 10.1177/10499091221143917

Multidisciplinary end-of-life care for a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis requesting euthanasia 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01286-2

A new scale assessing the stressors and rewards of children’s hospice work DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01246-w

Preferences and end of life care for residents of aged care facilities: a mixed methods study DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01239-9

The relationship between multiple chronic conditions and physician visits in advance care planning activities DOI: 10.1177/10499091221136854

The specialty chaplain on the palliative care team: a narrative review DOI: 10.1177/10499091221134021

Survival and long-term outcomes of children who survived after end-of-life decisions in a neonatal intensive care unit DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113422

This is us: an analysis of mediated family communication at end-of-life DOI: 10.1177/00302228211036307

What the doctor would prescribe: physician experiences of providing voluntary assisted dying in Australia DOI: 10.1177/00302228211033109

Why people think they might hasten their death when faced with irremediable health conditions compared to why they actually do so DOI: 10.1177/00302228211033368

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Sep); BMC Palliative Care (Sep); Death Studies (issues 10); JAMA Internal Medicine (Aug); JAMA Pediatrics (Aug); Lancet (5-11 Aug); OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying (Sep)