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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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May 2025

Advance care planning, end-of-life preferences, and burdensome care: a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial

Antibiotic use at the end of life: current practice and ways to optimize

Associated factors of worrying about loneliness before death

Association of palliative care timing with end-of-life quality in children with heart disease

Beliefs and emotions underpin community attitudes towards voluntary assisted dying in Australia

Bereaved caregivers' experiences of end of life care for people with advanced heart failure: a narrative synthesis

Beyond the diagnosis: a deep dive into the end stage liver disease experience from the patient perspective

The color of death: an exploration of the effect of race and religion dimensions on attitudes toward euthanasia

Demoralization syndrome in end-of-life cancer patients: a qualitative study

Diversity in advance care planning and end-of-life conversations: discourses of healthcare professionals and researchers

Does spiritual well-being affect death anxiety and psychological resilience in cancer patients?

End of life outcomes following comfort care orders: a single center experience

End-of-life symptoms and symptom management in older adults with stroke versus cancer

How do patients with advanced cancer and family caregivers accommodate one another in decision-making?

Impairments of human dignity at the end of life quantitatively assessed by health care professionals

Interview results from a telehealth hospice intervention for children and young adults with cancer

Intra-family end-of-life conflict: findings of a research investigation to identify its incidence, cause, and impact

'It's not like in the films': bereaved people's experiences of the deathbed vigil

Multimodal interventions for cachexia management (new Cochrane intervention review)

New faces at the bedside: death doulas, vigilers, and companions

Reducing racial disparities at end-of-life: using narratives to build trust and promote advance care planning

The relationship between perception of good death with clinical competence of end-of-life care in critical care nurses

Stop asking how much information your patient wants before discussing serious news

Views on assisted suicide and religious beliefs

We must express our faith! The impact of religion and spirituality on end-of-life surrogate decision making

Whose choice? A qualitative inquiry into professionals' moral positions on euthanasia in Belgium

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, The (Apr-Jun); Cochrane Library (Mar-Apr); JAMA Internal Medicine (Feb); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Apr-May); Omega (Mar-May)

March 2025

Acceptability of nursing support for patients with terminal cancer and their families: a Delphi study

Attention to the values, wishes and needs of patients with advanced cancer by hospital clinicians

Barriers to serious illness conversations among patients with advanced cancer: a qualitative study

Clinician communication in hospice: constructions of reality throughout the end-of-life process

“Death is as much a part of life as living”: attitudes and experiences preparing for death from older adults with sickle cell disease

Digitally recording comfort observations in the last days of life

Effectiveness of music therapy, aromatherapy, and massage therapy on patients in palliative care with end-of-life needs: a systematic review

End-of-life care of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

Factors influencing family members in choosing the preferred place of death for hospitalized dying older patients

Impact of a criteria-based inpatient palliative oncology consultation model on end-of-life outcomes

Impact of diagnosis nondisclosure on quality of dying in cancer patients: a bereavement study

Impact of implementing serious illness conversations across a comprehensive cancer center using an interdisciplinary approach

Ketamine use for palliative care in the austere environment: is ketamine the path forward for palliative care?

“Nobody wants to take about it, especially in this building”: a qualitative study of how people living in permanent supportive housing approach end-of-life care

A phase II study about the efficacy and safety of the continuous intravenous infusion of ketamine as adjuvant to opioids in terminally ill cancer patients with refractory cancer pain (CIVIK trial)

Preferred place of death discussions: are they informing and empowering patients and their family caregivers?

Recommendations for psychosocial support for long-distance caregivers of terminally ill patients

Sights and sounds of respiratory changes during hospice death vigils: hospice caregivers’ experience

A survey of Jewish attitudes and experiences relating to end-of-life care and the “right to die”

A systematic review of barriers and facilitators to implementing assisted dying: a qualitative evidence synthesis of professionals’ perspectives

Use of essential medicines for pain relief and palliative care: a global consensus approach

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, The (Feb-Mar); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Jan-Mar); Omega (Feb)

January 2025

Application of terror management theory to end-of-life care decision-making: a narrative literature review

The central role of housing key workers in supporting healthcare interactions for people experiencing homelessness and implications for palliative care: a qualitative study

Continuum: a postdischarge supportive care intervention for hospitalized patients with advanced cancer

Death anxiety in patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers

The effect of the care behaviors of nurses working in intensive care clinics of moral distress experienced during end of life patient care

End-of-life care from the perspectives of patients with cancer and their nurses: a qualitative study

Factors influencing the survival time of patients with advanced cancer at the end of life: a retrospective study

Incidence of death anxiety in palliative care: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A mixed methods analysis of standardized documentation of serious illness conversations within an electronic health record module during hospitalization

Music therapy intervention to reduce symptom burden in hospice patients: a descriptive study

Nurses’ perceptions on good death and their attitudes towards the care of dying individuals

Palliative and end-of-life care interventions with minoritized populations in the US with serious illness: a scoping review

Palliative care consults for clinician distress: part of the job?

Palliative sedation at the end of life: prevalence, characteristics and possible determinants

Predictors of specialty outpatient palliative care utilization among persons with serious illness

The relationship between the attitudes of nursing students towards providing care for a dying patient and their empathic tendencies

Towards a crisis management playbook: hospice and palliative care team members’ views amid COVID-19

Utilization of palliative radiation in pediatric oncology patients during the end-of-life (EOL)

A window of opportunity for ICU end-of-life care—a retrospective multicenter cohort study

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Nov); American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, The (Jan); BMC Palliative Care (Dec); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Dec); Omega (Nov-Dec)

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