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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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November 2024

Advance care planning in patients with suspected or proven COVID: are we meeting our own standards?

Association between oral health status and survival time in terminally ill cancer patients

Bridge the gap: addressing rural end-of-life care disparities and access to hospice services

Challenges in pediatric home-based hospice and palliative care: a case series

Compassionate presence in seriously ill cancer patients

Continuous electrocardiographic monitoring for 24 hours before death in patients with terminal cancer

The conveyor belt for older people nearing the end of life

End-of-life medical decisions: the link between sociodemographic characteristics and treatment preferences

Enhancing end-of-life care with home-based palliative interventions: a systematic review

Exploring pediatric code status, advance care planning, and mode of death disparities at end of life

The impact of climate change on hospice and palliative medicine: a scoping and narrative review

The impact of hospice care structures on care processes: a retrospective cohort study

Management of critical glucose values in hospice

The matter of grief, loss and bereavement in families of those living and dying in residential aged care setting: a systematic review

Opportunities to improve end-of-life care quality among patients with short terminal admissions

Pediatric oncology hospice: a comprehensive review

“Postponing it any later would not be so great": a cognitive interview study of how physicians decide to initiate goals of care discussions in the hospital

Quality of care in the last two years of life for children with complex chronic conditions

Recommendations for deprescribing of medication in the last phase of life: an international Delphi study

Screening for end-of-life in acute hospitals: a cross-sectional survey

Timing of palliative care consultation impacts end of life care outcomes in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, The (Oct-Dec); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); Internal Medicine Journal (Aug); Journal of Climate Change and Health, The (Jul-Aug); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Oct-Nov)

September 2024

Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care

Beliefs, practices, perceptions and motivations of healthcare professionals on medication deprescribing during end-of-life care: a systematic review

Caring for dying patients in the community (BMJ practice pointer)

Dyadic advance care planning: systematic review of patient–caregiver interventions and effects

Family perspectives on end-of-life care after surgery: a qualitative analysis of the veteran affairs bereaved family surveys

How can existential or spiritual strengths be fostered in palliative care? An interpretative synthesis of recent literature

The matter of grief, loss and bereavement in families of those living and dying in residential aged care setting: a systematic review

Medical marijuana for pain management in hospice care as a complementary approach to scheduled opioids: a single arm study

A novel objective measure for terminal delirium: activity scores measured by a sheet-type sensor

An operational definition of end-of-life healthcare: a complex and subjective construct

Providing legal assisted dying and euthanasia services in a global pandemic: lessons for ensuring service continuity

Referrals to palliative care services for hospitalised COVID-19 patients: a systematic literature review

Screening instruments for early identification of unmet palliative care needs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Shifting views on cancer pain management: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

A survey of clinicians who provide aid in dying

Systematic review of common refractory symptoms in the end-of-life situation and its relation with euthanasia

To lose a loved one by medical assistance in dying or by natural death with palliative care: a mixed methods comparison of grief experiences

Use of goals in cancer pain management: a systematic review

What does the general public know about palliative care? A population-based survey

The wish to hasten death in patients with life-limiting conditions: a systematic review

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, The (Sep); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jul); Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Sep); BMJ, The (Aug); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Sep); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Aug-Sep); Omega: Journal of Death and Dying (Aug); Primary Care Diabetes (Jun)

July 2024

Addressing challenges with sedation in end-of-life care 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2023.12.016

The efficacy of hospice-in-place care versus traditional inpatient care 10.1177/10499091231199722

End-of-life and immediate postdeath acute hospital interventions 10.1136/spcare-2021-003511

End-of-life care for older first-generation migrants 10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002617

End-of-life symptoms in adult patients with stroke in the last two years of life 10.1177/10499091231197657   

Family experiences with palliative care in freestanding paediatric hospices 10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003457

Fearing pain at the end of life: a review of advance directives 10.1177/10499091231190063

General practice physicians’ and nurses’ self-reported multidisciplinary end-of-life care 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001852

See also: Facilitators and barriers to general practitioner and general practice nurse participation in end-of-life care 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-002109; General practice nurses and physicians and end of life: models of care 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-002114  

General practice service use at the end-of-life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic 10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0108

Gypsy, Traveller and Roma experiences, views and needs in palliative and end of life care 10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002676

Hospice satisfaction among patients, family, and caregivers 10.1177/10499091231190778

The impact of climate change on hospice and palliative medicine 10.1016/j.joclim.2024.100323

Muslims and end-of-life healthcare in non-Muslim majority nations 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.01.004

Patient and family preferences about place of end-of-life care and death  10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.01.014

The perspectives of hospital doctors about end-of-life care in people with mental illness 10.1111/imj.16294

Physician emotional experience of communication and decision making with end-of-life patients 10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003446

The quality of dying in frail institutionalized older patients after nonoperative and operative management of a proximal femoral fracture 10.1177/10499091231180556

Specialist palliative care use and end-of-life care in patients with metastatic cancer 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.01.029

Status, demand and practice models of palliative day-care clinics and day hospices 10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003171

Supportive relationships between patients and family caregivers in specialist palliative care 10.1136/spcare-2023-004371

Upside down solutions: palliative care and COVID-19 10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002385

Voice of persons with a life-limiting illness in conversation with healthcare professionals 10.1136/spcare-2022-003855

What do we know about patients’ perspectives and expectations relating to palliative and end-of-life care in advanced liver disease? 10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003057

Sources

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, The (Jun-Aug); BJGP Open (Apr); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (May-Jun); Internal Medicine Journal (May); Journal of Climate Change and Health (Jul-Aug); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Apr-May)