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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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July 2025

Advance care planning among adult patients and their end-of-life care preferences

Attitudes toward and experience with assisted-death services and psychological implications for health practitioners: a narrative systematic review

Canadian undergraduate perspectives on medical assistance in dying for mental illness: does psychiatric illness type, age, and exposure to information influence acceptance of MAiD?

Cancer-related stigmatization, quality of life, and fear of death among newly diagnosed cancer patients

Deep continuous sedation until death and experience of relatives and healthcare providers: a systematic review

Dying a 'good' death: the work, care, and support of end-of-life doulas

Dying matters in the emergency department

Emergency clinician perceptions of end-of-life care in Irish emergency departments: a cross-sectional survey

Examining the relationship between rural and urban clinicians' familiarity with patients and families and their comfort with palliative and end-of-life care communication

Factors influencing discharges to hospice for patients with late-stage Huntington's disease

Family caregiver's depression, confidence, satisfaction, and burden regarding end-of-life home care for people with end-stage dementia

Family-integrated advance care planning for cancer patients: a mixed-methods feasibility study

The good death among black, indigenous, and/or people of color: which aspects of a good death are most important?

Location of death in developed countries: are hospitals a primary place of death and dying now?

Mental health service integration in hospice organizations: a national survey of hospice clinicians and medical leadership

Practice of palliative sedation in patients followed by a palliative home care team

Preventive medication deprescribing in advanced cancer patients approaching end of life

Undergraduate students' attitudes towards medical assistance in dying for mental illness

Understanding the behavioral health needs of hospice patients and their family caregivers: perspectives of hospice medical directors

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, The (Jul); Emergency Medicine Journal (May); Internal Medicine Journal (Apr); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Jun); Omega (Jun)

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)

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