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

End-of-Life Care current awareness bulletin

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September 2025

Antibiotics at end of life: where are we now and where are we going? A narrative review

Antimicrobials in serious illness and end-of-life care: lifting the veil of silence

The concept of a good death from the perspectives of nurses caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in intensive care unit

Deathbed visions: hospice palliative care volunteers' experiences, perspectives, and responses

Demoralization, pain, and hope as predictors of desire for death in cancer patients: a cross-sectional study

Differential effects of an Integrated Community-Based End-Of-Life Support Team (ICEST) model for terminally ill older adults on spousal and adult-children caregivers

End-of-life cancer patients' dignity perception before and during COVID-19 pandemic

End-of-life symptoms in persons dying with advanced dementia in the community setting: findings from IN-PEACE

Enhancing person-centred care in the final years of life: insights from emergency department visits and hospitalisations in Victorian residential aged care (2015/16 to 2022/23)

Hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care considerations in geriatric urology

Lived experience of caring for dying Muslim patients in emergency room: a phenomenological study

Loneliness and death anxiety: differences between active and bedridden older men

Loneliness in advanced life-threatening illness: an integrative review

Medical interpreters’ experiences with patients who are near end-of-life and their family members

Primary mental health competencies for hospice and palliative medicine physicians: a Delphi study

A qualitative systematic review about children's everyday lives when a parent is seriously ill with the prospect of imminent death - perspectives of children and parents

Relationship between physician's and nurses' attitudes towards futile treatment and their approach to death and terminally ill patients

Sustaining the workforce: a qualitative study exploring voluntary assisted dying supports and self-care

Using latent profile analysis to understand health practitioners' attitudes toward voluntary assisted dying

Utilization of antibiotics for the treatment of urinary tract infections in end-of-life patients

"We are human too": the challenges of being an end-of-life doula

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, The (Aug); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (May); Emergency Medicine Australasia (Aug); Internal Medicine Journal (Jun); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Aug-Sep); Lancet Infectious Diseases, The (Jul); Omega (Aug)

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)

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