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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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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)

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)

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