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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

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November 2025

Agencies displayed by patients, medical teams, and caregivers at the end of life from the perspectives of family members – a qualitative study

The association between coping styles, meaning in life, death preparedness of advanced cancer patients

Breaking with the status quo in end-of-life care through de-implementation

Challenges to timely access to out-of-hours end-of-life medications: a qualitative study in UK primary care

Deprivation is associated with hospital conveyance among patients who are terminally ill

Dexmedetomidine versus midazolam for end-of-life sedation: the DREAMS non-blinded randomized clinical trial

Disclosure practices in Muslim patients and the impact on end-of-life care: a narrative review

Does one session suffice? Evaluation of single-session ethanol ablation for thyroid cysts of varying sizes

End-of-life costs in cancer patients: a systematic review

Healthcare professionals' perspective on supporting patients and family caregivers in end-of-life care decision-making: a qualitative study in specialist palliative care

Healthcare utilization in pediatric cancer patients near the end-of-life

Length of stay by pediatric hospice diagnoses: a retrospective experience from a single center

Living for the moment – how important is it in the end of life?

Loneliness and social isolation in the care of the seriously ill older adult

Management of constipation in people receiving palliative care

A National Core Community Palliative Care Medicines List for managing end-of-life symptoms

Palliative management of breathlessness

Palliative management of depression in advanced cancer

Palliative management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with advanced cancer

Pharmaceutical pitfalls in treating patients with advanced cancer

The relationship between attitudes towards caring for dying patients and self compassion in ICU nurses

Tailoring hospice care to the veteran population

Understanding staff needs for improving end-of-life care in critical care units: a qualitative focus group analysis and service evaluation

Utilization of the No One Dies Alone program to support dying patients

Sources

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care (Sep-Nov); American Journal of Surgery (Oct); Australian Journal of General Practice (Aug-Sep); British Journal of General Practice (Oct); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Emergency Medicine Journal (Sep); Journal of Internal Medicine (Aug); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Oct-Nov); Omega (Sep)

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)

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