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Palliative care

Nurses’ high valuation of palliative care versus patient and family misconceptions: A mixed-approach study of Advanced Care Planning implementation in China

Chenyan Liang, Suzhen Lv, Jia Song, Leiwen Tang

Providing psychological support to people impacted by terminal illness: A mixed methods study of hospice staff perceived competence, confidence and training needs

Fatema Zavery, Sulafa Fakhreddin, [ ... ], Anne Finucane

Low survival in younger adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in Tanzania linked to high disease burden and socioeconomic factors

Michelle Munroe, Clara Chamba, [ ... ], Ahlam Nasser

Supportive care needs and quality of life among cancer patients in China: A cross-sectional study

Bingshuang Wang, Xinyan Hu, [ ... ], Xiaoliang Ren

Unmet supportive care needs of young women with breast cancer in Chile during follow-up stage after treatment: A qualitative study

Francisca Vezzani, Báltica Cabieses, [ ... ], Iderta Carvajal

Mental health-related, existential, and biological factors are associated with the desire to hasten death in Mexican cancer patients undergoing palliative care: A single-center study

Oscar Rodríguez-Mayoral, Edith Monreal-Carrillo, [ ... ], Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Barriers and facilitators to palliative care service utilization in Ethiopia: A qualitative systematic review, 2025

Sadik Abdulwehab, Frezer Kedir

Navigating life when a loved one’s (euthanasia) death is near: A narrative interview study from the Netherlands

Bernadette Roest, Megan Milota, Carlo Leget

Implementation of a clinical interview guide to Multidimensional needs assessment in Palliative care (MAP): A multicenter mixed-methods feasibility study

Iris Crespo, Blanca Goni-Fuste, [ ... ], Joaquim Julià-Torras

“The message hurts, but it would be worse if nothing was said” – Communicating severe illness and the imminence of death to patients with end stage heart failure and their families – A longitudinal interview study

Annika Pohl, Maria Liljeroos, Tiny Jaarsma

Congruence between preferred and actual place of death and its association with quality of death and dying in advanced cancer patients: A nationwide survey in Japan

Mariko Shutoh, Tatsuya Morita, [ ... ], Mitsunori Miyashita

Futility in healthcare among Mexican female patients with breast cancer in advanced stage: The patient perspective

María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando, Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres, Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Outcomes of complex decongestive therapy in managing upper limb lymphedema in female breast cancer patients at a palliative care unit of a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh

Rifat Jahan, A.K.M. Motiur Rahman Bhuiyan, [ ... ], Nisha Mortuja Aktar

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