… settings do change the quality of life of patients they care for, but there are no … in patient-focused
palliative care and research. Systematic quality of life assessment in all palliative care …

… for patients and families. The aims of the present study were to assess the concerns of
patients attending a palliative care clinic, to examine physicians’ ratings of patient concerns, to …

… in patients with advanced cancer as a result of a palliative care … consultations seen at our
outpatient palliative care clinic [4]. … , patients achieved significant improvements in most cancer-…

This paper describes a phenomenological study which sought to explore the meaning of
hope to patients with cancer who are receiving palliative care. A purposive sample of four …

… This study showed that cancer patients at home in a palliative phase of disease experienced
a wide variety of problems. Any topic in the list of 90 potential problems that forms the …

… patients about palliative care. Because there are few rigorous outcome studies of communication
about palliative care… research on physician–patient communication from other contexts (…

… The purpose of this study was to describe the relative role of predictors of home death in
a cohort of palliative care patients with advanced cancer. A questionnaire was created as a …

… by palliative care clinicians has been supported by the evidence in this study that has
demonstrated that patients report the pleasure they receive from drinking. No association …

… palliative care patients. … palliative care cancer patients. The purpose was to describe
perceptions of strategies that foster hope of elderly palliative care patients with advanced cancer. …

… Specialist palliative care services have developed to meet these needs, but their … palliative
care teams achieve their aims and improve outcomes for patients with advanced cancer and …