Palliative care

RS Morrison, DE Meier - New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 - Mass Medical Soc
… Although a comprehensive review of strategies for assessment and therapy of symptoms is
beyond the scope of this review, Table 1 summarizes approaches to commonly encountered …

[HTML][HTML] Screening for psychological distress in palliative care: a systematic review

P Thekkumpurath, C Venkateswaran, M Kumar… - Journal of pain and …, 2008 - Elsevier
… This systematic review summarizes the evidence for screening for psychological distress in
a palliative care setting. The review includes studies that compare screening questionnaires …

The level of need for palliative care: a systematic review of the literature

PJ Franks, C Salisbury, N Bosanquet… - Palliative …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Palliative care services have developed rapidly over the past … As part of a systematic review
of palliative care, evidence of … review, 64 provided evidence on the need for palliative care

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of predictions of survival in palliative care: how accurate are clinicians and who are the experts?

N White, F Reid, A Harris, P Harries, P Stone - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… Accuracy of categorical estimates in this systematic review ranged from 23% up … systematic
review highlights the heterogeneous nature of studies of prognostic accuracy in palliative care

Education, implementation, and policy barriers to greater integration of palliative care: a literature review

MD Aldridge, J Hasselaar, E Garralda… - Palliative …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… in a systematic review of nursing home end-of-life care, 30 a … impede integrating palliative
care services earlier in caring for … priority on rehabilitative care (eg over end-of-life care) in the …

The changing role of palliative care in the ICU

RA Aslakson, JR Curtis, JE Nelson - Critical care medicine, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… of palliative care in the ICU but, rather, underscored the importance of anticipating and
attending to the palliative care needs of those who survive intensive care … A systematic review of …

Do specialist palliative care teams improve outcomes for cancer patients? A systematic literature review

J Hearn, IJ Higginson - Palliative medicine, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
… The objective of the study was to determine whether teams providing specialist palliative care
improve the health … The study involved a systematic literature review of published research. …

Palliative care interventions for patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MS Diop, JL Rudolph, KM Zimmerman… - Journal of palliative …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
… common strategies with palliative care, we performed a systematic review to assess the
effectiveness of palliative interventions in advanced HF. The systematic search on PubMed …

A systematic review of teaching and learning in palliative care within the medical undergraduate curriculum

M Lloyd-Williams, RDM Macleod - Medical teacher, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… This review suggests that there is little consistency in what medical undergraduates are
taught about palliative care and what teaching there is tends to be ad hoc and is rarely assessed…

Which measurement scales should we use to measure breathlessness in palliative care? A systematic review

S Dorman, A Byrne, A Edwards - Palliative Medicine, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
… The aim is to systematically identify and appraise breathlessness measurement scales, … in
palliative care or which show potential for use. Methods: We undertook systematic searches of …