Context Early integrated palliative care improves quality of life, but palliative care programs
are underutilized. Psychoeducational interventions explaining palliative care may increase …

Background Specialist palliative care is often provided late in the patient's disease trajectory
in response to uncontrolled symptoms. Shifting from this reactionary illness-stress paradigm …

Importance Patient satisfaction is a crucial indicator for assessing quality of care in
healthcare settings. However, patient satisfaction benchmark for cancer hospitals in China is …

Context Patients with advanced cancer often worry about dying. Less is known about the
role of worry in decision making regarding future care. Objectives To explore relationships …

Objective Even when medical treatments are limited, supporting patients' coping strategies
could improve their quality of life. Greater understanding of patients' coping strategies, and …

Background: Little is known on symptom burden, psychosocial needs, and perception of
prognosis in advanced lung cancer patients at the time of diagnosis, although early …

Impact of Palliative Care Dose Intensity on Outcomes for Patients with Cancer | The
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Context: Prognosis communication is one hypothesized mechanism by which effective
palliative care (PC) promotes preference-concordant treatment near end of life (EOL), but …

Palliative care (PC) is a fundamental component of the cancer care trajectory. Its primary
focus is on “the quality of life of people who have a life-threatening illness, and includes pain …

Background Patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) assessing quality of life (QOL) and symptom
burden correlate with clinical outcomes in patients with cancer. However, to the authors' …