ABSTRACT A person trapped in a building engulfed in a raging fire, a person dealing with
severe chronic disease, people dealing with a virus pandemic, and people fighting in a …

Randomized controlled trials have found that palliative medicine specialist-driven
interdisciplinary teams improve physical symptoms, psychosocial and spiritual distress …

Background/Aim: Because aggressive oncological management just prior to death
constitutes a substantial proportion of end-of-life (EOL) costs, we investigated patterns of …

Abstract Background Indigenous Australians diagnosed with cancer have substantially
higher cancer mortality rates compared with non-Indigenous Australians, yet there is a …

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die Verlegung von Patient: innen der Intensivstation (ITS)
auf die Palliativstation (PTS) geht meist mit der Festlegung eines palliativen Konzeptes …

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the competence and educational needs of
Iranian nurses in the field of palliative cancer care. Method: This cross-sectional study was …

For most patients with high-grade glioma, long-term survival remains elusive. Therefore,
quality of life not only in the early phases of the disease but during end of life is of high …

Supporting and managing end of life in emergency departments (EDs) is often difficult and is
becoming increasingly commonplace. Patients who present at the end of life are often …

Context End-of-life care (EOLC) communication is beneficial but underutilized, particularly in
conditions with a variable course such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …

Working alongside local stakeholders, members of the French-African Pediatric Oncology
Group developed a 3-year program to train pediatric oncology teams from 15 French …