Background The purpose of this scoping review was to describe how three tenants of patient-
centered care provision: communication, partnership, and health promotion are addressed …

Background: Many patient-reported outcome measures have been developed in the past
two decades, playing an increasingly important role in palliative care. However, their routine …

Importance Advance care planning can improve patient-centered care and potentially
reduce intensification of care at the end of life. Objectives To inquire about patients' advance …

Objective. The aim of this systematic review is to identify the perceived factors hindering or
facilitating GPs in engaging in advance care planning (ACP) with their patients about care at …

Objective Encountering dying patients with implicit existential questions requires the nurses
to have positive and comfortable attitude to talking about existential issues. This paper …

Introduction Although many terminally ill people are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU)
at the end of life, their care is often inadequate because of poor communication by …

Background: There is increasing demand for primary care practitioners to play a key role in
palliative care delivery. Given this, it is important to understand their perceptions of the …

Background: Planning ahead may be particularly relevant in dementia considering patients'
cognitive decline and difficulty to predict the course of the dementia. Objective: To identify …

Background Dementia has become a major public health issue worldwide due to its rapidly
increasing prevalence and an increasing number of dementia-related deaths in long-term …

Importance The Institute of Medicine recently called for systematic improvements in clinician-
led conversations about goals, values, and care preferences for patients with serious and …