Background Non-beneficial treatment is closely tied to inappropriate treatment at the end-of-
life. Understanding the interplay between how and why these situations arise in acute care …

Background Palliative care is a person-centered approach aiming to relieve patient's health-
related suffering and it is often needed when caring for critically ill patients to manage …

Introduction Automated specialty palliative care consultation (SPC) has been proposed as
an intervention to improve patient-centered care in the intensive care unit (ICU). Existing …

Background Adult patients admitted to intensive care units in the terminal phase experience
high symptom burden, increased costs, and diminished quality of dying. There is limited …

Background: Although the culture in burns/critical care units is gradually evolving to support
the delivery of palliative/end of life care, how clinicians experience the end of life phase in …

There is a growing need to integrate palliative care into intensive care units and to develop
appropriate knowledge translation strategies. However, multiple challenges persist in …

Background Specific personality traits may affect the ability of nurses to deal with patient
death. The relationship between personality and death coping self-efficacy (DCS) has rarely …

Background For terminally sick neonates and their families, it's crucial to provide holistic
nursing care that incorporates both curative and palliative care as much as feasible. It is well …

Background Families who perceive themselves as prepared for an impending death
experience reduced psychological burden during bereavement. Understanding which …

BackgroundThis study is aimed to perform the translation and cultural adaptation of the
Neonatal Palliative Care Attitude Scale (NiPCAS) and evaluation of its psychometric …