Aggressiveness of care at the end-of-life in cancer patients and its association with psychosocial functioning in bereaved caregivers

J Tönnies, M Hartmann, D Jäger, C Bleyel… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Study Registration https://www. drks. de/drks_web/navigate. do? navigationId= trial.
HTML&TRIAL_ID= DRKS00022837, DRKS00022837. Background Intensified oncological …

Goals of Care Among Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers in the Last Years of Life

S Ozdemir, I Chaudhry, C Malhotra, I Teo… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Understanding goals of care for terminally ill patients at the end of life is crucial
to ensure that patients receive care consistent with their preferences. Objectives To …

Patient, caregiver, and oncologist predictions of quality of life in advanced cancer: Accuracy and associations with end‐of‐life care and caregiver bereavement

M Hoerger, R Gramling, R Epstein, JJ Fenton… - Psycho …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Informed treatment decision‐making necessitates accurate prognostication,
including predictions about quality of life. Aims We examined whether oncologists, patients …

Associations of death‐preparedness states with bereavement outcomes for family caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients

FH Wen, WC Chou, MM Hou, PJ Su… - Psycho …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Death preparedness involves cognitive prognostic awareness and emotional
acceptance of a relative's death. Effects of retrospectively assessed cognitive prognostic …

The end‐of‐life experience: Modifiable predictors of caregivers' bereavement adjustment

MM Garrido, HG Prigerson - Cancer, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The objective of the current study was to determine the best set of predictors
of psychological disorders, regrets, health‐related quality of life, and mental health function …

Evolution and predictors of patient–caregiver concordance on states of life-sustaining treatment preferences over terminally ill cancer patients' last six months of life

FH Wen, WC Chou, JS Chen, WC Chang… - Journal of Palliative …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Background: Patient–caregiver concordance on end-of-life (EOL) care preferences is poor,
but changes in this concordance have not been longitudinally explored as patient death …

Caregiver bereavement outcomes in advanced cancer: associations with quality of death and patient age

K Mah, N Swami, A Pope, CC Earle… - Supportive Care in …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose We investigated relationships between domains of quality of dying and death in
patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers' bereavement outcomes and the …

Patient awareness of prognosis, patient–family caregiver congruence on the preferred place of death, and caregiving burden of families contribute to the quality of life …

ST Tang, TW Liu, CM Tsai, CH Wang… - Psycho …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: The main goal of end‐of‐life care is to achieve the best quality of life (QOL) for
patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of (1) the patients' …

Early integrated palliative care and reduced emotional distress in cancer caregivers: reaching the “hidden patients”

M Hoerger, BD Cullen - The oncologist, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Caregivers of patients with advanced cancer are affected physically and emotionally by the
patient's illness and are too often overlooked by health care systems. This commentary …

A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer

C Malhotra, F Bundoc, I Chaudhry, I Teo, S Ozdemir… - BMC Palliative Care, 2022 - Springer
Background Many patients with a solid metastatic cancer are treated aggressively during
their last month of life. Using data from a large prospective cohort study of patients with an …