Context Ensuring clinical practice reflects current evidence is challenging given the rapid
proliferation of new knowledge. Changing entrenched clinical behaviours and facilitating the …

Background: Patients express a variety of needs, some of which are labeled social and
spiritual. Without an in-depth exploration of patients' expressions of these needs, it is difficult …

BACKGROUND: Attrition is common among supportive care/palliative oncology clinical
trials. However, to the authors' knowledge, few studies to date have documented the …

CONTEXT: Multiple organizations have raised concerns about the lack of standard
definitions for terminology in the supportive and palliative oncology literature. OBJECTIVES …

Patient-defined factors that are important at the end of life include being physically
independent for as long as possible, good symptom control, and spending quality time with …

Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are a heterogeneous group.
Nevertheless, there are sufficient unifying characteristics to form a distinct clinical entity …

There has been a paradigm shift in medicine away from tradition, anecdote and theoretical
reasoning from the basic sciences towards evidence-based medicine (EBM). In palliative …

Background: Palliative medicine has made rapid progress in establishing its scientific and
clinical legitimacy, yet the evidence base to support clinical practice remains deficient in …

Background In the rapidly developing specialty of palliative care, literature reviews have
become increasingly important to inform and improve the field. When applying widely used …

The current state of the palliative oncology literature is unclear. We examined and compared
the quantity, research design, and research topics of palliative oncology publications in the …