Simple Summary Pain associated with cancer diagnoses is a serious concern and one of
the most common symptoms reported by cancer patients. The insufficient relief of cancer …

Patients with heart failure have comparable illness burden and palliative care needs to
those with cancer. However, few of them are offered timely palliative care. One main barrier …

Background & aims The benefits of artificial nutrition and hydration in patients with advanced
cancer remain unknown. Therefore, we conducted a prospective study to evaluate effects of …

Palliative care has developed mainly in the field of oncology in Japan. However, it is
primarily intended to provide all patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses …

Background The increasing burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in developing
countries is driving attention to palliative care services. Identification of disease-specific …

Purpose Hospital-based palliative care teams (HPCTs) are widespread internationally, but
multicenter studies about their effectiveness, using patient-reported outcomes (PROs), are …

Background Symptom burdens tend to increase for patients with cancer and their families
over the disease trajectory. There is still a lack of evidence on the associations between …

Aims Patients with heart failure (HF) may have variable unrecognized symptom burdens. We
sought to investigate the details, determinants, and prognostic significance of symptom …

Context Parenteral morphine is widely used for dyspnea of imminently dying cancer patients
(terminal dyspnea). However, the efficacy of other opioids such as oxycodone remains …

Background: Continuous deep sedation is ethically controversial with respect to whether it
shortens a patient's life. Aim: To examine whether continuous deep sedation shortens …