Context Dying patients commonly experience potentially distressing symptoms. Palliative
care guidelines recommend opioids, anticholinergics, antipsychotics, and benzodiazepines …

Purpose Every health care sector including hospice/palliative care needs to systematically
improve services using patient-defined outcomes. Data from the national Australian …

Aims The aim of the study was to identify if nurses and patients equally assessed pain
intensity and patient‐related barriers to pain management in hospitalized patients …

The aim of this study was to explore patients' experiences of using the Integrated Palliative
care Outcome Scale (IPOS) during specialized palliative home care. The study adopted a …

Background: The trajectory of dyspnea has been reported among patients approaching the
end of life. However, patients near death have been dropped from longitudinal studies or …

Objectives Recent years have witnessed the rise of patient-reported outcome measures
(PROMs) in palliative care (PC), particularly those focused on the standardized …

Methods The author performed a literature review and incorporated published literature,
interviewed health care providers experienced in end-of-life care, and drew from her own …

Objective Proxy data collection is a prevalent and important source of information in
palliative medicine, and few studies have evaluated the level of agreement between …

OBJECTIVES Our aim was to (1) describe the clinical characteristics and symptoms of
people diagnosed with dementia at the time of admission to inpatient palliative care; and (2) …

When patients die relatives and healthcare professionals may appreciate the quality of the
dying phase differently, but comparisons are rare. In a cross-sectional study (June 2009 …