Heart failure is a serious condition and equivalent to malignant disease in terms of symptom
burden and mortality. At this moment only a comparatively small number of heart failure …

CONTEXT: The End of Life Care Strategy for England highlights effective communication
between patients and professionals as key to facilitating patient involvement in advance …

Shared decision making for advanced heart failure has become both more challenging and
more crucial as duration of disease and treatment options have increased. High-quality …

Background Caring for dying patients is stressful but an unavoidable responsibility of
nurses. However, little is known about Chinese oncology nurses' experience of caring for …

Background: Physicians consistently overestimate survival for patients with cancer. The
“surprise” question—“Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next year?”—improves …

In patients with advanced cancer, a readiness to address pain and other intolerable
symptoms is a medical and moral imperative [1]. This has been described by Roy as the …

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with advanced kidney disease experience considerable
disability, morbidity, and mortality. Little is known about the impact of physician-patient …

Purpose To determine whether the use of a goals-of-care video to supplement a verbal
description can improve end-of-life decision making for patients with cancer. Methods Fifty …

Studies show that patients want to be more involved in their own health care. Yet insufficient
attention has been paid to the specific competencies of both patients and providers that are …

Background Recognising and knowing how to manage ethical issues and moral dilemmas
can be considered an ethical skill. In this study, ethics of care is used as a theoretical …