Advanced heart failure: guideline‐directed medical therapy, diuretics, inotropes, and palliative care by Daniela Tomasoni, Julie K.K. Vishram‐Nielsen, Matteo Pagnesi, Marianna Adamo, Carlo Mario Lombardi, Finn Gustafsson, Marco Metra

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Social support sources for people with palliative care needs at home: a scoping review by Trudy Schutter, Ian Koper, Kris Vissers, Jeroen Hasselaar

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Job burnout and resilience among palliative care professionals in china: a qualitative study by Fang Tan, Yan Wu, Na Li, Chuan Zhang, Shan Chen, Lan Huang, Yang Chen, Jianjun Jiang, Qian Deng

Subjects: “…Palliative care…”
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Efficacy of a Communication Toolkit to Optimize Palliative Care Communication in the Surgical Intensive Unit by Kathryn Cary, Aubrey Place, Marta McCrum, Joanna Grudziak, Lauren McGuire

“…Data demonstrates patients benefit from the experience of specialty palliative care providers for advance care planning and prioritizing quality of life, regardless of diagnosis or stage of illness. …”
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A nasal mass with an unusual morphology: Transition from palliative care to curative treatment by Apurva D. Mundada, Aekta Shah, Jaya Ghosh, Asawari Patil

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Specialty palliative care use among cancer patients: A population-based study. by J Brian Cassel, Donna McClish, David Buxton, Leanne Yanni, Seth Roberts, Nevena Skoro, Peter May, Egidio Del Fabbro, Danielle Noreika

“…<h4>Background</h4>Rigorous population-based assessments of the use of specialty palliative care (SPC) in the US are rare.<h4>Settings/subjects</h4>This study examined SPC use among cancer patients in a mid-sized metropolitan area in Southeast US.…”
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Validation of a New Instrument for Self-Assessment of Nurses’ Core Competencies in Palliative Care by Kari Slåtten, Ove Hatlevik, Lisbeth Fagerström

“…The instrument has the potential to be used to refine clinical competence in palliative care and be used for the training and evaluation of palliative care nurses.…”
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Role and contribution of the nurse in caring for patients with palliative care needs: A scoping review. by Sue Moran, Maria E Bailey, Owen Doody

“…<h4>Background</h4>The provision of high-quality palliative care is important to nursing practice. However, caring for palliative care patients and their families is challenging within a complex everchanging health environment. …”
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Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus nurse-led telephonic palliative care of older adults with advanced illness by Jeanne Cho, Michael Hill, Corita R Grudzen, Deborah J Shim, Abigail M Schmucker, Keith S Goldfeld, Lauren Southerland, Jeffrey M Caterino, Marie-Carmelle Elie, Robert Swor, Susan E Cohen, Arum Kim, Joseph Lowy, Jennifer S Scherer, Nancy E Bael, Ellin Gafford, Joshua Lakin, Paige Barker, Angela Chmielewski, Jennifer Kapo, Audrey Tan, Rebecca Yamarik, Susan Salz, Stephen Ryan, Anne Kim, Isabel Castro, Amelia Hargrove, Laura Stuecher, Nora Daut, Juanita Booker-Vaughns, Garrett K Chan, J Nicholas Dionne-odom, Patrick Dunn, Robert Galvin, Ernest A Hopkins III, Margaret M Maguire, Neha Reddy Pidatala, Dawn Rosini, Sally Welsh, Karen Jubanyik, Ada L Rubin, Kei Ouchi, Rebecca Murray, Nicole Tang, Marie Bakitas, Abraham Brody, Caroline Blaum, Mara Flannery, Richard Tamirian, Pamela Marsack, Jennifer Bonito, Romilla Batra, Donna C Sadasivan, Eric David Isaacs, Constance L Kizzie-Gillett, William K Vaughan, Pluscedia G Williams, Angela Young-Brinn

“…Introduction Emergency department (ED)-initiated palliative care has been shown to improve patient-centred outcomes in older adults with serious, life-limiting illnesses. …”
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Knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding pediatric palliative care in a teaching nursing institute by Dinabndhu Barad, Kalpana Panda, Soumya Satpathy, Neelanjana Jena, Nirupama Behera, Syed Ghulam Mustafa, Jayeeta Dey, Jami Bikrant Kumar Prusty

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Development, Implementation and Evaluation of A Pain Management and Palliative Care Educational Seminar for Medical Students by Denise Paneduro, Leah R Pink, Andrew J Smith, Anita Chakraborty, Albert J Kirshen, David Backstein, Nicole N Woods, Allan S Gordon

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How effective is undergraduate palliative care teaching for medical students? A systematic literature review by Jason W Boland, Jane Gibbins, Megan E L Brown, Gabrielle M Finn, Angelique Duenas

“…Studies evaluating palliative care teaching interventions with medical students were included.Results 1446 titles/abstracts and 122 full-text articles were screened. 19 studies were included with 3253 participants. 17 of the varied methods palliative care teaching interventions improved knowledge outcomes. …”
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Early Palliative Care Following Aborted Cancer Surgery: Results of a Prospective Feasibility Trial by Jordan M. Cloyd, MD, Rakhsha Khatri, BA, Angela Sarna, BS, Lena Stevens, PhD, Victor Heh, PhD, Mary Dillhoff, MD, Alex Kim, MD, Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, PhD, MPH, Aslam Ejaz, MD, Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio, PhD, Erin Scott, MD, Sachin S. Kale, MD

“…Following aborted cancer surgery, patients have unique care needs that specialized palliative care (PC) providers may be best equipped to manage. …”
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Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important? by Kwok-Ying Chan, Terence Yip, Mau-Kwong Sham, Benjamin Hon-Wai Cheng, Cho-Wing Li, Yim-Chi Wong, Vikki Wai-Kee Lau

“…Here we report a mentally incompetent end stage renal failure (ESRF) patient with frequent emergency visits who made a significant improvement in symptoms control and reduction in casualty visits after introduction of renal palliative care service. Multidisciplinary approach would be useful in this case.…”
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Identification of unmet palliative care needs of nursing home residents: A scoping review protocol. by Patrice Crowley, Mohamad M Saab, Nicola Cornally, Isabel Ronan, Sabin Tabirca, David Murphy

“…Due to these complex characteristics, a high proportion of nursing home residents require palliative care. However, many do not receive palliative care relative to this need resulting in unmet care needs. …”
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Xerostomia: a silent burden for people receiving palliative care – a qualitative descriptive study by Emir Murphy Dourieu, Dominika Lisiecka, William Evans, Patricia Sheahan

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How do palliative care doctors recognise imminently dying patients? A judgement analysis by Nicola White, Priscilla Harries, Adam JL Harris, Victoria Vickerstaff, Philip Lodge, Catherine McGowan, Ollie Minton, Christopher Tomlinson, Adrian Tookman, Fiona Reid, Patrick Stone

“…Objectives To identify a group of palliative care doctors who perform well on a prognostic test and to understand how they make their survival predictions.Design Prospective observational study and two cross-sectional online studies.Setting Phase I: an online prognostic test, developed from a prospective observational study of patients referred to palliative care. …”
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Specialized pediatric palliative care in Italy: where are we going? The Palliped 2022–2023 study by Franca Benini, Anna Mercante, Sara Di Nunzio, Simonetta Papa, the PalliPed 2022-2023 Working Group

Subjects: “…Pediatric palliative care…”
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Health promoting palliative care interventions in African low-income countries: a scoping review by Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Diane Tapp, Samiratou Ouedraogo, Ariane Plaisance, Carol-Anne Hyland-Carignan, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali

“…Background Palliative care (PC) has advanced rapidly since 2005, when the World Health Assembly posited it as an urgent humanitarian need. …”
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Development of specialist palliative care in Dutch hospitals between 2014 and 2020: a repeated survey by N. van Velzen, L. Brom, M. J. D. L van der Vorst, M. L. Kiers, M. F. M. Wagemans, H. Kazimier, M. S. A. Boddaert, N. J. H. Raijmakers, A. Stoppelenburg

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