Purpose A variety of assessment instruments have been created to identify cancer
symptoms. We reviewed systematically cancer symptom assessment instruments published …

Aims Studies suggest that patients with advanced heart failure (HF) have unmet palliative
care (PC) needs. However, many of these studies have been retrospective or based on …

The Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI) was devised and validated in patients with cancer in a
hospice inpatient unit in Japan. The aim of this study was to test its accuracy in a different …

An uncontrolled retrospective study was conducted looking at the use of oral controlled-
release hydromorphone in palliative care patients. Over a 2-year period 55 patients were …

Objective: This article presents a validation study of the Demoralization Scale, a 24-item, 5-
point response questionnaire developed by Kissane et al. in 2004 to assess demoralization …

Background: Specialist palliative care (SPC) services in Ireland are well developed by
international standards. However, standardized information on all patients of SPC services …

Some patients with advanced cancer express the wish for an early death. This may be
associated with depression. We examined the relations between depressive symptoms and …

Context Dysphagia is usually associated with malignancies of the head, neck, and upper
gastrointestinal tract but also occurs in those with tumors outside anatomic swallow regions …

With the recognition that the quality of communication by clinicians with patients can be
influenced by training, a number of approaches to such training have been described in the …

Objective To evaluate a new intervention intended to increase referral rates from the
emergency department (ED) to the palliative medicine service (PMS) in acute hospitals …