期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Cancer impacts both patients and their family caregivers. This study aimed to explore the interdependence between depression and intimacy i......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background In China, there is a culture of death-avoidance and death-denying. Influenced by this distinctive socio-cultural views surrounding death, n......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Most nurses in China have not been trained to take care of end-of-life patients appropriately due to lack of educational resources and insu......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background To develop a questionnaire to evaluate the willingness of Chinese health care workers to implement an advance care planning (ACP) program f......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Little is known about patients' intention for participation in end-of-life decisions (EOLD) in three coastal provinces in southern China. T......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Palliative sedation is consciously reducing the patient's consciousness to alleviate the refractory symptoms. However, studies on palliativ......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Although several studies assessing the needs of advanced cancer patients have been conducted globally, most have focused on a specific type......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Despite increasing recognition of the role played by palliative care (PC) services, the priorities of policymakers in supporting PC remain ......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Signing advance directives (ADs) ensures that terminally ill patients receive end-of-life care, according to their wishes, thereby promotin......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Methadone is commonly considered an alternative opioid treatment for refractory cancer pain. This study aims to investigate the efficacy, s......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Objective Inflammation and malnutrition are common in patients with advanced lung cancer undergoing palliative care, and their survival time is limite......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background and aim Patient deaths are common in the intensive care unit, and a nurse's perception of barriers to and supportive behaviors in end-of-li......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2022; 21 (1)
Background Nurses are one of the most critical members of advance care planning (ACP) discussion. The evaluation of ACP self-efficacy is of great sign......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2021; 20 (1)
Background The modern hospice movement is often recognised as a social movement. However, such understanding is primarily based on historic reflection......
期刊: BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, 2021; 20 (1)
Background In recent years, spiritual well-being has gradually gained the attention of health care providers in China, especially those in oncology de......