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BMC Palliative Care

Ausgabe 1/2016

Inhalt (100 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

How different is the care of terminal pancreatic cancer patients in inpatient palliative care units and acute hospital wards? A nationwide population-based study

Jack P. Wang, Chen-Yi Wu, I-Hsuan Hwang, Chien-Hui Kao, Yi-Ping Hung, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Chung-Pin Li

Open Access Research article

Utilization of palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases near end of life in a population-based cohort

Manpreet S. Tiwana, Mark Barnes, Andrew Kiraly, Robert A. Olson

Open Access Research article

“Sometimes we can’t fix things”: a qualitative study of health care professionals’ perceptions of end of life care for patients with heart failure

Margaret Glogowska, Rosemary Simmonds, Sarah McLachlan, Helen Cramer, Tom Sanders, Rachel Johnson, Umesh T. Kadam, Daniel S. Lasserson, Sarah Purdy

Open Access Research article

Correlation between patient quality of life in palliative care and burden of their family caregivers: a prospective observational cohort study

Katja Krug, Antje Miksch, Frank Peters-Klimm, Peter Engeser, Joachim Szecsenyi

Open Access Research article

Conceptual foundations of a palliative approach: a knowledge synthesis

Richard Sawatzky, Pat Porterfield, Joyce Lee, Duncan Dixon, Kathleen Lounsbury, Barbara Pesut, Della Roberts, Carolyn Tayler, James Voth, Kelli Stajduhar

Open Access Research article

Compassion: a scoping review of the healthcare literature

Shane Sinclair, Jill M. Norris, Shelagh J. McConnell, Harvey Max Chochinov, Thomas F. Hack, Neil A. Hagen, Susan McClement, Shelley Raffin Bouchal

Open Access Research article

Physical activity interests and preferences of cancer patients with brain metastases: a cross-sectional survey

Sonya S. Lowe, Brita Danielson, Crystal Beaumont, Sharon M. Watanabe, Kerry S. Courneya

Open Access Research article

The determinants of home and nursing home death: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Vania Costa, Craig C. Earle, Mary Jane Esplen, Robert Fowler, Russell Goldman, Daphna Grossman, Leslie Levin, Douglas G. Manuel, Shirlee Sharkey, Peter Tanuseputro, John J. You

Open Access Study protocol

Effectiveness of the “Cancer Home-Life Intervention” on everyday activities and quality of life in people with advanced cancer living at home: a randomised controlled trial and an economic evaluation

Å. Brandt, M. S. Pilegaard, L. G. Oestergaard, L. Lindahl-Jacobsen, J. Sørensen, A. T. Johnsen, K. la Cour

Open Access Research article

The feasibility of a train-the-trainer approach to end of life care training in care homes: an evaluation

Andrea Mayrhofer, Claire Goodman, Nigel Smeeton, Melanie Handley, Sarah Amador, Sue Davies

Open Access Study protocol

Protocol: Evaluating the impact of a nation-wide train-the-trainer educational initiative to enhance the quality of palliative care for children with cancer

Kimberley Widger, Stefan Friedrichsdorf, Joanne Wolfe, Stephen Liben, Jason D. Pole, Eric Bouffet, Mark Greenberg, Amna Husain, Harold Siden, James A. Whitlock, Adam Rapoport

Open Access Research article

Physical compared to mental diseases as reasons for committing suicide: a retrospective study

Martin Fegg, Sybille Kraus, Matthias Graw, Claudia Bausewein

Open Access Research article

Interviews with Irish healthcare workers from different disciplines about palliative care for people with Parkinson’s disease: a definite role but uncertainty around terminology and timing

Siobhan Fox, Alison Cashell, W. George Kernohan, Marie Lynch, Ciara McGlade, Tony O’Brien, Sean S. O’Sullivan, Suzanne Timmons

Open Access Reviewer acknowledgement

BMC Palliative Care reviewer acknowledgement 2015

Dirk Krüger

Open Access Research article

Towards integration of palliative care in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review of European guidelines and pathways

Naouma Siouta, Karen van Beek, Nancy Preston, Jeroen Hasselaar, Sean Hughes, Sheila Payne, Eduardo Garralda, Carlos Centeno, Marlieke van der Eerden, Marieke Groot, Farina Hodiamont, Lukas Radbruch, Csilla Busa, Agnes Csikos, Johan Menten

Open Access Research article

Strengthening pharmaceutical systems for palliative care services in resource limited settings: piloting a mHealth application across a rural and urban setting in Uganda

Eve Namisango, Chris Ntege, Emmanuel B. K. Luyirika, Fatia Kiyange, Matthew J. Allsop

Open Access Research article

Identification of hospital patients in need of palliative care – a predictive score

Cornelia Meffert, Gerta Rücker, Isaak Hatami, Gerhild Becker

Open Access Research article

Family caregivers’ accounts of caring for a family member with motor neurone disease in Norway: a qualitative study

Sverre Vigeland Lerum, Kari Nyheim Solbrække, Jan C. Frich

Open Access Research article

Validity, reliability and responsiveness to change of the Italian palliative care outcome scale: a multicenter study of advanced cancer patients

Massimo Costantini, Elisa Rabitti, Monica Beccaro, Flavio Fusco, Carlo Peruselli, Pietro La Ciura, Alessandro Valle, Cinzia Suriani, Maria Alejandra Berardi, Danila Valenti, Felicita Mosso, Piero Morino, Giovanni Zaninetta, Giorgio Tubere, Massimo Piazza, Michele Sofia, Silvia Di Leo, Irene J. Higginson

Open Access Research article

The wish to die among palliative home care clients in Ontario, Canada: A cross-sectional study

Shannon Freeman, Trevor Frise Smith, Eva Neufeld, Kathy Fisher, Satoru Ebihara

Open Access Research article

Integrating patient reported measures as predictive parameters into decisionmaking about palliative chemotherapy: a pilot study

Anna Creutzfeldt, Anna Suling, Karin Oechsle, Anja Mehnert, Djordje Atanackovic, Melanie Kripp, Dirk Arnold, Alexander Stein, Julia Quidde

Open Access Research article

To what degree is palliative care integrated in guidelines and pathways for adult cancer patients in Europe: a systematic literature review

Karen Van Beek, Naouma Siouta, Nancy Preston, Jeroen Hasselaar, Sean Hughes, Sheila Payne, Lukas Radbruch, Carlos Centeno, Agnes Csikos, Eduardo Garralda, Marlieke van der Eerden, Farina Hodiamont, Ildiko Radvanyi, Johan Menten

Open Access Research article

Implementing the care programme for the last days of life in an acute geriatric hospital ward: a phase 2 mixed method study

Rebecca Verhofstede, Tinne Smets, Joachim Cohen, Massimo Costantini, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Luc Deliens

Open Access Research article

The use of reflective diaries in end of life training programmes: a study exploring the impact of self-reflection on the participants in a volunteer training programme

Alison Germain, Kate Nolan, Rita Doyle, Stephen Mason, Maureen Gambles, Hong Chen, Ruthmarijke Smeding, John Ellershaw

Open Access Research article

The size of the population potentially in need of palliative care in Germany - an estimation based on death registration data

Nadine Scholten, Anna Lena Günther, Holger Pfaff, Ute Karbach

Open Access Research article

When parents face the death of their child: a nationwide cross-sectional survey of parental perspectives on their child’s end-of life care

Karin Zimmermann, Eva Bergstraesser, Sandra Engberg, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet, Katrin Marfurt-Russenberger, Nicolas Von der Weid, Chantal Grandjean, Patricia Fahrni-Nater, Eva Cignacco

Open Access Research article

Context, mechanisms and outcomes in end of life care for people with advanced dementia

Nuriye Kupeli, Gerard Leavey, Kirsten Moore, Jane Harrington, Kathryn Lord, Michael King, Irwin Nazareth, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Louise Jones

Open Access Research article

Symptom severity of patients with advanced cancer in palliative care unit: longitudinal assessments of symptoms improvement

Shu-Yu Tai, Chung-Yin Lee, Chien-Yi Wu, Hui-Ya Hsieh, Joh-Jong Huang, Chia-Tsuan Huang, Chen-Yu Chien

Open Access Commentary

Palliative chemotherapy: oxymoron or misunderstanding?

EJ Roeland, TW LeBlanc

Open Access Research article

An exploration of contextual dimensions impacting goals of care conversations in postgraduate medical education

Amanda L Roze des Ordons, Jocelyn Lockyer, Michael Hartwick, Aimee Sarti, Rola Ajjawi

Open Access Study protocol

HOLD study (Home care Obstructive Lung Disease): natural history of patients with advanced COPD

Daniel Gainza Miranda, Eva María Sanz Peces, Alberto Alonso Babarro, Maria Concepción Prados Sánchez, María Varela Cerdeira

Open Access Research article

Developing research priorities for palliative care of people with intellectual disabilities in Europe: a consultation process using nominal group technique

I. Tuffrey-Wijne, M. Wicki, P. Heslop, M. McCarron, S. Todd, D. Oliver, A. de Veer, G. Ahlström, S. Schäper, G. Hynes, J. O’Farrell, J. Adler, F. Riese, L. Curfs

Open Access Research article

End-of-life decisions in acute stroke patients: an observational cohort study

Angelika Alonso, Anne D. Ebert, Dorothee Dörr, Dieter Buchheidt, Michael G. Hennerici, Kristina Szabo

Open Access Research article

Timely identification of palliative patients and anticipatory care planning by GPs: practical application of tools and a training programme

Bregje Thoonsen, Marieke Groot, Stans Verhagen, Chris van Weel, Kris Vissers, Yvonne Engels

Open Access Research article

A palliative care link nurse programme in Mulago Hospital, Uganda: an evaluation using mixed methods

Julia Downing, Mwazi Batuli, Grace Kivumbi, Josephine Kabahweza, Liz Grant, Scott A. Murray, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Mhoira Leng

Open Access Research article

Development and pilot evaluation of a home-based palliative care training and support package for young children in southern Africa

Sara Naomi Naicker, Linda Richter, Alan Stein, Laura Campbell, Joan Marston

Open Access Research article

Mortality in a cohort of complex patients with chronic illnesses and multimorbidity: a descriptive longitudinal study

I. Martín-Lesende, E. Recalde, P. Viviane-Wunderling, T. Pinar, F. Borghesi, T. Aguirre, M. Recio, ME Martínez, J. Asua

Open Access Debate

Of apples and oranges: Lessons learned from the preparation of research protocols for systematic reviews exploring the effectiveness of Specialist Palliative Care

Jan Gaertner, Waldemar Siemens, Barbara A. Daveson, Melinda Smith, Catherine J. Evans, Irene J. Higginson, Gerhild Becker

Open Access Research article

Management of non-ovarian cancer malignant ascites through indwelling catheter drainage

Xiaoli Gu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Menglei Cheng, Minghui Liu, Zhe Zhang, Wenwu Cheng

Open Access Research article

Cultural perspectives of older nursing home residents regarding signing their own DNR directives in Eastern Taiwan: a qualitative pilot study

Hsin-Tzu Sophie Lee, Shu-Chen Cheng, Yu-Tzu Dai, Mei Chang, Wen-Yu Hu

Open Access Research article

A retrospective population based cohort study of access to specialist palliative care in the last year of life: who is still missing out a decade on?

Lorna Rosenwax, Katrina Spilsbury, Beverley A. McNamara, James B. Semmens

Open Access Research article

A qualitative exploration of the collaborative working between palliative care and geriatric medicine: Barriers and facilitators from a European perspective

Gwenda Albers, K. Froggatt, L. Van den Block, G. Gambassi, P. Vanden Berghe, S. Pautex, N. Van Den Noortgate

Open Access Research article

Favored subjects and psychosocial needs in music therapy in terminally ill cancer patients: a content analysis

Pia Preissler, Sarah Kordovan, Anneke Ullrich, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle

Open Access Research article

Integrated palliative care in the Spanish context: a systematic review of the literature

Eduardo Garralda, Jeroen Hasselaar, José Miguel Carrasco, Karen Van Beek, Naouma Siouta, Agnes Csikos, Johan Menten, Carlos Centeno

Open Access Research article

Sedation at the end of life - a nation-wide study in palliative care units in Austria

Sophie Schur, Dietmar Weixler, Christoph Gabl, Gudrun Kreye, Rudolf Likar, Eva Katharina Masel, Michael Mayrhofer, Franz Reiner, Barbara Schmidmayr, Kathrin Kirchheiner, Herbert Hans Watzke

Open Access Research article

Identification and characteristics of patients with palliative care needs in Brazilian primary care

Fernando C. I. Marcucci, Marcos A. S. Cabrera, Anamaria Baquero Perilla, Marilia Maroneze Brun, Eder Marcos L. de Barros, Vanessa M. Martins, John P. Rosenberg, Patsy Yates

Open Access Research article

Caring for frail older people in the last phase of life – the general practitioners’ view

Karin Geiger, Nils Schneider, Jutta Bleidorn, Katharina Klindtworth, Saskia Jünger, Gabriele Müller-Mundt

Open Access Research article

Improving end of life care in care homes; an evaluation of the six steps to success programme

Mary O’Brien, Jennifer Kirton, Katherine Knighting, Brenda Roe, Barbara Jack

Open Access Research article

Factors influencing the uptake of neonatal bereavement support services – Findings from two tertiary neonatal centres in the UK

Jayanta Banerjee, Charanjit Kaur, Sridhar Ramaiah, Rahul Roy, Narendra Aladangady

Open Access Research article

An ethnographic study of strategies to support discussions with family members on end-of-life care for people with advanced dementia in nursing homes

Geena Saini, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Sarah Davis, Nuriye Kupeli, Jane Harrington, Gerard Leavey, Irwin Nazareth, Louise Jones, Kirsten J. Moore

Open Access Research article

Integrated palliative care in Europe: a qualitative systematic literature review of empirically-tested models in cancer and chronic disease

Naouma Siouta, K. Van Beek, M. E. van der Eerden, N. Preston, J. G. Hasselaar, S. Hughes, E. Garralda, C. Centeno, A. Csikos, M. Groot, L. Radbruch, S. Payne, J. Menten

Open Access Research article

Exploring access to end of life care for ethnic minorities with end stage kidney disease through recruitment in action research

Emma Wilkinson, Gurch Randhawa, Edwina Brown, Maria Da Silva Gane, John Stoves, Graham Warwick, Tahira Akhtar, Regina Magee, Sue Sharman, Ken Farrington

Open Access Research article

The effect of bereavement groups on grief, anxiety, and depression - a controlled, prospective intervention study

Ulla Näppä, Ann-Britt Lundgren, Bertil Axelsson

Open Access Research article

Barriers to and facilitators for implementing quality improvements in palliative care – results from a qualitative interview study in Norway

Ragni Sommerbakk, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Aksel Tjora, Stein Kaasa, Marianne Jensen Hjermstad

Open Access Research article

Improving the quality of life of palliative and chronic disease patients and carers in remote Australia with the establishment of a day respite facility

Timothy A. Carey, Kellie Schouten, John Wakerman, John S. Humphreys, Fred Miegel, Simon Murphy, Mick Arundell

Open Access Research article

Mismatch between physicians and family members views on communications about patients with chronic incurable diseases receiving care in critical and intensive care settings in Georgia: a quantitative observational survey

Nana Chikhladze, Elene Janberidze, Mariam Velijanashvili, Nikoloz Chkhartishvili, Memed Jintcharadze, Julia Verne, Dimitri Kordzaia

Open Access Research article

The ‘problematisation’ of palliative care in hospital: an exploratory review of international palliative care policy in five countries

Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott, Clare Gardiner, Christine Ingleton

Open Access Research article

Implementing the first regional hospice palliative care program in Ontario: the Champlain region as a case study

José Pereira, Jocelyne Contant, Gwen Barton, Christopher Klinger

Open Access Research article

Keep in touch (KIT): perspectives on introducing internet-based communication and information technologies in palliative care

Qiaohong Guo, Beverley Cann, Susan McClement, Genevieve Thompson, Harvey Max Chochinov

Open Access Research article

The impact of a simulated intervention on attitudes of undergraduate nursing and medical students towards end of life care provision

Claire Lewis, Joanne Reid, Zara McLernon, Rory Ingham, Marian Traynor

Open Access Research article

A co-design process developing heuristics for practitioners providing end of life care for people with dementia

Nathan Davies, Rammya Mathew, Jane Wilcock, Jill Manthorpe, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Kethakie Lamahewa, Steve Iliffe

Open Access Research article

Improving palliative care in selected settings in England using quality indicators: a realist evaluation

Steve Iliffe, Nathan Davies, Jill Manthorpe, Peter Crome, Sam H Ahmedzai, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Yvonne Engels

Open Access Research article

Resilience and hope during advanced disease: a pilot study with metastatic colorectal cancer patients

Joao Paulo Consentino Solano, Amanda Gomes da Silva, Ivan Agurtov Soares, Hazem Adel Ashmawi, Joaquim Edson Vieira

Open Access Research article

Comfort experience in palliative care: a phenomenological study

Adriana Coelho, Vitor Parola, Miguel Escobar-Bravo, João Apóstolo

Open Access Research article

Community-based pediatric palliative care for health related quality of life, hospital utilization and costs lessons learned from a pilot study

Jeffrey Goldhagen, Mark Fafard, Kelly Komatz, Terry Eason, William C. Livingood

Open Access Research article

Benefits of interventions for respiratory secretion management in adult palliative care patients—a systematic review

Juliano Ferreira Arcuri, Ebun Abarshi, Nancy J. Preston, Jenny Brine, Valéria Amorim Pires Di Lorenzo

Open Access Research article

Patients’ perception of types of errors in palliative care – results from a qualitative interview study

Isabel Kiesewetter, Christian Schulz, Claudia Bausewein, Rita Fountain, Andrea Schmitz

Open Access Research article

Health care professionals’ attitudes regarding palliative care for patients with chronic heart failure: an interview study

Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin, Katharina Seibel, Gerhild Becker, Stefan Köberich

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: A co-design process developing heuristics for practitioners providing end of life care for people with dementia

Nathan Davies, Rammya Mathew, Jane Wilcock, Jill Manthorpe, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Kethakie Lamahewa, Steve Iliffe

Open Access Research article

Patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality in hospice inpatient care, hospice day care, palliative units in nursing homes, and home care: a cross-sectional study

Tuva Sandsdalen, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Reidun Hov, Sevald Høye, Ingrid Rystedt, Bodil Wilde-Larsson

Open Access Study protocol

The last phase of life with dementia in Swiss nursing homes: the study protocol of the longitudinal and prospective ZULIDAD study

Stefanie Eicher, Nathan Theill, Heike Geschwindner, Caroline Moor, Albert Wettstein, Gabriela Bieri-Brüning, Christoph Hock, Mike Martin, Henrike Wolf, Florian Riese

Open Access Research article

Caregiving in ALS – a mixed methods approach to the study of Burden

Miriam Galvin, Bernie Corr, Caoifa Madden, Iain Mays, Regina McQuillan, Virpi Timonen, Anthony Staines, Orla Hardiman

Open Access Research article

Dying among older adults in Switzerland: who dies in hospital, who dies in a nursing home?

Xhyljeta Luta, Radoslaw Panczak, Maud Maessen, Matthias Egger, David C. Goodman, Marcel Zwahlen, Andreas E. Stuck, Kerri Clough - Gorr

Open Access Research article

Case conference primary-secondary care planning at end of life can reduce the cost of hospitalisations

Samantha Hollingworth, Jianzhen Zhang, Bharat Phani Vaikuntam, Claire Jackson, Geoffrey Mitchell

Open Access Research article

End-of-life care of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Kaisa Rajala, Juho T. Lehto, M. Saarinen, E. Sutinen, T. Saarto, M. Myllärniemi

Open Access Research article

Using linked administrative and disease-specific databases to study end-of-life care on a population level

Arno Maetens, Robrecht De Schreye, Kristof Faes, Dirk Houttekier, Luc Deliens, Birgit Gielen, Cindy De Gendt, Patrick Lusyne, Lieven Annemans, Joachim Cohen

Open Access Research article

Reasons for transferral to emergency departments of terminally ill patients - a French descriptive and retrospective study

Pierre Cornillon, Sébastien Loiseau, Bruno Aublet-Cuvelier, Virginie Guastella

Open Access Research article

Family and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of a pilot hospice at home programme for children: a qualitative study

Maria Brenner, Michael Connolly, Des Cawley, Frances Howlin, Jay Berry, Claire Quinn

Open Access Research article

Interventions and decision-making at the end of life: the effect of establishing the terminal illness situation

C. Campos-Calderón, R. Montoya-Juárez, C. Hueso-Montoro, E. Hernández-López, F. Ojeda-Virto, M. P. García-Caro

Open Access Research article

Evaluation of a pilot of nurse practitioner led, GP supported rural palliative care provision

Geoffrey Keith Mitchell, Hugh Edgar Senior, Michael Peter Bibo, Blessing Makoni, Sharleen Nicole Young, John Patrick Rosenberg, Patsy Yates

Open Access Research article

Using telehealth to support end of life care in the community: a feasibility study

Jennifer J. Tieman, Kate Swetenham, Deidre D. Morgan, Timothy H. To, David C. Currow

Open Access Research article

The association between different opioid doses and the survival of advanced cancer patients receiving palliative care

Anon Sathornviriyapong, Kittiphon Nagaviroj, Thunyarat Anothaisintawee

Open Access Research article

Challenges to access and provision of palliative care for people who are homeless: a systematic review of qualitative research

Briony F. Hudson, Kate Flemming, Caroline Shulman, Bridget Candy

Open Access Research article

Strength in numbers: patient experiences of group exercise within hospice palliative care

Lorna Malcolm, Gill Mein, Alison Jones, Helena Talbot-Rice, Matthew Maddocks, Katherine Bristowe

Open Access Research article

Development and validation of a new patient experience tool in patients with serious illness

Karl M. Fernstrom, Nathan D. Shippee, Alissa L. Jones, Heather R. Britt

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