OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Community Engagement in Palliative Care: A Lesson From the Lakshadweep Islands	182
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value	177
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots	86
Table of Contents	72
Feasibility of Animal-Assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer (S560)	72
PC-FACS July 2022	67
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)	62
Broad Needs Assessment of Pain Education in Graduate Medical Education	57
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)	51
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)	47
“I Want to Stop the Machines, But I CAN'T Tell My Family.” When Patients Communicate Different Treatment Goals to Providers and to Family Members (ODS7)	46
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)	45
A Holy Moment	44
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-19	44
Speaking the Unspoken	44
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program	40
Parent Priorities in End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (CO202C)	40
Influence of Income, Education, and Medicaid Expansion on Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using the National Cancer Database	37
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment	36
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)	36
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care	35
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar	35
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder	34
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)	33
Comparing the Timing and Use of Interventions and Advance Care Planning Between Chinese American and White American ICU Decedents at a Tertiary Medical Center (Sch419)	33

A Scoping-Review of Nurse-Led Research to Improve Advance Care Planning: A Call to Action (GP747)	33
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)	32
Palliative Care Needs in Breast Cancer Patients Entering Inpatient Hospice in Western Kenya	31
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke	30
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)	29
Leading from the Heart	28
Editorial Board	28
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)	28
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)	27
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)	27
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)	27
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration	26
Advancing Interprofessional Hospice and Palliative Care Teamwork with Entrustable Professional Activities (SA300)	25
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients	25
The 7 On/7 Off: A Useful Alternative Scheduling Model for Hospital-Based Inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultation Services (QI436)	25
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)	24
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot	24
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)	24
Mental Healthcare Delivery in Palliative Care: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives	24
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)	24
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients	23
Assessment of a Zero-Shot Large Language Model in Measuring Documented Goals-of-Care Discussions	23
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment	23
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review	23
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation	22
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge	22
Table of Contents	22
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains	22
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients	22
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus	21
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report	21
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain	21
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department	21
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital	21
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?	21
The Paradox of Palliphobia	21
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care	21
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)	21
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons	21
Table of Contents	21
Design and Implementation of a Primary Palliative Care Education Program for Hematology-Oncology Advanced Practice Providers: Insights From a Three-Year Cohort	20
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review	20
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience	20
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients	19
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?	19
A Kid at Heart: Applying Pediatric Skills to Caring for Adults	19
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care	19
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)	19
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study	19
Guided Mindfulness of Death to Reduce Fear of Death in Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Study	19

Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review	19
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations	19
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation	18
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care	18
A Decade of Studying Drivers of Disparities in End-of-Life Care for Black Americans: Using the NIMHD Framework for Health Disparities Research to Map the Path Ahead	18
Opioid Conversion in Adults With Cancer: MASCC-ASCO-AAHPM-HPNA-NICSO Guideline Clinical Insights	18
Goal-Concordant Care in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Receiving Palliative Care	18
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure	17
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study	17
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team	17
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	17
Editorial Board	17
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning	17
The Pediatric Cancer Care Experience (PACE) Questionnaire: Development and Validation of a Novel Instrument	17
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care	16
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study	16
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer	16
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.	16
Letter to the Editor. A Response to: Palliative Management of Inoperable Malignant Bowel Obstruction: Prospective, Open Label, Phase 2 Study at an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center	16
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder	16
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report	16
PC-FACS September 6, 2024	16
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers	16
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine	16
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey	16
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer	15
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support	15
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?	15
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED	15
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department	15
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury	15
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions	15
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain	15
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery	15
ACP Documentation Older Adult	15
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians	14
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures	14
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences	14
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)	14
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility	14
For Betty and the Magic That is You	14
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)	14
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns	14
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)	14
Differences in Pain Episodes Among Children With Complex Chronic Conditions at End of Life	14
Optimizing the Global Nursing Workforce to Ensure Universal Palliative Care Access and Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering Worldwide	14
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs	14
“Scarcity,” “Futility,” and “Moral Distress”: A Case Analysis of the Challenges of Sound Ethical Description	14
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)	14
Editorial Board	14
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer	13
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis	13
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy	13
Editorial Board	13
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)	13
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)	13
The Evolving Role of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy in the Palliative Management of Bone Metastases (Sch465)	13
Palliative Care Pharmacist Interventions Surrounding Medication Prescribing Across Care Transitions (IMPACT) (RP306)	13
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle	13
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)	13
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey	13
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning	13
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)	13
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)	13
Table of Contents	13
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)	13
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)	13
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)	12
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life	12
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study	12
“That Little Bit of Time”: Transition-to-Hospice Perspectives from Hospice Staff and Bereaved Family (S531)	12
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)	12
Inpatients with Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis (S558)	12
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)	12
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)	12
PC-FACS December 1, 2021	12
“Advocating for What We Need”: A CBPR Approach to Advance Care Planning in the San Francisco Latinx Elder Community (Sch401)	12
A Tale of Two Pandemics: Cancer Coping and Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic (RP402)	12
Nursing Facility Provider Perceptions of Appropriate Use of POLST (RP304)	12
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)	12

A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality	12
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)	12
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)	12
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues	12
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)	12
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)	12
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine	12
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100)	12
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care	12
How Many Cancer Patients Need Palliative Care? A Population-Based Study	12
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU	11
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making	11
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)	11
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)	11
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange	11
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder	11
Ideal Timing and Perceived Barriers for Palliative Care Integration for Children with Cancer in China	11
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"	11
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease	11
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care	11
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites	11
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting	11
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis	11
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)	11
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care	11
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care	11
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace	11
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?	11
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	11
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness	11
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Using Collaborative Care to Increase Access to Community-Based Supportive Oncology (SA310)	11
Getting to the Root of the Symptom: Differentiating Between Adverse Drug Effects and Impending Death (FR237)	11
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care	11
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving	11
Design Considerations for Medicinal Cannabis Clinical Trials in People Receiving Palliative Care	10
Bereaved Family Quality of Life Varies With Comorbid Psychological Distress and ICU-Care Quality	10
US Medicare Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Workforce and Service Delivery in 2008-2020	10
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients	10
A Core Outcome Set for Interventions to Prevent and/or Treat Delirium in Palliative Care	10
Buprenorphine as a Treatment for Severe Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy – A Case Report	10
PC-FACS, November 7, 2024	10
Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Different Clinical Profiles Among Patients With Advanced Heart Failure	10
Parental Attitudes Towards Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: Insights From Bereaved Families	10
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)	10
Disparities in Therapeutic Alliance Among Latino Immigrants With Advanced Cancer	10
Table of Contents	10
Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Use for Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) in Pediatric Oncology: A Ten-Year Review (GP750)	10
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher	10
Table of Contents	10
African Americans Communities Speak to Healthcare Providers: Clinical Practice Outcomes	10
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates	10
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)	10
The Use of Ketamine for End-of-Life Symptom Control in a Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Neurologic Disease (CS362)	10
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)	10
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center	9
All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil	9
Targeted Therapy: Improving the Delivery of Palliative Care Through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Models	9
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence	9
Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science (SA303A)	9
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care	9
“There Is No Good Decision”: Understanding Why Parents Decline Home Mechanical Ventilation for Their Children (FR264)	9
“It Really Brings Back the Human Side of Medicine”: Implementing Serious Illness Conversations in Community Health Centers Serving Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients (VF202)	9
We Are Not Heroes; Elevating the Discourse of Burnout in Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses (HPCNs) in the Pre/Post COVID Era: A Scoping Review (S504)	9
Exploring Health Care Providers’ Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure at Home: A Qualitative Study (GP726)	9
Buprenorphine 2.0: Why, When, and How to Prescribe Buprenorphine in Patients with Serious Illness (FR258)	9
PC-FACS February 2023	9
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)	9
Effectiveness of an Algorithmic Approach to Ventilator Withdrawal at the End of Life (SAPLEN 101)	9
SOPHIE: Testing a Virtual, Interactive, AI-Augmented End-of-Life Communication Training Tool (RP122)	9
Implementing a Clinical Pathway for Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies	9
Table of Contents	9
Using a Palliative Extubation Simulation-Based Learning Model to Teach Key Palliative Medicine Topics and Skills Across Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education (Sch472)	9
AAHPM Pediatric Competencies: Developing Pediatric Learning Objectives for Adult-Track HPM Fellows and Finding the “Sweet Spot” in Length of Training (TH131)	9
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)	9
Improving the Care of Diverse Patient Populations: Let's Advance the Dialogue for Strategies to Address and Navigate the Elephant in the Room (P05)	9
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer	9
Enhancing Virtual Communication Skills Among Medical Learners: A COVID-19 Telemedicine Goals of Care Standardized Encounter (QI430)	9
Editorial Board	9
Comparing Pediatric Nephrologists’ and Palliative Care Physicians’ Perspectives on Palliative Care for Children with End-Stage Kidney Disease: A National Survey Study (GP727)	9
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)	9
Daily Social Support, Social Isolation, and the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults Living with Cancer (GP116)	9
Predictors of Symptom Reporting Concordance Between Patient and Provider in the Context of Cancer and Multimorbidity (GP725)	9
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?	9
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)	9
Identifying Opportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Family Narrative Reports (FR214C)	9
SOGI and Beyond: Equitable Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities (FR220)	9
Dyadic vs Individual Supportive Care Delivery for Family Caregivers of Primary Brain Tumor Patients: Results of a 3-Arm Yoga Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (RP420)	9
Is There a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease (FR234)	9
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy	9
Truly Integrated Support for Cancer Patients: A Palliative Care Clinic Model (ODS2)	9
Tool to Predict Agitated Terminal Delirium in Patients at Comfort Care Home	8
Standardized Integration of Palliative Care Services in a Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Clinic	8
Secondary Burning Mouth Syndrome	8
Co-Designing a Quality of Life Survey for Mesothelioma: Qualitative and Cognitive Interview Findings	8
Intensity of Healthcare Utilization Among Pediatric Patients Receiving Concurrent Hospice Care	8