Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Community Engagement in Palliative Care: A Lesson From the Lakshadweep Islands214
Patients Are More Than Their Educational Value105
Feasibility of Animal-Assisted Interventions for Children with Advanced Cancer (S560)96
PC-FACS July 202289
Experience with an Electronic Practice Alert in Primary Care: Results from the Meta-LARC Advance Care Planning Study (RP303)55
Overcoming Challenges to Conducting an Embedded Summative Evaluation of the PAL-LIVER Cluster RCT for ESLD Patients (RP318)53
“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)51
Successful Treatment of Tumor-Related Fever (Refractory to Acetaminophen) with Oxybutynin (CS355)51
Impact of Cannabis Use Patterns on Symptoms in Patients with Cancer (Sch435)49
Speaking the Unspoken46
A Holy Moment45
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program44
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 Database40
Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Adult ECMO Cases Through the COVID Pandemic (GP147)39
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar37
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care35
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)32
Religion, Faith, and Spiritual Beliefs in Documented Goals of Care Conversations Following Acute Stroke (RP109)32
Creating a Learning Health System for Improving the Quality of Palliative Care: Generalizability of an EHR Phenotype for Advanced Cancer (GP713)32
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke31
Hospice Improves Last Month of Life Care Outcomes for Older Adults with Dementia (CO203B)30
Editorial Board30
Leading from the Heart30
Mortality Risk Following End-of-Life Caregiving: A Population-Based Analysis of Hospice Users and Their Families (GP135)30
Becoming More Common: Managing an Uncommon Disease with Unexpected Barriers (CS312)29
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients28
Advancing Interprofessional Hospice and Palliative Care Teamwork with Entrustable Professional Activities (SA300)28
The 7 On/7 Off: A Useful Alternative Scheduling Model for Hospital-Based Inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultation Services (QI436)28
Truth-Telling at End of Life: A Case (CS364)27
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Cancer Pain Relief: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial26
Characteristics of Inpatient Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (Sci214)26
Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (RDOS) – A Pilot25
Impact of an Institution-Wide Goals of Care Program on the Timing of Referrals to Outpatient Palliative Care25
Content and Comprehensiveness of Goals-of-Care Documentation in Pediatric Patients25
Creating a Dedicated Palliative Care Team for ICU Spanish Speaking Patients in Response to COVID-1924
Table of Contents24
Visualizing Multimorbidity in Chronically Ill Populations Using UpSet Plots24
Distinct Trajectories of Symptom Burden Development in Patients With Stage IV Cancer23
Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine to Treat Cancer Pain in Adult Patients: A Systematic Review23
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 Ahead23
Home Hospitalization in Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer and Dementia: A Systematic Review23
Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning23
Piloting a Patient Tool to Aid Palliative Care Referrals during Advanced Lung Cancer Treatment23
Psychologists as Pivotal Members of the Pediatric Palliative Care Team22
Early Advance Care Planning in Young Adults Receiving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation22
Should Age Matter? A 19 Year Old's Decision to Withdraw Life-Sustaining Treatment22
Ethical Dilemmas in Blood Transfusions, A Case Report in Palliative Care21
Palliation of Pain in a Pregnant Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report21
Managing the Challenges Associated With Refractory Lupus21
Needs Assessment for Palliative Care in the Emergency Department21
Empowering Providers in Navigating Opioid Prescribing Challenges on Hospital Discharge21
Improving Nursing Provision of Care on High Acuity Units and Fostering Wellbeing (TH 2)21
Who Am I? Creating a Co-curriculum for Training Physicians and Chaplains21
Table of Contents21
Compassionate Ventilatory Liberation for Patients in a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital21
Table of Contents21
How Touching: Analysis of Expressive Touch by Medical Students To Simulated Patients21
Is it Time to Rethink Pediatric Palliative Care Staffing to Optimize Access?20
Challenges and Ethical Considerations of Palliative Care in Indian Prisons20
The Paradox of Palliphobia19
Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality and the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care: A Scoping Review19
Early Specialist Palliative Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study19
A Kid at Heart: Applying Pediatric Skills to Caring for Adults19
Design and Implementation of a Primary Palliative Care Education Program for Hematology-Oncology Advanced Practice Providers: Insights From a Three-Year Cohort19
Opioid Conversion in Adults With Cancer: MASCC-ASCO-AAHPM-HPNA-NICSO Guideline Clinical Insights19
The Pediatric Cancer Care Experience (PACE) Questionnaire: Development and Validation of a Novel Instrument19
Novel Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Managing Chronic Cancer Pain19
Sights and Sounds of Respiratory Changes During Hospice Death Vigils: Hospice Caregivers Experience19
Do Types of Opioids Matter for Terminal Cancer Dyspnea? A Preliminary Multicenter Cohort Study19
Symptom Control and Survival for People Severely ill With COVID: A Multicentre Cohort Study (CovPall-Symptom)18
Palliative Care Needs of Physically Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Heart Failure18
Using Design Thinking to Promote Goals of Care Conversations With Seriously Ill Patients18
“You Want to Shield Your Kids”: Patients’ and Their Adult-Children's Serious Illness Conversations18
“It's Not Happening Nearly Enough”: Perioperative Integration of Palliative Care and Urology For Serious Illness (RP305)18
Goal-Concordant Care in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Receiving Palliative Care18
Should Benzodiazepines be Used for Reducing Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Illnesses?17
Guided Mindfulness of Death to Reduce Fear of Death in Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Study17
Pediatric Palliative Care at Home: A Prospective Study on Subcutaneous Drug Administration17
Finding the Balance: Treating Cancer Related Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder17
Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation17
Assessment of a Zero-Shot Large Language Model in Measuring Documented Goals-of-Care Discussions17
PC-FACS September 6, 202416
One Stone, Two Birds: Response to Letter to the Editor by Gurunthalingam et al.16
Effects of Exercise in Adults With Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis16
A Different Lens: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Discuss Racial Differences in Palliative Care (TH122C)16
What Matters in Survival is the Patient Not Early Palliative Care16
Black Caregivers’ Symptom Management, Cultural, and Religious Experiences With Home Hospice Care16
Editorial Board16
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 Center16
Microaggressions: Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care in Teams, Clinical Care, and Ourselves (FR203A)16
Mental Healthcare Delivery in Palliative Care: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives16
Challenges in Recruitment and Processing Hospice Patients for Research (SA302A)16
Ketamine for Cancer Related Pain in a Patient With Substance Use Disorder15
Assessing Provider Barriers to Use of Buprenorphine for Cancer-Related Pain15
Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care in the UK: Lessons to Learn?15
Managing Cancer-Related Pain With Targeted Drug Delivery15
AAHPM Pediatric State of the Science (SA301A)15
Randomized Trial of a Novel Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model to Predict the Need for Specialty Palliative Care in Hospitalized Patients (FR205A)15
Conservative Kidney Management in Hospice Care: A Case Report15
Pausing in Chaos: Timely and Effective Goals of Care in the ED15
Improving End-of-Life Care for Sickle Cell Disease: Enhancing Quality and Support15
ACP Documentation Older Adult15
Ketamine for Sickle Cell Crisis and Total Pain in Patient on Buprenorphine15
The End of the Shift: Supporting the Decision to Forego Dialysis and Addressing Modern Ethical Challenges (TH121B)15
Of the People, By the People, For the People: Advancing Health Equity in Palliative Care Through Community Partnership (FR209B)15
Let's Talk: Concurrent Palliative Care and Swallowing Consultations for Feeding Decisions15
Increasing the Accessibility of Early Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer15
Loss for Words: Individualized Comfort Scale in Patient With Cancer-related Brain Injury15
An Epic Step Forward: A Universal Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator Within an EHR to Improve Our Understanding of the Patient Narrative (FR201A)15
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Facilities Desire Increased Palliative Care Collaboration (FR214D)15
For Betty and the Magic That is You14
Service Level Characteristics of Rural Palliative Care for People with Chronic Disease14
The Embedment of Palliative Care Services on a Neuro-Surgical Unit (CS359)14
Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility14
Local Area Hospice Capacity and Rural Disparities in Hospice Use Among Older Adults with Metastatic Breast Cancer (GP741)14
Allocating Pediatric Pain in Systems with Palliative Care and Anesthesiology Pain Programs14
The Impact of Stressful Life Events after Bereavement: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey14
Changes Due to Patient Deaths: Medical Students’ Expectations vs. Health Professionals’ Experiences14
Telemedicine Utilization in the Ambulatory Palliative Care Setting: Are There Disparities in Access for Patients with Cancer? (RP513)14
Carved-in or Carved-out? The Perspective of Medicare Advantage Leaders on the Hospice Benefit (RP300)14
Efficacy Trial Results of a Culture-Centric Palliative Care Message for American Indians14
Ideal Timing and Perceived Barriers for Palliative Care Integration for Children with Cancer in China14
Defining and Characterizing Inappropriate Goals of Care Designation: A 10-year Retrospective Multicenter ICU Cohort Study14
Editorial Board14
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning14
Translating Individual Mentorship to Generalizable Action: Lessons Learned From J Randall Curtis13
Rationalizing Emotions: A Secondary Analysis of the Supportive and Palliative Cancer Care Clinicians’ Experiences During COVID-19 (GP766)13
Effects of Social Distancing at the End of Life on Hospice and Palliative Care Providers (GP746)13
A Career Changing Trip to Seattle13
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
Comprehensive Telehealth-Based Early Palliative Care Intervention for Iranian Patients with Heart Failure (GP112)13
A Qualitative Analysis of Nurse and Social Worker-led Goals of Care Discussions (GP102)13
Severe Stercoral Colitis: A Case Treated in the Hospice Setting (CS352)13
What Does it Mean to be an Excellent Mentor? J. Randall “Randy” Curtis’ Living Legacy13
Virtual Education Program to Increase Early Identification and Provider Competency: The CAPACITI Randomized Trial (RP110)13
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues13
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer13
“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
Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Home Death: An Explanatory Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study of Urban Palliative Care Providers (CS365)12
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resilience Training in the Care of Underrepresented Populations (VT100)12
Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine12
Use of Machine Learning Algorithm to Identify Patients in Need of Palliative Care in a Primary Care Population: A Pilot Study (RP502)12
Current Trends in Online Palliative Care Messaging Practices: A Qualitative Analysis (Sci220)12
Pediatric Home-Based Palliative, Hospice Care12
Palliative Care Knowledge in Adults with Chronic Disease Compared to Cancer: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample (GP729)12
Marching to the beat of his own drum: pacemakers at the end of life12
Unique Palliative Care Considerations for Patients at the US-Mexico Border: A Case Study12
“That Little Bit of Time”: Transition-to-Hospice Perspectives from Hospice Staff and Bereaved Family (S531)12
Analysis of Symptom Burden among Female Veterans (Sci208)12
Inpatients with Dementia Referred for Palliative Care Consultation: A Multicenter Analysis (S558)12
Getting to the Root of the Symptom: Differentiating Between Adverse Drug Effects and Impending Death (FR237)11
Palliative Care Physicians’ Perceptions of Conditions Required to Provide Early Palliative Care11
Screening for Palliative Care Need in Oncology: Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures11
“Scarcity,” “Futility,” and “Moral Distress”: A Case Analysis of the Challenges of Sound Ethical Description11
Editorial Board11
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Using Collaborative Care to Increase Access to Community-Based Supportive Oncology (SA310)11
Fertility in the Face of Farewells: A Palliative Care Provider's Journey11
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange11
Association between Advance Directives and Invasive Life Support Use at End of Life: A Retrospective Cohort Study11
Perspectives on Implementing a Communication Facilitator Intervention From a Critical Care Setting11
Making the Case for CASE (Clarify, Assemble, Synthetize, Explain, and Support) to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas When Death Is Expected and Imminent (CS338)11
Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning: A Decomposition Analysis11
Dyadic Yoga for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemoradiation and their Family Caregivers11
An Integrative Pediatric Oncology Program Addressing Parents’ Quality of Life-Related Concerns11
Exploring the Latino Experience and Needs in Dementia Caregiving10
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE Measures to Assess Care Quality in Inpatient Palliative Care10
Palliative Care Program Characteristics and End-of-Life Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Cancer10
Navigating Challenges in Treatment Refusal: The Role of Palliative Care in Decision-Making10
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Palliative Care (FACIT-Pal) in Patients With Advanced Cancer10
Enhancing Clinician Knowledge and Use of Pain Assessment Tools for the Nonverbal Patient Population (Sch426)10
Hospice Cost-Sharing in the Affordable Care Act Individual Marketplace10
Mistaken Farewell: A Case Where IDT Changed the Trajectory of Factitious Disorder10
Social Work Driven Palliative Care Integration Into the Emergency Department10
Assessing Knowledge and Attitudes of Palliative Care: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Survey10
Use of Long-Term Abdominal Drains in Management of Diuretic-Refractory Non-Malignant Ascites10
Care Connections: Navigating the Transition From a Palliative Unit to Intensive Care10
Competency vs. Capacity: Legally Incompetent, Yet Medically Capable?10
Bereaved Family Quality of Life Varies With Comorbid Psychological Distress and ICU-Care Quality10
Listening to Families: Building Better Pediatric Surgical Care10
Results Surveying Supportive Medicine's integration into an NCI Cancer Center's ICU10
Educating Health Care Professionals in a Community Hospital About Palliative Care10
A Statement on the Role and Qualifications of Health Care Chaplains for Research and Quality10
Differences in Pain Episodes Among Children With Complex Chronic Conditions at End of Life10
Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness10
Implementation of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes in a Comprehensive Cancer Center10
Table of Contents10
Becoming Alpha !!!: Using Alpha-Adrenergic Agents From ICU to Hospice"10
The Use of Ketamine for End-of-Life Symptom Control in a Pediatric Patient with a Progressive Neurologic Disease (CS362)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
Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates9
A National Survey describing Management Patterns for Pediatric Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PSH)9
Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care: Treating Cancer in Patients with Serious Mental Illness (CS324)9
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy9
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care9
AAHPM Pediatric Competencies: Developing Pediatric Learning Objectives for Adult-Track HPM Fellows and Finding the “Sweet Spot” in Length of Training (TH131)9
SOGI and Beyond: Equitable Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities (FR220)9
PC-FACS February 20239
Is There a Script for This? Addressing Deprescribing in Progressive Neurologic Disease (FR234)9
Targeted Therapy: Improving the Delivery of Palliative Care Through Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Models9
Table of Contents9
Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Use for Palliative Sedation Therapy (PST) in Pediatric Oncology: A Ten-Year Review (GP750)9
Providing Ethical and Compassionate Care to a Dying Patient When They or Family Threaten Violence9
PC-FACS, November 7, 20249
A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients9
African Americans Communities Speak to Healthcare Providers: Clinical Practice Outcomes9
Table of Contents9
Exploring Health Care Providers’ Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure at Home: A Qualitative Study (GP726)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
“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
Effectiveness of an Algorithmic Approach to Ventilator Withdrawal at the End of Life (SAPLEN 101)9
Buprenorphine 2.0: Why, When, and How to Prescribe Buprenorphine in Patients with Serious Illness (FR258)9
SOPHIE: Testing a Virtual, Interactive, AI-Augmented End-of-Life Communication Training Tool (RP122)9
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What's Our Role?9
Buprenorphine as a Treatment for Severe Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy – A Case Report9
A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center9
Disparities in Therapeutic Alliance Among Latino Immigrants With Advanced Cancer9
When No Means No: Role of the Social Worker in Advocating for Patients Who Express Negative Autonomy (CS369)9
Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher9
Editorial Board9
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
Pain in Heart Failure, Health Equity, and Healthcare Biases (CS316)9
Truly Integrated Support for Cancer Patients: A Palliative Care Clinic Model (ODS2)9
All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil9
“There Is No Good Decision”: Understanding Why Parents Decline Home Mechanical Ventilation for Their Children (FR264)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
Enhancing Virtual Communication Skills Among Medical Learners: A COVID-19 Telemedicine Goals of Care Standardized Encounter (QI430)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
Hispanic Patients and Serious Illness Experiences - A Literature Review8
A Race-Conscious Approach Toward Research on Racial Inequities in Palliative Care8
Teaching Palliative Medicine in the Medical School Clerkship in France. A National E-Survey8
Palliative Care Social Work State of the Science (SA303A)8
Distinct Shortness of Breath Profiles in Oncology Outpatients Undergoing Chemotherapy8
US Medicare Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Workforce and Service Delivery in 2008-20208
Opioid Toxicity After Switching From Intrathecal to IV Pain Management: Case Study8
It's Not About Winning or Losing: How Consultants Navigate Disagreement in Serious Illness8
What's in the Sauce? The Specific Benefits of Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease8
Exploration of Trust Among Black and Hispanic Parents of Children with Cancer (TH122B)8
Prevalence and Severity of Symptoms and Concerns in Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis During Their Final Year of Life: A Cohort Analysis8
Utilizing Simulated Patients to Train Internal Medical Residents in Advanced Communication Skills8
Ketamine as a Novel Solution for Opioid-Refractory Pain in Radiation Necrosis8
Psychotherapeutic Techniques for Dyspnea in Cancer and Chronic Illness: Systematic Review8
Perception Towards Take Home Naloxone Among Patients with Cancer on Opioids Who Live Alone8
“We Need Help!”: Reflections from an Interdisciplinary Team on Embedding a Clinical Psychologist on the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service (TH113A)8
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