American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Article	Citations
Reinventing Palliative Care Delivery in the Era of COVID-19: How Telemedicine Can Support End of Life Care	83
Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature	60
The Experiences of Family Members of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study	51
Sociodemographic Disparities in Access to Hospice and Palliative Care: An Integrative Review	37
Family Meetings in the Intensive Care Unit During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic	30
Grief: The Epidemic Within an Epidemic	27
Palliative Care During COVID-19: Data and Visits From Loved Ones	26
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on U.S. Hospice Agencies: A National Survey of Hospice Nurses and Physicians	23
Impact of Caring for Terminally Ill Children on Physicians: A Systematic Scoping Review	22
Exploring Family Caregiver Communication Difficulties and Caregiver Quality of Life and Anxiety	20
Awareness of Palliative Care, Hospice Care, and Advance Directives in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of California Adults	20
Health Care Provider Barriers to Patient Referral to Palliative Care	19
Racial Disparities in Utilization of Palliative Care Among Patients Admitted With Advanced Solid Organ Malignancies	18
Advance Care Planning for African American Caregivers of Relatives With Dementias: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	18
Outpatient Palliative Care Practice for Cancer Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic: Benefits and Barriers of Using Telemedicine	17
Value of Advance Care Directives for Patients With Serious Illness in the Era of COVID Pandemic: A Review of Challenges and Solutions	17
Examining Barriers and Facilitators to Palliative Care Access in Rural Areas: A Scoping Review	17
Implementing Serious Illness Communication Processes in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study	17
Access Barrier in Rural Older Adults’ Use of Pain Management and Palliative Care Services: A Systematic Review	17
Palliative Care Team Involvement in Patients With COVID-19 in New York City	16
A Systematic Review of Clinical Interventions Facilitating End-of-Life Communication Between Patients and Family Caregivers	16
The Potential of Personalized Virtual Reality in Palliative Care: A Feasibility Trial	16
Identifying End-of-Life Preferences Among Chinese Patients With Cancer Using the Heart to Heart Card Game	16
The Impact of Varying Levels of Advance Care Planning Engagement on Perceptions of the End-of-Life Experience Among Caregivers of Deceased Patients With Cancer	16
Palliative Care in a Death-Denying Culture: Exploring Barriers to Timely Palliative Efforts for Heart Failure Patients in the Primary Care Setting	15

COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Development of Outpatient Palliative Care Toolkit Based on Narrative Communication	15
Early Integrated Palliative Care Bundle Impacts Location of Death in Interstitial Lung Disease: A Pilot Retrospective Study	15
Patients With Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease Receive Supportive and Palliative Care Just Prior to Death	15
Harnessing New and Existing Virtual Platforms to Meet the Demand for Increased Inpatient Palliative Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 5 Key Themes Literature Review of the Characteristics	14
Barriers to Addressing the Spiritual and Religious Needs of Patients and Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Critical Care Physicians	14
Reluctance to Accept Palliative Care and Recommendations for Improvement: Findings From Semi-Structured Interviews With Patients and Caregivers	14
As the Pandemic Recedes, Will Moral Distress Continue to Surge?	14
The Role of Palliative Care in Caring for the Families of Patients With COVID-19	14
A Systematic Review on Barriers to Palliative Care in Oncology	13
Hospital-Based Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review	13
Palliative Care for Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19 Infection	12
Spirituality and the Illness Experience: Perspectives of African American Older Adults	12
Caring for Dying Infants: A Systematic Review of Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives of Neonatal Palliative Care	12
Cultivating Cultural Competence: How Are Hospice Staff Being Educated to Engage Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients?	12
Improving Care Experiences for Patients and Caregivers at End of Life: A Systematic Review	11
Circumstances Related to Moral Distress in Palliative Care: An Integrative Review	11
Heart to Heart Cards: A Novel, Culturally Tailored, Community-Based Advance Care Planning Tool for Chinese Americans	11
Attitudes of Front-Line Nurses Toward Hospice Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Barriers to and Facilitators of Neonatal Palliative Care Among Neonatal Professionals in China	11
End-of-Life Experiences (ELEs) of Spiritual Nature Are Reported Directly by Patients Receiving Palliative Care in a Highly Secular Country: A Qualitative Study	11
Students Practicing Interprofessional Collaboration in the Context of Hospice and Palliative Care	11
Are We Getting What We Really Want? A Systematic Review of Concordance Between Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Documentation and Subsequent Care Delivered at End-of-Life	11
Cost Savings Associated With Palliative Care Among Older Adults With Advanced Cancer	11
Rapid Electronic Capturing of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Older Adults With End-Stage Renal Disease: A Feasibility Study	11
Role of Physiotherapy in Hospice Care of Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Systematic Review	10
Financial Hardship and Health Related Quality of Life Among Older Latinos With Chronic Diseases	10
Demoralization in End-of-Life Cancer Patients’ Family Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Study	10
“If You Call Them, They Will Come”: A Telephone Call Reminder to Decrease the No-Show Rate in an Outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic	10
Social Work Training in Palliative Care: Addressing the Gap	10
An Adapted Conceptual Model Integrating Palliative Care in Serious Illness and Multiple Chronic Conditions	10
Palliative Care Consults in an Inpatient Setting for Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	10
Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness	10
Health Professionals’ Perspectives of the Role of Palliative Care During COVID-19: Content Analysis of Articles and Blogs Posted on Twitter	10
Barriers to Palliative Care Referral and Advance Care Planning (ACP) for Patients With COPD: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Palliative Care Nurses	10
General Practitioners’ Perspectives on General and Specialized Palliative Home Care in North Rhine, Germany: An Explorative Focus Group Study	10
Palliative Referrals in Advanced Cancer Patients: Utilizing the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool and Rothman Index	10
Perceptions of Palliative Care: Voices From Rural South Dakota	9
Palliative Paracentesis in the Home Setting: A Case Series	9
Palliative Care Consultations in Trauma Patients and Role of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Propensity-Matched Study	9
Lessons on Older LGBTQ Individuals’ Sexuality and Spirituality for Hospice and Palliative Care	9
Trends in the Utilization of Palliative Care in Patients With Gynecologic Cancer Who Subsequently Died During Hospitalization	9
The Premise and Development of CHECK IN—Check-In for Exchange of Clinical and Key Information to Enhance Palliative Care Discussions for Patients With Limited English Proficiency	9
COVID-19, Suffering and Palliative Care: A Review	9
Advance Care Planning—Complex and Working: Longitudinal Trajectory of Congruence in End-of-Life Treatment Preferences: An RCT	9
Evaluation of Antibiotic Initiation Tools in End-of-Life Care	9
Chaplain-Physician Interactions From the Chaplain’s Perspective: A Mixed Method Analysis	9
An Interprofessional Approach to Advance Care Planning	9
Quality of Life for Older Cancer Patients: Relation of Psychospiritual Distress to Meaning-Making During Dignity Therapy	9
Pilot of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative Among Veterans With Serious Illness	9
Evolving Goals of Care Discussions as Described in Interviews With Individuals With Advanced Cancer and Oncology and Palliative Care Teams	8

The Role and Activities of Board-Certified Chaplains in Advance Care Planning	8
Polypharmacy, Medication Possession, and Deprescribing of Potentially Non-Beneficial Drugs in Hospice Patients	8
Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care Literacy Initiatives in African American Faith Communities: A Systematic Integrative Review	8
Improving the Care of Patients With Serious Illness: What Are the Palliative Care Education Needs of Internal Medicine Residents?	8
Mobile Applications for Advance Care Planning: A Comprehensive Review of Features, Quality, Content, and Readability	8
Barriers, Facilitators and Recommended Strategies for Implementing a Home-Based Palliative Care Intervention in Kolkata, India	8
Healthcare Provider Perspectives Regarding Use of Medical Interpreters During End-of-Life Conversations With Limited English Proficient Patients	8
Parents With Advanced Cancer: Worries About Their Children’s Unspoken Concerns	8
Lay Health Workers’ Perspectives on Delivery of Advance Care Planning and Symptom Screening Among Adults With Cancer: A Qualitative Study	8
Advance Care Planning Needs in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Qualitative Study	8
The Feasibility of Virtual VitalTalk Workshops in Japanese: Can Faculty Members in the US Effectively Teach Communication Skills Virtually to Learners in Japan?	8
Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cannabis Use in Cancer Patients	8
Complicated Grief, Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Bereaved Parents following their Child’s Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Study	8
Intrapersonal Factors Impact Advance Care Planning Among Cancer Patients	8
Appointment of a Healthcare Power of Attorney Among Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Adults in the Southern United States	8
An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Patient and Caregiver Perspectives of Ambulatory Kidney Palliative Care	8
Personality Traits and Sense of Dignity in End-of-Life Cancer Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study	8
Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19	8
Trends, Sociodemographic and Hospital-Level Factors Associated With Palliative Care Utilization Among Multiple Myeloma Patients Using the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2018)	7
Frequency and Symptomatology of Hiccups in Patients With Cancer: Using an On-Line Medical Community to Better Understand the Patient Experience	7
Hospice Glassdoor and CAHPS® Scores—Glassdoor Scores and Hospice Financial Characteristics Predict Hospice Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Scores	7
Home Palliative Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review	7
Coping Through COVID-19: A Mixed Method Approach to Understand How Palliative Care Teams Managed the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Palliative Care Professionals and Services: A Mixed-Methods Survey Study	7
Attitudes and Perceptions of End-of-Life Dreams and Visions and Their Implication to the Bereaved Family Caregiver Experience	7
Palliative Medical Management of Inoperable Malignant Bowel Obstruction With “Triple Therapy”: Dexamethasone, Octreotide, and Metoclopramide	7
“It Took Away and Stripped a Part of Myself”: Clinician Distress and Recommendations for Future Telepalliative Care Delivery in the Cancer Context	7
Hospice Enrollment, Future Hospitalization, and Future Costs Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients Who Received Palliative Care Consultation	7
A Multicenter Qualitative Analysis of Medical Student Narratives After a Palliative Care Elective	7
Preoperative Advance Care Planning for Older Adults Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery	7
Satisfaction of Patients With Severe Multiple Sclerosis and Their Family Members With Palliative Care: Interventional Study	7
Occurrence of Advance Care Planning and Hospital Course in Patients Admitted for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) During the Pandemic	7
“I’m Dealing With That”: Illness Concerns of African American and White Cancer Patients While Undergoing Active Cancer Treatments	7
Disparities in Palliative Care Utilization Among Hospitalized People With Huntington Disease: A National Cross-Sectional Study	6
A Novel Interprofessional Palliative Care and Geriatrics Curriculum for Nephrology Teams	6
Palliative Care for the Asian American Adult Population: A Scoping Review	6
Assessing Quality in Advance Care Planning Documentation: A Survey of Current Methods	6
Early Palliative Care in Patients With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Southwest China	6
Scalable Model for Delivery of Inpatient Palliative Care During a Pandemic	6
Latino Families’ Decisions to Accept Hospice Care	6
The Financial Impact of Palliative Care and Aggressive Cancer Care on End-of-Life Health Care Costs	6
Preparedness to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hospice and Palliative Care Services in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Rapid Online Survey	6
Too Much Too Late? Chemotherapy Administration at the End of Life: A Retrospective Observational Study	6
Effects of Early Palliative Care in Advanced Cancer Patients: A Meta-Analysis	6
Patient Safety in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Text Mining Approach and Systematic Review of Definitions	6
Geographic Variation in Knowledge of Palliative Care Among US Adults: Findings From 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey	6
The Concerns and Experience of Decision-Making Regarding Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Among Caregivers in Hospice Palliative Care	6
Advance Care Planning Shared Decision-Making Tools for Non-Cancer Chronic Serious Illness: A Mixed Method Systematic Review	6
Patterns of Health Care Services During Pediatric Concurrent Hospice Care: A National Study	6
Percutaneous CT-Guided Cryoablation of the Bilateral Pudendal Nerves for Palliation of Intractable Pain Related to Pelvic Neoplasms	6
Effectiveness of Educational Programs on Palliative and End-of-life Care in Promoting Perceived Competence Among Health and Social Care Professionals	6
Deprescribing in Older Adults With Cancer and Limited Life Expectancy: An Integrative Review	6
Caregiver Speaks Study Protocol: A Technologically-Mediated Storytelling Intervention for Hospice Family Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia	6
Early Palliative Care Consults Reduce Patients’ Length of Stay and Overall Hospital Costs	5
Clinical Course for Patients With Trisomy 13 and 18 Pursuing Life-Prolonging Therapies Versus Comfort-Directed Care	5
SHARING Choices: A Pilot Study to Engage Family in Advance Care Planning of Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment in the Primary Care Context	5
Impact of Palliative and End of Life Care Interprofessional Education for Pre-licensure Healthcare Students: An Integrated Review	5
Insomnia Symptoms Among Hospice Family Caregivers: Prevalence and Association with Caregiver Mental and Physical Health, Quality of Life, and Caregiver Burden	5
Preparedness for Serious Illnesses: Impact of Ethnicity, Mistrust, Perceived Discrimination, and Health Communication	5
Teaching Empathic Communication to Pediatric Interns: Immediate and 3-Month Impact	5
Palliative Care Education During COVID-19: The MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mt. Zion	5
Prevalence and Inpatient Hospital Outcomes of Malignancy-Related Ascites in the United States	5
Communicating Oncologic Prognosis With Empathy: A Pilot Study of a Novel Communication Guide	5
Feasibility and Acceptability of Digital Legacy-Making: An Innovative Story-Telling Intervention for Adults With Cancer	5
Palliative Care Services in the NeuroICU: Opportunities and Persisting Barriers	5
The Efficacy of a Single Session of 20-Minute Mindful Breathing in Reducing Dyspnea Among Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Building Palliative Care Capacity for Generalist Providers in the Community: Results From the Capaciti Pilot Education Program	5
Oral Health in Adult Patients Receiving Palliative Care: A Mixed Method Study	5
Palliative Sedation, Compassionate Extubation, and the Principle of Double Effect: An Ethical Analysis	5
Lean Into the Uncomfortable: Using Trauma-Informed Care to Engage in Shared Decision-Making With Racial Minorities With Hematologic Malignancies	5
Quality of Communication Questionnaire for Patients Hospitalized in Intensive and Palliative Care: Validity Evidence for Use in Brazil	5
Parent’s Lived Experience of Memory Making With Their Child at or Near End of Life	5
Factors Associated With Advance Care Planning by Race	5
Valproic Acid in the Management of Delirium	5
A Retrospective Study Analyzing the Lack of Symptom Benefit With Antimicrobials at the End of Life	5
Awareness of Hospice Care Among Rural African-Americans: Findings From Social Determinants of Health Framework	5
The Role of an Inpatient Hospice and Palliative Clinical Pharmacist in the Interdisciplinary Team	5
Spiritual Care Assessment and Intervention (SCAI) for Adult Outpatients With Advanced Cancer and Caregivers: A Pilot Trial to Assess Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects	5
Does Culture Matter? Young and Middle-Aged Iranian-American Adults’ Perspectives Regarding End-of-Life Care Planning	5
Palliative Care and COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Study of Factors Associated With Infection and Death at an Oncological Palliative Care Reference Center	5

Understanding Quality of Life for Palliative Patients With Dysphagia Using the Swallowing Quality of Life (SWAL-QOL) Questionnaire	5
Clinician Ethical Perspectives on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Practice	5
Utility of Palliative Prognostic Index in Predicting Survival Outcomes in Patients With Hematological Malignancies in the Acute Ward Setting	5
“It Made Me Feel Like I Didn’t Know My Own Body”: Patient-Provider Relationships, LGBTQ+ Identity, and End-of-Life Discussions	5
The Impact of Obesity in End of Life Care in Patients With End Stage Liver Disease: An Observational Study	5
How Should We Assess Pain: Do Patients Prefer a Quantitative or Qualitative Scale? A Study of Patient Preferences	5
Impact of legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying on the Use of Palliative Sedation in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Chart Review	5
Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Improve Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation Processes	5
Physician Palliative Education Associated With High Use of Hospice Care Service	5
Predictive Factors of Death on Hospitalization in Patients With Advanced Cancer in Palliative Care	5
Advance Care Planning for Emergency Department Patients With COVID-19 Infection: An Assessment of a Physician Training Program	5
Using Participatory Action Research to Sustain Palliative Care Knowledge and Readiness Among Latino Community Leaders	5
Pediatric End-of-Life Care in Rural America: A Systematic Review	5
Palliative Care and Rapid Emergency Screening Tool and the Palliative Performance Scale to Predict Survival of Older Adults Admitted to the Hospital From the Emergency Department	5
Supporting Pediatric Patients and Their Families at the End of Life: Perspectives From Bereaved Parents	5
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the SPIKES Model to Break Bad News – A Systematic Review	5
Patients’ Awareness of Advanced Disease Status, Psychological Distress and Quality of Life Among Patients With Advanced Cancer: Results From the APPROACH Study, India	5
Improving Access to Palliative Care at a VHA Hospital	5
“Palliative Pandemic Plan,” Triage and Symptoms Algorithm as a Strategy to Decrease Providers’ Exposure, While Trying to Increase Teams Availability and Guidance for Goals of Care (GOC) and Symptoms C	5
Impact of Palliative Care in End-of-Life of Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease Patients	5
Effectiveness of Pediatric Concurrent Hospice Care to Improve Continuity of Care	5
Home-Based Palliative Care Organizations Struggle to Survive and Thrive in a Competitive Market	4
Barriers to the Use of Neurologic Criteria to Declare Death in Africa	4
Sexuality and Intimacy Needs Within a Hospitalized Palliative Care Population: Results From a Qualitative Study	4
Palliative Care Unit at Home: Impact on Quality of Life in Cancer Patients at the End of Life in a Rural Environment	4
Comparison of Patient Self-Reported Quality of Life and Health Care Professional-Assessed Symptoms in Terminally ill Patients With Cancer	4
Methadone for Cancer Pain in Pediatric End-of-Life Care	4
Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Referred to an Emergency Department-Based End-of-Life Care Service in Hong Kong: A Retrospective Cohort Study	4
Impact of End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium on Palliative Care Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Care of Dying of Nurses in India: A Quasi-Experimental Pre-post Study	4
Outcomes of Airway Stents in the Palliative Care of Patients With Cancer	4
The Effect of 5-Minute Mindfulness of Peace on Suffering and Spiritual Well-Being Among Palliative Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study	4
Comparison of Web-Based and Paper Advance Directives: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial	4
Palliative Care for the Interstitial Lung Disease Patient a Must and Not Just a Need	4
Prevalence, Associated Factors and Adverse Outcomes of Demoralization in Cancer Patients: A Decade of Systematic Review	4
Dementia and Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Associated With Less Intensive of End-of-Life Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study	4
Integrating Palliative Care Into a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (NS-ICU): A Quality Improvement (QI) Project	4
Sharing COMFORT Communication Training With Healthcare Professionals in Nairobi, Kenya: A Pilot Webinar Series	4
Developing the Future End-of-Life Health Care Workforce: Lessons Learned From a Survey of Advanced Health Professions Students	4
Evaluation of a Large Scale Advance Care Planning Co-Design Education Program for Chinese-Speaking People in Australia	4
Promotion of Advance Care Planning Among Young Adults: A Pilot Study of Health Engagement Workshop Feasibility, Implementation, and Efficacy	4
Examining the Association of Billed Advance Care Planning With End-of-Life Hospital Admissions Among Advanced Cancer Patients in Hospice	4
Role of the Rapid Response System in End-of-Life Care Decisions	4
Patient Risk Factor Profiles Associated With the Timing of Goals-of-Care Consultation Before Death: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis	4
Symptom Burden and Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Dependency Among Home Health care Patients Discharged to Home Hospice	4
Care Disruptions and End-Of-Life Care Experiences Among Home-Based Primary Care Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City: A Retrospective Chart Review	4
Associations Between Health Literacy and End-of-Life Care Intensity Among Medicare Beneficiaries	4
Faith Beliefs of African American Church Leaders Are Aligned With the Principles of Palliative and Hospice Care: A Community-Based Assessment and Intervention	4
Covid-19 Mortality in an Acute Care Hospital: Association of Patient Factors With Decision to Forego the Intensive Care Unit	4
Exploring the Changes in Code Status During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Implications for Future Pandemic Care	4
Added Value of Early Consultation of an Inpatient Palliative Care Team in Hospitalized Older Patients With High Symptom Burden: A Prospective Comparative Study	4
Impact of a Palliative Care Education Module in Patients With Heart Failure	4
Trends and Predictors of Palliative Care Consultation Among Patients Admitted for LVAD: A Retrospective Analysis From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database From 2006-2014	4