American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Article	Citations
Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature	76
The Experiences of Family Members of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study	57
Sociodemographic Disparities in Access to Hospice and Palliative Care: An Integrative Review	47
Family Meetings in the Intensive Care Unit During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic	36
Grief: The Epidemic Within an Epidemic	29
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on U.S. Hospice Agencies: A National Survey of Hospice Nurses and Physicians	26
Examining Barriers and Facilitators to Palliative Care Access in Rural Areas: A Scoping Review	25
Awareness of Palliative Care, Hospice Care, and Advance Directives in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of California Adults	25
Health Care Provider Barriers to Patient Referral to Palliative Care	23
A Systematic Review on Barriers to Palliative Care in Oncology	22
The Potential of Personalized Virtual Reality in Palliative Care: A Feasibility Trial	21
Reluctance to Accept Palliative Care and Recommendations for Improvement: Findings From Semi-Structured Interviews With Patients and Caregivers	20
Heart to Heart Cards: A Novel, Culturally Tailored, Community-Based Advance Care Planning Tool for Chinese Americans	20
As the Pandemic Recedes, Will Moral Distress Continue to Surge?	18
Cost Savings Associated With Palliative Care Among Older Adults With Advanced Cancer	17
Outpatient Palliative Care Practice for Cancer Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic: Benefits and Barriers of Using Telemedicine	17
Barriers to Addressing the Spiritual and Religious Needs of Patients and Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Critical Care Physicians	16
Health Professionals’ Perspectives of the Role of Palliative Care During COVID-19: Content Analysis of Articles and Blogs Posted on Twitter	16
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	16
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	15
Barriers to and Facilitators of Neonatal Palliative Care Among Neonatal Professionals in China	15
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the SPIKES Model to Break Bad News – A Systematic Review	15
Hospital-Based Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review	15
Evaluation of Antibiotic Initiation Tools in End-of-Life Care	14
Advance Care Planning Needs in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Qualitative Study	14

Demoralization in End-of-Life Cancer Patients’ Family Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Study	14
Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness	14
Spirituality and the Illness Experience: Perspectives of African American Older Adults	14
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	13
Advance Care Planning—Complex and Working: Longitudinal Trajectory of Congruence in End-of-Life Treatment Preferences: An RCT	13
Palliative Care for Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19 Infection	13
Palliative Referrals in Advanced Cancer Patients: Utilizing the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool and Rothman Index	13
COVID-19, Suffering and Palliative Care: A Review	12
Circumstances Related to Moral Distress in Palliative Care: An Integrative Review	12
Clinician Ethical Perspectives on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Practice	11
Barriers to Palliative Care Referral and Advance Care Planning (ACP) for Patients With COPD: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Palliative Care Nurses	11
Quality of Life for Older Cancer Patients: Relation of Psychospiritual Distress to Meaning-Making During Dignity Therapy	11
Personality Traits and Sense of Dignity in End-of-Life Cancer Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study	11
Oral Health in Adult Patients Receiving Palliative Care: A Mixed Method Study	11
The Financial Impact of Palliative Care and Aggressive Cancer Care on End-of-Life Health Care Costs	10
Improving the Care of Patients With Serious Illness: What Are the Palliative Care Education Needs of Internal Medicine Residents?	10
Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Palliative Care Professionals and Services: A Mixed-Methods Survey Study	10
The Role and Activities of Board-Certified Chaplains in Advance Care Planning	10
An Interprofessional Approach to Advance Care Planning	10
Hospice Enrollment, Future Hospitalization, and Future Costs Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients Who Received Palliative Care Consultation	10
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	10
Financial Hardship and Health Related Quality of Life Among Older Latinos With Chronic Diseases	10
A Multicenter Qualitative Analysis of Medical Student Narratives After a Palliative Care Elective	10
Healthcare Provider Perspectives Regarding Use of Medical Interpreters During End-of-Life Conversations With Limited English Proficient Patients	10
Home Palliative Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review	9
Coping Through COVID-19: A Mixed Method Approach to Understand How Palliative Care Teams Managed the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Spiritual Care Assessment and Intervention (SCAI) for Adult Outpatients With Advanced Cancer and Caregivers: A Pilot Trial to Assess Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects	9
Lessons on Older LGBTQ Individuals’ Sexuality and Spirituality for Hospice and Palliative Care	9
Behavioral Activation and Therapeutic Exposure vs. Cognitive Therapy for Grief Among Combat Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Bereavement Interventions	9
“It Took Away and Stripped a Part of Myself”: Clinician Distress and Recommendations for Future Telepalliative Care Delivery in the Cancer Context	9
Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care Literacy Initiatives in African American Faith Communities: A Systematic Integrative Review	9
The Feasibility of Virtual VitalTalk Workshops in Japanese: Can Faculty Members in the US Effectively Teach Communication Skills Virtually to Learners in Japan?	9
Barriers, Facilitators and Recommended Strategies for Implementing a Home-Based Palliative Care Intervention in Kolkata, India	9
Lay Health Workers’ Perspectives on Delivery of Advance Care Planning and Symptom Screening Among Adults With Cancer: A Qualitative Study	9
Effects of Early Palliative Care in Advanced Cancer Patients: A Meta-Analysis	9
Trends, Sociodemographic and Hospital-Level Factors Associated With Palliative Care Utilization Among Multiple Myeloma Patients Using the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2018)	9
Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19	9
Latino Families’ Decisions to Accept Hospice Care	8
Advance Care Planning Shared Decision-Making Tools for Non-Cancer Chronic Serious Illness: A Mixed Method Systematic Review	8
Parent’s Lived Experience of Memory Making With Their Child at or Near End of Life	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
Frequency and Symptomatology of Hiccups in Patients With Cancer: Using an On-Line Medical Community to Better Understand the Patient Experience	8
Hospice Glassdoor and CAHPS® Scores—Glassdoor Scores and Hospice Financial Characteristics Predict Hospice Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Scores	8
Impact of Palliative Care in End-of-Life of Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease Patients	8
Physician Palliative Education Associated With High Use of Hospice Care Service	8
Trends and Predictors of Palliative Care Consultation Among Patients Admitted for LVAD: A Retrospective Analysis From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database From 2006-2014	8
Prevalence, Associated Factors and Adverse Outcomes of Demoralization in Cancer Patients: A Decade of Systematic Review	8
Satisfaction of Patients With Severe Multiple Sclerosis and Their Family Members With Palliative Care: Interventional Study	8
Early Versus Usual Palliative Care Consultation in the Intensive Care Unit	8

Chaplain-Physician Interactions From the Chaplain’s Perspective: A Mixed Method Analysis	8
Patient Safety in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Text Mining Approach and Systematic Review of Definitions	8
Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cannabis Use in Cancer Patients	8
Preoperative Advance Care Planning for Older Adults Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery	7
Standardized Criteria Increases Palliative Care Consultation Utilization in Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease: A Pilot Study	7
Assessing Quality in Advance Care Planning Documentation: A Survey of Current Methods	7
Early Palliative Care in Patients With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Southwest China	7
Scalable Model for Delivery of Inpatient Palliative Care During a Pandemic	7
Lean Into the Uncomfortable: Using Trauma-Informed Care to Engage in Shared Decision-Making With Racial Minorities With Hematologic Malignancies	7
Disparities in Palliative Care Utilization Among Hospitalized People With Huntington Disease: A National Cross-Sectional Study	7
Patterns of Health Care Services During Pediatric Concurrent Hospice Care: A National Study	7
Occurrence of Advance Care Planning and Hospital Course in Patients Admitted for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) During the Pandemic	7
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	7
Pediatric End-of-Life Care in Rural America: A Systematic Review	7
Feasibility and Acceptability of Digital Legacy-Making: An Innovative Story-Telling Intervention for Adults With Cancer	7
Effectiveness of Pediatric Concurrent Hospice Care to Improve Continuity of Care	7
Palliative Care Services in the NeuroICU: Opportunities and Persisting Barriers	7
Impact of Palliative and End of Life Care Interprofessional Education for Pre-licensure Healthcare Students: An Integrated Review	7
Effectiveness of Educational Programs on Palliative and End-of-life Care in Promoting Perceived Competence Among Health and Social Care Professionals	7
Preparedness for Serious Illnesses: Impact of Ethnicity, Mistrust, Perceived Discrimination, and Health Communication	7
Patients’ Awareness of Advanced Disease Status, Psychological Distress and Quality of Life Among Patients With Advanced Cancer: Results From the APPROACH Study, India	7
Utility of Palliative Prognostic Index in Predicting Survival Outcomes in Patients With Hematological Malignancies in the Acute Ward Setting	6
The Role of Specialty Palliative Care for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	6
Who Gets (and Who Should Get) a Serious Illness Conversation in the Hospital? An Analysis of Readmission Risk Score in an Electronic Health Record	6
Quality of Communication Questionnaire for Patients Hospitalized in Intensive and Palliative Care: Validity Evidence for Use in Brazil	6
Awareness of Hospice Care Among Rural African-Americans: Findings From Social Determinants of Health Framework	6
Palliative Care and COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Study of Factors Associated With Infection and Death at an Oncological Palliative Care Reference Center	6
The Effect of Triggered Palliative Medicine Consults on Nurse Moral Distress in the Medical Intensive Care Unit	6
Does Culture Matter? Young and Middle-Aged Iranian-American Adults’ Perspectives Regarding End-of-Life Care Planning	6
Building Palliative Care Capacity for Generalist Providers in the Community: Results From the Capaciti Pilot Education Program	6
Early Palliative Care Consults Reduce Patients’ Length of Stay and Overall Hospital Costs	6
Factors Associated With Advance Care Planning by Race	6
Predictive Factors of Death on Hospitalization in Patients With Advanced Cancer in Palliative Care	6
Valproic Acid in the Management of Delirium	6
Virtual Reality and Neurofeedback for Management of Cancer Symptoms: A Feasibility Pilot	6
Dementia and Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Associated With Less Intensive of End-of-Life Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study	6
Preparedness to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hospice and Palliative Care Services in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Rapid Online Survey	6
Evaluation of a Large Scale Advance Care Planning Co-Design Education Program for Chinese-Speaking People in Australia	6
Impact of legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying on the Use of Palliative Sedation in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Chart Review	6
Grief in Medical Students: The Short and Long-Term Impacts on Health and Well-Being	6
Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Improve Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation Processes	6
Insomnia Symptoms Among Hospice Family Caregivers: Prevalence and Association with Caregiver Mental and Physical Health, Quality of Life, and Caregiver Burden	6
Deprescribing in Older Adults With Cancer and Limited Life Expectancy: An Integrative Review	6
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	6
Using Participatory Action Research to Sustain Palliative Care Knowledge and Readiness Among Latino Community Leaders	6
Understanding Quality of Life for Palliative Patients With Dysphagia Using the Swallowing Quality of Life (SWAL-QOL) Questionnaire	6
The Specialty Chaplain on the Palliative Care Team: A Narrative Review	5
The Impact of Obesity in End of Life Care in Patients With End Stage Liver Disease: An Observational Study	5
Incidence of Delirium With Different Oral Opioids in Previously Opioid-Naive Patients	5
Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Hospice and Palliative Care: Instrument Validation Among Emergency Providers	5
Examining the Association of Billed Advance Care Planning With End-of-Life Hospital Admissions Among Advanced Cancer Patients in Hospice	5
Patterns of End-of-Life Care as Measured by Emergency Room Visits Among Cancer Patients in Puerto Rico	5
Validation of a Novel Clinical Dyspnea Scale – A Retrospective Pilot Study	5
What Surrogates Understand (and Don’t Understand) About Patients’ Wishes After Engaging Advance Care Planning: A Qualitative Analysis	5
Clinical Course for Patients With Trisomy 13 and 18 Pursuing Life-Prolonging Therapies Versus Comfort-Directed Care	5
A Multicenter Retrospective Review of Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment and Palliative Care Provided to Solid Tumor Oncology Patients in the 12 Weeks Preceding Death in Ireland	5
The Role of an Inpatient Hospice and Palliative Clinical Pharmacist in the Interdisciplinary Team	5
Frailty Recognition by Clinicians and its Impact on Advance Care Planning	5
Prognostic Nutritional Index in Patients With End-Stage Oral Cancer	5
Managing Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivorship: Communication Challenges and Opportunities as Described by Cancer Survivors	5
Lived Experience: A Case-Based Review of Trauma-Informed Hospice and Palliative Care at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	5
The Effect of Tele-palliative Care on Patient and Caregiver Outcomes: A Systematic Review	5
Teaching Empathic Communication to Pediatric Interns: Immediate and 3-Month Impact	5
Symptom Burden and Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Dependency Among Home Health care Patients Discharged to Home Hospice	5
Virtual Geritalk: Does Intensive Virtual Communication Skills Training Improve Use of Serious Illness Communication Skills?	5
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	5
Rural Palliative Care Telemedicine for Advanced Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review	5
Assisting People With Their Living, Not Their Dying: Health Professionals’ Perspectives of Palliative Care and Opioids in ILD	5
Pain Management Education for Rural Hospice Family Caregivers: A Pilot Study With Embedded Implementation Evaluation	5
Palliative Sedation, Compassionate Extubation, and the Principle of Double Effect: An Ethical Analysis	5
A Retrospective, Descriptive Study of Dyspnea Management in a Multidisciplinary Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic	5
Profile, Treatment, and Survival of Palliative Cancer Patients in a Middle Income Country’s Cancer Center	5
A Qualitative Study of the Role of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions and Experiences Among Critical Care Clinicians, Hospital Leaders, and Spiritual Care Providers	5
Palliative Care for the Interstitial Lung Disease Patient a Must and Not Just a Need	5
Advance Care Planning for Emergency Department Patients With COVID-19 Infection: An Assessment of a Physician Training Program	5
Barriers to the Use of Neurologic Criteria to Declare Death in Africa	5
“It Made Me Feel Like I Didn’t Know My Own Body”: Patient-Provider Relationships, LGBTQ+ Identity, and End-of-Life Discussions	5
Palliative Care Education During COVID-19: The MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mt. Zion	5
Symptom Prevalence and Place of Death Preference in Advanced Cancer Patients: Factors Associated With the Achievement of Home Death	5
Palliative Ventilator Withdrawal Practices in an Inpatient Hospice Unit	4

Palliative Care in Breast Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review	4
The Influence of Palliative Care in Hospital Length of Stay and the Timing of Consultation	4
Sexuality and Intimacy Needs Within a Hospitalized Palliative Care Population: Results From a Qualitative Study	4
Associations Between Health Literacy and End-of-Life Care Intensity Among Medicare Beneficiaries	4
Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care Delivery in Trauma Critical Illness	4
Sharing COMFORT Communication Training With Healthcare Professionals in Nairobi, Kenya: A Pilot Webinar Series	4
Recruitment, Retention and Intervention Delivery Experiences With Hospice Family Caregivers	4
Improving Advance Care Planning Documentation Using Reminders to Patients and Physicians: A Longitudinal Study in Primary Care	4
Communicating With Nursing Home Residents About End of Life	4
Effects of a Web-Based Pediatric Oncology Legacy Intervention on the Coping of Children With Cancer	4
An Instrument to Assess Self-Perceived Competencies in End-of-Life Care for Health Care Professionals: The End-of-Life Care Questionnaire	4
Advanced Care Planning and End-of-life Outcomes in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients	4
Clinical Experience Is Not a Proxy for Competence: Comparing Fellow and Medical Student Performance in a Breaking Bad News Simulation-Based Mastery Learning Curriculum	4
Home-Based Palliative Care Organizations Struggle to Survive and Thrive in a Competitive Market	4
Prolonged Grief and Bereavement Supports Within a Caregiver Population Who Transition Through a Palliative Care Program in British Columbia, Canada	4
Implementation Costs of Technology-Enhanced Transitional Palliative Care for Rural Caregivers	4
Lessons Learned From a Pilot Project on Telemedicine Advance Care Planning in an Urban Geriatric Primary Care Office	4
Development of a Longitudinal Dataset of Persons With Dementia and Their Caregivers Through End-of-Life: A Statistical Analysis System Algorithm for Joining National Health and Aging Trends Study/Nati	4
Exploring the Changes in Code Status During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Implications for Future Pandemic Care	4
Assessing Efficacy and Use Patterns of Medical Cannabis for Symptom Management in Elderly Cancer Patients	4
Conversations About Children When an Important Adult Is at End of Life: An Audit	4
Coping Skills Interventions for Fatigue in Adults with Hematologic Malignancies: A Systematic Review	4
Caregiver Challenges Seen From the Perspective of Certified Home Hospice Medical Directors	4
Caregiver Distress in Home Palliative Care	4
Economic Evaluation of Palliative Care Interventions: A Review of the Evolution of Methods From 2011 to 2019	4
Assessing the Feasibility and Implementation of Palliative Care Triggers in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit to Improve Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Patient and Family Care	4
Palliative Care Communication Among Home Health Interprofessional Staff: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness	4
End-of-Life Symptoms in Adult Patients With Stroke in the Last Two Years of Life: An Integrative Review	4
The Virulence of Grief in the Pandemic: Bereavement Overload During COVID	4
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Utilization of the Inpatient Hospice Services (General Inpatient Hospice)	4
Deciding to Live (or Not) With a Left Ventricular Assist Device-a Thematic Analysis Exploring Factors Influencing the Decision-Making Process in Advanced Heart Failure Patients in Singapore	4
Integrating Palliative Care Into a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (NS-ICU): A Quality Improvement (QI) Project	4
Full Code to Do-Not-Resuscitate: Culturally Adapted Palliative Care Consultations and Code Status Change Among Seriously Ill Hispanic Patients	4
Shared Death Experiences: A Little-Known Type of End-of-Life Phenomena Reported by Caregivers and Loved Ones	4
Covid-19 Mortality in an Acute Care Hospital: Association of Patient Factors With Decision to Forego the Intensive Care Unit	4
Developing the Future End-of-Life Health Care Workforce: Lessons Learned From a Survey of Advanced Health Professions Students	4
Patient-Level Factors Influencing Palliative Care Consultation at a Safety-Net Urban Hospital	4
The Impact of Words: Multisource Feedback Provides Students With a Deeper Understanding and Reflection on Goals of Care Discussions	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
Interim Analysis of Attrition Rates in Palliative Care Study on Dignity Therapy	4
Buccal Hydromorphone Syrup for Managing Dyspnea in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis	4
Treatment of Positive Urine Cultures at End-of-Life and the Effect on Terminal Delirium Management	4
Desire to Die Statements in the Era of Voluntary Assisted Dying: An Audit of Patients Known to a Victorian Consultation-Liaison Palliative Care Service	4