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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Palliative Medicine 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
In this Issue	78
Departing: Death and the Art of Dying	76
Advance Care Planning Practice Patterns Before and During a Pandemic	46
In this Issue	31
Communicating About Death by Neurologic Criteria #479	30
The True Cost of COVID-19	30
Getting from More to Enough: Leveraging Research, Policy, and Clinical Excellence to Grow Palliative Care	28
Family Caregiver Communication and Perceptions of Involvement in Hospice Care	27
Response to Downar J et al., Medical Assistance in Dying and Palliative Care: Shared Trajectories (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2023.0209)	27
“It Gives Me Peace of Mind So I Can Focus on Healing”: Views on Advance Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients	26
Specialty Palliative Care in a Code Blue: An Unexpected Role	24
Exploring Culturally Responsive Religious and Spirituality Health Care Communications among African Americans with Advanced Heart Failure, Their Family Caregivers, and Clinicians	24
Forgetting: A Poem	23
Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator Shocks at the End of Life	23
The Stone	23
A Breather during the Time of Breathlessness	23
A Crisis of Compassion	23
Eyes without a Face	22
Better in Virtually Every Way	21
Appetite-Related Distress Is Burdensome in the Last Sixty Days of Life of People Receiving Palliative Care: A National Longitudinal Consecutive Cohort Study	21
In this Issue	21
The Time Ahead	21
Does Urinary Catheterization Affect the Quality of Death in Patients with Advanced Cancer? A Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study	20
Response to Shalom J., Conundrum of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Insertion for Patients with Advanced Dementia and Dysphagia (DOI: 10.1089/JPM.2022.0524)	20
Performance of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in a Large Pragmatic Trial of Home-Based Palliative Care (HomePal): Methodological and Practical Considerations for Embedded Patient-Centered Design	20

Improving Outcomes for ICU Family Members: The Role of Spiritual Care	20
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Palliative Care: A Call to Action	20
Applying Digital Health in Cancer and Palliative Care in Europe: Policy Recommendations from an International Expert Workshop (MyPal Project)	19
Opioid Disposal Practices of Patients With Life-Limiting Cancers in an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic: A Cross-Sectional Study	19
Why Standard Drug Treatments for the “Death Rattle” Should Be Discontinued	18
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Providing Recommendations During Goals-of-Care Conversations: A Multisite Survey	18
Letter to the Editor: End-of-Life Care for Children within a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit	18
NECPAL Tool Aids Early Identification of Palliative Care Needs	18
Wins	17
Implanting an Intrathecal Port through a Retrograde Approach: A Useful Alternative	17
Response to Teno et al.: Bereaved Family More Likely to Report “Too Little” Care Than “Too Much” Care at the End of Life (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0498)	17
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Emerging Therapies That Can Also Palliate Symptoms #427	17
Turning the Table: Reflecting on the Anxiety and Vulnerability of Being a Clinician	16
Letter to the Editor: Respecting Patient Autonomy, End-of-Life Care Experience, and the Transitional Status	16
Editorial Note: Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care	16
Elements of Potentially Inappropriate Interventions and Patient Prognostic Profiles at the End of Life in Cardiology: A Qualitative Analysis	16
In this Issue	16
The In-Between Conversations: What Do We Talk About the Day After a Big Discussion?	16
Hospice and Comfort Care Patient Utilization of Emergency Medical Services	15
Walk with the Weary: Lessons from Humanity in Healthcare	15
Integrating Palliative Care Social Workers into Subacute Settings: Feasibility of the Assessing & Listening to Individual Goals and Needs Intervention Trial	15
Anticipatory Guidance in Dementia Across the Stages #455	15
Public Messaging for Serious Illness Care in the Age of Coronavirus Disease: Cutting through Misconceptions, Mixed Feelings, and Distrust	15
In this Issue	14
Gasping in Dying Children: Health Care Professionals' Feelings and Knowledge	14
Challenges of Providing Palliative and End-of-Life Care to Refugee Claimants in Canada: A Case Report	14
Does Geography Play a Role in the Receipt of End-of-Life Care for Advanced Cancer Patients? Evidence from an Australian Local Health District Population-Based Study	14
A Letter: Rose-Tinted Glasses Can't Hide the Current State of Palliative Care	14
Dolor	13
Forever Preserved	13
In Love	13
The Nurse with the Purple Hair	13
Letter to the Editor: Three Cases of Pain Treatment in Cancer Patients Using an Alternating Magnetic Field Therapy Device	13
Psychologically Informed Palliative Care and Beyond	13
In this Issue	13
Hope For the Best Plan For The Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis	12
“Seed Planting” As an Approach for Longitudinal Prognostic Disclosure in Pediatric Cancer: A Case Series	12
Analysis of Student Reflections on “What Matters Most” to Palliative Care Patients: A Narrative Medicine Exercise	12
Symptom Burden and Survival in Patients Receiving Outpatient and Home-Based Palliative Care	12
Defining Neonatal Serious Illness: Perspectives of Nurses and Social Workers	12
25 Year Anniversary: Looking Back, Looking Forward	12
Medical Assistance in Dying, Palliative Care, Safety, and Structural Vulnerability	12
Neuroablative Interventions for Refractory Pain #420	12
Letter to the Editor: Evidence of Effective Interventions for Clinically Significant Depressive Symptoms in Individuals with Extremely Short Prognoses Is Lacking: A Systematic Review	12
Caregiver Burden: An Important Target for Intervention in Inpatient and Outpatient Palliative Care Settings	12
Inhalation of Isopropyl Alcohol for the Management of Nausea and Vomiting: A Systematic Review	12
Unexpected	11
A Statewide Survey to Understand Barriers to Utilization of the Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment Form among Emergency Medical Service Providers	11
Management of Phantom Limb Pain after Amputation by Adjunctive Use of Mianserin in a Diabetic Case on Hemodialysis: A Case Report	11
Something Lost and Something Gained: Navigating the Bedside Teaching Role as a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Educator	11

Preparing for a Destination Therapy Ventricular Assist Device: The Palliative Care Planning Conversation #410	11
From Lifeguard to Lighthouse	11
Empathy: Real Stories to Inspire and Enlighten Busy Clinicians	11
Turf Wars: Integrating Palliative Care Social Work into a Large Pediatric Hospital	11
Effects of Anticholinergics on Death Rattle: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	10
Letter to the Editor: “The Platinum Rule Is My Own Rule”: A Mutual Process of Knowledge between Patients and Health Care Professionals	10
Words We Say When Patients Die	10
A Profound Distance	10
Chlorpromazine's Potential Role in Palliating Distressing Symptoms Associated With Hyperactive Delirium in Patients at End of Life	10
Characteristics of Patients and Proxy Caregivers Using Patient Portals in the Setting of Serious Illness and End of Life	10
Outpatient Palliative Care for Noncancer Illnesses: One Program's Experience with Implementation, Impact, and Lessons Learned	10
Love in the Time of Caregiving	10
Efficacy and Survival after Palliative Radiotherapy for Malignant Pulmonary Obstruction	10
Palliative Spine Surgery in a Patient with Advanced Cancer: A Case Report and Decision-Making Guide	10
Letter to the Editor: Offering Dignity Therapy to a Muslim Patient–Caregiver Dyad Assisted in Palliative Care: Multidisciplinary Intervention with the Essential Role of an Official Interpreter	10
Use of Peripheral μ-Opioid Receptor Antagonists for Treating Opioid-Induced Constipation among US Medicare Beneficiaries from 2014 to 2018	10
In this Issue	10
“The Patient Is Being Pressured!” Coercion Versus Relational Autonomy	10
Undue Influence versus Relational Autonomy in Clinical Decision Making #439	9
Associations of Intellectual Disability with Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Endotracheal Intubation at End of Life	9
Disclosure	9
How Long Does It Take?	9
In this Issue	9
Documenting a Death by Euthanasia	9
Letter to the Editor: Poor Access to Ambulatory Palliative Care and Needless Aggressive Care toward the End of Life among Patients with Lung Cancer	9
Knowledge and Attitudes of Hospice and Palliative Care Professionals toward Diversity and Religious Literacy in Cyprus: A Cross-Sectional Study	9
Family Matters	9
Individual Socioeconomic Factors Have a Greater Impact on End-of-Life Care Outcomes Than Regional Factors	9
Disruptions in Home Hospice Care due to the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Threading the Needle: When a Cranial Burr Hole Is Palliative Therapy	9
Analyzing Differences in Perception between Oncologists and Patients to Adapt Pharmacological Treatment for Breakthrough Cancer Pain: Observational ADAPTATE Study	9
Prevalence and Predictors of Symptoms in Persons with Advanced Dementia Living in the Community	9
The First Wave	9
Pediatric Palliative Care Referral Criteria Following Moderate or Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries	8
Goodbye Mama Bear	8
Revelations from a Machine Learning Analysis of the Most Downloaded Articles Published in Journal of Palliative Medicine 1999–2018	8
An Important Dinner	8
Letter to the Editor: Castling Against Death: A Chess-Based Insight into the Paradox of Physician-Assisted Suicide	8
The Asides	8
Patient and Caregiver Expression of Reluctance and Ambivalence During Palliative Care Encounters	8
Floating in the Swiftness of Time	8
In this Issue	8
Epidural Analgesia for End-of-Life Pain	8
Development of Objectives to Inform a National Standardized Primary Palliative Care Curriculum for Health Professions Students	8
There Are No Shortcuts: Eliciting Explicit Values to Provide Goal-Concordant Care	8
Multimodal Analgesic Strategies for Cancer-Related Oral Mucositis #450	8
Subanesthetic Ketamine Infusion Reducing Symptoms of Depression in a Patient With End-Stage Heart Failure Enrolled in Hospice Care: A Case Report	8
Letter to the Editor: Early Palliative Care Is Not Early Enough	8
The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, 2nd Edition	8
Interventions for Family Caregivers of Patients Receiving Palliative/Hospice Care at Home: A Scoping Review	8
Outcomes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients with Cancer and a Poor Performance Status #445	8
I Just Want It to Stop	8
Intermediate Strengths and Inflated Prices: The Story of Transdermal Fentanyl Patches	8
The Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) Presents the ICO Toolkit-2: An Updated, Spanish National Assessment Kit for Patients with Malignant Neoplasm in Palliative Care	7
Predictors of 2-Year Mortality in Patients Receiving Long-Term Oxygen Therapy: A Prospective Observational Study	7
Feasibility of a Palliative Care Intervention within Routine Care of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Poetry for Veterans: Using Poetry to Help Care for Patients in Palliative Care—A Case Series	7
Management of Symptomatic Refractory Hypoglycemia at the End of Life in a Nondiabetic Patient With Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma	7
Fast Facts and Concepts #483: Commonly Used Supplements for Cancer-Related Symptom Management	7
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Seizures at the End of Life	7
Antidepressant Prescribing Practices of Pediatric Palliative Care Providers	7
Prognostic Factors of Mortality in Nonchronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic Lung Disease: A Scoping Review	7
Training in Expression of Authentic Condolences in Healthcare: A Pilot Study	7
Aggressive End-of-Life Care in the Veterans Health Administration versus Fee-for-Service Medicare among Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer	7
Family Caregiver Problems in Outpatient Palliative Oncology	7
Virtual Interinstitutional Palliative Care Consultation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City	7
COVID-19: Symptoms in Dying Residents of Nursing Homes and in Those Admitted to Hospitals	7
A Good Day to Die for Deb	7
A Pilot Study of a Collaborative Palliative and Oncology Care Intervention for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer	7
Racial Differences in Burdensome Transitions in Heart Failure Patients with Palliative Care: A Propensity-Matched Analysis	7
Reliable and Valid Survey-Based Measures to Assess Quality of Care in Home-Based Serious Illness Programs	7
Letter to the Editor: Advancing the Psychological Elements of Palliative Care: From Theory to Teaching	7
Letter to the Editor: Grief Education in Medical School: Preparing Students for the Future	7
Letter to the Editor: Evidence Before Action: The Essential Search for Evidence-Based Principles in France's Assisted Dying Legislation	7
State of the Service: Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Community-Based Service Coverage in the United States	7
My COVID Experience: “I Wish It Was Different”	7
Pharmacokinetics of Subcutaneous Levetiracetam in Palliative Care Patients	7
“Good Grief”: An Opportunity to Grow, Integrate, or Something Else?	7
Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy And Hope. Second Edition	7
Response to: Anandarajah G et al., Trust As a Central Factor in Hospice Enrollment Disparities Among Ethnic and Racial Minority Patients: A Qualitative Study of Interrelated and Compounding Factors Im	7

Variability among Online Opioid Conversion Calculators Performing Common Palliative Care Conversions	7
“Who Has the Relationship?”: Caring for a Shared Population of Children with Medical Complexity	7
Caring for Patients With Opioid Misuse or Substance Use Disorders in Hospice: A National Survey	7
Cost of Pediatric Concurrent Hospice Care: An Economic Analysis of Relevant Cost Components, Review of the Literature, and Case Illustration	7
Subcutaneous Administration of Medications and Fluids by Nonprofessional Caregivers at Home	7
Racial Differences in Treatment Intensity at the End of Life Among Older Adults with Heart Failure: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	7
Prognostic Understanding, Goals of Care, and Quality of Life in Hospitalized Patients with Leukemia or Multiple Myeloma	7
Debriefing Challenging Clinical Encounters: The Pause Framework #474	7
Effect of Exercise on Fatigue in Patients with Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials	7
That Which May Not Be Named	7
Palliative Care Interventions in Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Integrative Review	7
Training Chaplains to Provide Communication-Board-Guided Spiritual Care for Intensive Care Unit Patients	7
Evaluating the Thresholds for Clinical Importance of the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL in Patients Receiving Palliative Treatment	7
Reduction in Potentially Inappropriate Interventions in Trauma Patients following a Palliative Care Consultation	7
Caring for People We Know: An Unrecognized Risk for Burnout?	7
Home Health Care and Hospice Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With and Without a Diagnosis of Dementia	6
Interdisciplinary Pain Board for Managing Patients with Palliative Care Needs and Substance Use Disorder: A Pilot Study	6
Differences in End-of-Life Care Between Patients Who Died of Cancer Diseases and Those Who Died of Noncancer Diseases	6
The Attitudes and Experiences of Hospice Nurses Regarding Palliative Sedation: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study	6
The Growing Influence of the Financial Sector in Serious Illness Care in the United States	6
Actual Solidarity through Virtual Support: A Pilot Descriptive Study of an Online Support Group for Bereaved Parents	6
Social Model Hospice Homes: Bridging the Gap in End-of-Life Care Delivery	6
A Process Evaluation of a Palliative Care Social Work Intervention for Cancer Patients in Skilled Nursing Facilities	6
Palliative Care Education: The Past, Present, and Future	6
The Supportive Oncology Collaborative: Expanding upon Collaborative Care to Increase Supportive Care Access in Underserved Populations	6
Let's Do This: Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Hospice and Palliative Care	6
Palliative Family Conference Reduces the Risk of Death in Intensive Care Units and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation at End of Life	6
Health Utility of Pain Response Versus Nonresponse to Palliative Radiation Therapy for Symptomatic Bone Metastases: Analyses Based on Real-World Data from 26 Centers	6
Nursing Home Residents With Dementia at End of Life: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Acute Hospital Deaths	6
Improving Palliative Care and Quality of Life in Pancreatic Cancer Patients	6
Psilocybin: Medicine for My Soul. Relief from Emotional and Spiritual Pain as a Hospice Nurse Diagnosed with Cancer	6
Top Ten Tips Palliative Clinicians Should Know About Rural Palliative Care in the United States	6
Rural Palliative Care Patients' Attitudes toward Telemedicine Visits during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Study	6
Fast Facts and Concepts #485 Developing a Shared “Headline” before a Family Meeting	6
Role of Home Health for Community-Dwelling Older Adults Near the End of Life: A Resource Beyond Hospice?	6
Patient Perspectives on Serious Illness Conversations in Primary Care	6
A View from the Frontline: Palliative and Ethical Considerations of the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Palliative Care Use Trends, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and Overall Survival Differences Among Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer	6
Dignity, Memory, and Final Wishes of Dying Children	6
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Music Therapy and Art Therapy	6
Early Palliative Home Care versus Hospital Care for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: A Cost-Effectiveness Study	6
Using Social Convoy Theory to Identify and Recruit Caregivers of Older Adults with Serious Illness for Palliative Care Research: A Comparative Analysis	6
Implementing a Clinic-Based Telehealth Support Service (FamilyStrong) for Family Caregivers of Individuals with Grade IV Brain Tumors	6
Patient–Family Experience at the Onset of COVID-19: Interviews with Ten Palliative Chaplains	6
Expanding the Palliative Care Workforce during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Evaluation of Core Palliative Care Skills in Health Social Workers	6
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Prognostication in Children	6
Narrative Medicine Interventions for Advance Care Planning in Parkinson’s Disease	6
Letter to the Editor: Educating Patients With Advanced Heart Failure Through Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer and Natural-Language Artificial Intelligence: Is Now the Time for It?	6
Social Determinants of Comfort: A New Term for End-of-Life Care	6
Palliative Care Interventions for Peripheral Artery Disease: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis	6
Association of Functional Status and Symptom Severity Among Patients Who Received Palliative Care Consultations	6
Does an Integrated Palliative Care Program Reduce Emergency Department Transfers for Nursing Home Palliative Residents?	6
A Consensus Definition of End of Life from an International and Interdisciplinary Perspective: A Delphi Panel Study	6
Education Programs for Informal Caregivers of Noncancer Patients in Home-Based Palliative Care: A Scoping Review	6
Cancer Patients' Experiences with and Perspectives on the Medicinal Cannabis “High”	5
Sharing His Warmth	5
Advance Care Planning and Transitions to Comfort Measures after Stroke	5
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About the Physical Manifestations of Psychiatric Illness and Treatment	5
Death by Chocolate: The Palliative Management of Dysphagia	5
What Matters to Older Native Hawaiians?: A Qualitative Study of Care Preferences	5
Letter to the Editor: Medical Interpreters as Coaches for Pediatric Palliative Care Clinicians	5
Medical Assistance in Dying and Palliative Care: Shared Trajectories	5
Research Protocol of the Polish Adaptation and Validation of HOPE Scale: Qualitative Measurement of Patients' Spiritual Needs	5
“You Are Not Alone”: The Allure and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in Serious Illness Communication	5
“I Am Not the Same Man…”: A Case Report of Management of Post-COVID Refractory Dyspnea	5
The Use of Olanzapine for Nonmedical Opioid Use in a Patient with Cancer Receiving Palliative Care	5
Five Journeys of Healing	5
Letter to the Editor: The Development of an Organizational End-of-Life Care Benchmarking Dashboard	5
Letter to the Editor: Tele-Palliative Care among Underserved Patients: Considerations for Future Research to Ensure Equity for All Patients	5
Loneliness in Seriously Ill Nursing Home Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms	5
Influence of COMT (rs4680) and OPRM1 (rs1799971) on Cancer Pain, Opioid Dose, and Adverse Effects	5
Attitudes of Patients with Advanced Chronic Illnesses Toward Palliative Extubation in a Country Where It Is Illegal	5
Letter to the Editor: “No-Shows” and Missed Opportunities: Reasons for Missed In-Person and Telehealth Appointments in an Ambulatory Palliative Care Program	5
Letter to the Editor: Effects of Add-On Metolazone to High-Dose Oral Frusemide on Refractory Fluid Overload in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease Opting for Conservative Management	5
Delirium Motor Subtypes and Severity of Physical Symptoms in Patients with Advanced Cancer in Inpatient Hospice/Palliative Care Units: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study	5
High Dyspnea Score, a Trigger for Specialist Palliative Care Utilization—Results from a Cohort Study on the Predictors of High Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use in COVID-19 Patients	5
Hyponatremia with Antidepressant: A Rare Side Effect from Duloxetine in a Child with Acute Leukemia	5
Countrywide Situational Analysis of Palliative Care in Bolivia	5
Early Versus Late Outpatient Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation and Its Association With End-of-Life Outcomes in Children With Cancer	5
Recent Literature	5
Memorial Service	5
If EQ-5D-5L Mobility Dimension Ratings Are High, Is Life-Space Assessment a Clinically Sensible Next Step? Data from a Population Survey	5
Palliative Care Interventions for Persons With Neurodegenerative Disease: A Scoping Review of Clinical Trial Study Design Features	5
Tele-Assisted Home-Based Palliative Care Reduces Health Care Costs for Terminal Cancer Patients: Real-World Evidence From a Regional Hospital in Taiwan	5
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Navigating the Needs of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities	5
Palliative Care and Intensivists’ Different Perspectives on Specialist Palliative Care Engagement in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Care	5
How Other Specialists See Palliative CareUncovering Their Deep Metaphors to Improve Our Initial Outreach Strategies	5
Feasibility and Clinical Usefulness of a Novel Nonwearable Sheet-Type Monitor (Nemuri SCAN): Prognostic Value of Increased Respiratory Rate in Actively Dying Patients	5
Mortality Review Committee: Understanding Inpatient and 30-Day Mortality at a Comprehensive Cancer Center	5
Providing Palliative Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals: A Qualitative Interview Study of Physicians’ Attitudes and Experiences	5
A Place for Crisis Resource Management in Palliative Care	5
Permanent Tunneled Drainage of Ascites in Palliative Patients: Timing Needs Evaluation	5
Chant to Kill a Snake	5
Communication Strategies for Providing Palliative Care via Telemedicine #406	5