BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Article	Citations
Hospice care access inequalities: a systematic review and narrative synthesis	59
Acupuncture for palliative cancer pain management: systematic review	48
Symptom clusters in patients receiving chemotherapy: A systematic review	33
Cardiorespiratory fitness in breast cancer survivors: a randomised controlled trial of home-based smartphone supported high intensity interval training	30
Newly diagnosed cancer and the COVID-19 pandemic: tumour stage migration and higher early mortality	29
Global quality of life in breast cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Inappropriate end-of-life cancer care in a generalist and specialist palliative care model: a nationwide retrospective population-based observational study	26
Central catheter-associated deep vein thrombosis in cancer: clinical course, prophylaxis, treatment	26
Anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in hospital staff: systematic review plus meta-analysis	24
Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study	23
Global palliative care research (2002-2020): bibliometric review and mapping analysis	22
Healthcare trajectories and costs in the last year of life: a retrospective primary care and hospital analysis	21
Asymptomatic COVID-19 infection: diagnosis, transmission, population characteristics	20
Decision-making in palliative care: patient and family caregiver concordance and discordance—systematic review and narrative synthesis	19
Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool prognostic value in older hospitalised patients: a prospective multicentre study	19
Telehealth: rapid adoption in community palliative care due to COVID-19: patient and professional evaluation	19
End-of-life care in natural disasters including epidemics and pandemics: a systematic review	18
Pandemic ICU triage challenge and medical ethics	18
Improved cancer-related fatigue in a randomised clinical trial: methylphenidate no better than placebo	18
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: a claims data cross-sectional study of geographical variation	18
Virtual reality in specialist palliative care: a feasibility study to enable clinical practice adoption	18
Efficacy and safety of pharmacological cachexia interventions: systematic review and network meta-analysis	17
Virtual reality in hospice: improved patient well-being	17
Breaking bad news: tackling cultural dilemmas	16
Healthcare use and costs in the last year of life: a national population data linkage study	16

Duloxetine for prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Telenursing home care and COVID-19: a qualitative study	16
Double-edged MAiD death family legacy: a qualitative descriptive study	15
Prognostic disclosure in oncology - current communication models: a scoping review	15
Harmful consequences of COVID-19 fear in patients with cancer	14
Primary-level palliative care national capacity: Pallium Canada	14
End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death	14
Dignity therapy, psycho-spiritual well-being and quality of life in the terminally ill: systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Early palliative/supportive care in acute myeloid leukaemia allows low aggression end-of-life interventions: observational outpatient study	14
AI-based clinical decision-making systems in palliative medicine: ethical challenges	14
Experiences of fathers of children with a life-limiting condition: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis	13
Mindful gratitude journaling: psychological distress, quality of life and suffering in advanced cancer: a randomised controlled trial	13
Advance care planning and caregiver outcomes: intervention efficacy – systematic review	13
The wish to die and hastening death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A scoping review	13
Family carer needs in advanced disease: systematic review of reviews	13
Palliative care in critically ill COVID-19 patients: the early New York City experience	13
Opioids impair nivolumab outcomes: a retrospective propensity score analysis in non-small-cell lung cancer	12
Nutrition and physical activity: French intergroup clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO, ACHBT, AFC, SFP-APA, SFNCM, AF	12
Research participation in palliative medicine—benefits and barriers for patients and families: rapid review and thematic synthesis	11
Distress Thermometer in breast cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Advance care planning in nursing homes: new conversation and documentation tools	11
Exercise intervention and sexual function in advanced prostate cancer: a randomised controlled trial	10
To be mortal is human: professional consensus around the need for more psychology in palliative care	10
Designing the physical environment for inpatient palliative care: a narrative review	10
Randomised trial of a serious illness decision aid (Plan Well Guide) for patients and their substitute decision-makers to improve engagement in advance care planning	10
Nutritional status and symptom burden in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: results of the dietetic assessment and intervention in lung cancer (DAIL) trial	10
Serious Illness Conversations in advanced kidney disease: a mixed-methods implementation study	10
Androgen deprivation therapy and radiation for prostate cancer—cognitive impairment, sleep, symptom burden: a prospective study	10
Cancer-related fatigue—pharmacological interventions: systematic review and network meta-analysis	9
Subcutaneous furosemide in advanced heart failure: service improvement project	9
Wish to die and hasten death in palliative care: a cross-sectional study factor analysis	9
Public knowledge and attitudes concerning palliative care	9
Clinical nurse specialists and survival in patients with cancer: the UK National Cancer Experience Survey	9
Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis	9
mHOMR: a prospective observational study of an automated mortality prediction model to identify patients with unmet palliative needs	9
Specialist palliative care classification: typology development	9
Dysphagia screening post-stroke: systematic review	9
Limitations in health professionals’ knowledge of end-of-life law: a cross-sectional survey	9
Breast cancer survivors–supportive care needs: systematic review	8
Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis—health-related quality of life: systematic review plus meta-analysis	8
Core elements of serious illness conversations: an integrative systematic review	8
Telemedicine for outpatient palliative care during COVID-19 pandemics: a longitudinal study	8
Building on sand: digital technologies for care coordination and advance care planning	8
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)-enhanced communication skills: development and evaluation of a novel training programme	8
Patient awareness of palliative care: systematic review	8
Pulmonary referrals to specialist palliative medicine: a survey	8
Action plans in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a qualitative study—‘I do what I can do’	8
‘Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) improves renal nurses’ confidence in recognising patients approaching end of life’	8
Serious Illness Care Programme—contextual factors and implementation strategies: a qualitative study	8
Informal caregivers and advance care planning: systematic review with qualitative meta-synthesis	8

NECPAL prognostic tool: a palliative medicine retrospective cohort study	8
Spiritual interventions for cancer pain: a systematic review and narrative synthesis	8
Medical cannabis is effective for cancer-related pain: Quebec Cannabis Registry results	7
Early palliative intervention: effects on patient care satisfaction in advanced cancer	7
Grief and bereavement of family and friends around medical assistance in dying: scoping review	7
Efficacy and safety of subcutaneous clonidine for refractory symptoms in palliative medicine: a retrospective study	7
Unmet spiritual needs in palliative care: psychometrics of a screening checklist	7
‘Advance care planning, general practitioners and patients: a phase II cluster-randomised controlled trial in chronic life-limiting illness’	7
Opioid safety recommendations in adult palliative medicine: a North American Delphi expert consensus	7
Spiritual well-being, dignity-related distress and demoralisation at the end of life-effects of dignity therapy: a randomised controlled trial	7
The Surprise Question	7
Respiratory distress symptom intervention for non-pharmacological management of the lung cancer breathlessness–cough–fatigue symptom cluster: randomised controlled trial	7
Access for Cancer Caregivers to Education and Support for Shared Decision Making (ACCESS) intervention: a cluster cross-over randomised clinical trial	7
Prospective oversight and approval of assisted dying cases in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative study of doctors’ perspectives	7
Quality of dying and death in intensive care units: family satisfaction	7
Cancer survivors and neurotoxic chemotherapy: hearing loss and tinnitus	7
Parental terminal cancer and dependent children: a systematic review	7
Anxiety and depression prevalence in digestive cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Cancer survivors 75 years and older: physical, emotional and practical needs	7
Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation—clinical outcomes: impact of leg muscle strength	7
Prognosis palliative care study, palliative prognostic index, palliative prognostic score and objective prognostic score in advanced cancer: a prospective comparison	7
Early palliative care and quality of dying and death in patients with advanced cancer	7
Specialised outpatient paediatric palliative care team–parent collaboration: narrative interviews with parents	7
Naltrexone for cholestatic itch: a systematic review	7
Depression and complicated grief in bereaved caregivers in cardiovascular diseases: prevalence and determinants	7
Community access to palliative care medicines—patient and professional experience: systematic review and narrative synthesis	6
Preference and actual place-of-death in advanced cancer: prospective longitudinal study	6
Best supportive care and prognosis: advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma	6
End-of-life care for older first-generation migrants: a scoping review	6
Group-led creative writing and behavioural health in cancer: a randomised clinical trial	6
Prostate cancer: unmet supportive and palliative care needs: national survey of patients and family carers	6
Physician emotional experience of communication and decision making with end-of-life patients: qualitative studies systematic review	6
‘Palliative care education in nursing homes: a qualitative evaluation of telementoring	6
COVID-19 deaths in care homes: primary care management study	6
Psychological well-being of hospice staff: systematic review	6
What do we know about patients’ perspectives and expectations relating to palliative and end-of-life care in advanced liver disease? A systematic review of qualitative literature using ENTREQ guidelin	6
Palliative care environments for patient, family and staff well-being: an ethnographic study of non-standard design	6
Incompatible: end-of-life care and health economics	6
Healthcare interpreters and difficult conversations: a survey	6
Seizures in palliative medicine: brivaracetam	6
Unplanned hospitalisations in older people: illness trajectories in the last year of life	6
Mapping palliative care provision in European prisons: an EAPC Task Force Survey	6
Duration of palliative care involvement and cancer care aggressiveness near the end of life	6
Quality of life support in advanced cancer—web and technological interventions: systematic review and narrative synthesis	6
Antibiotic use towards the end of life: development of good practice recommendations	6
Palliative care integration indicators: an European regional analysis	6
Palliative care for homeless and vulnerably housed people: scoping review and thematic synthesis	6
Symptom clusters in oncology outpatients: stability and consistency across a cycle of chemotherapy	6
Advance directives and real-world end-of-life clinical practice: a case–control study	6
Febrile neutropenia prophylaxis, G-CSF physician preferences: discrete-choice experiment	6
Patient card games in palliative care: integrative review	6
How Leaders, Teams and Organisations can prevent Burnout and build Resilience: a thematic analysis’	5
Global health-related quality of life in schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Antimicrobial use at the end of life: a scoping review	5
Increased legalisation of medical assistance in dying: relationship to palliative care	5
Emergency department presentations in palliative care patients: a retrospective cohort study	5
Death from cancer: frequent unscheduled care	5
The ‘Surprise question’ in heart failure: a prospective cohort study	5
Inoperable malignant bowel obstruction: palliative interventions outcomes – mixed-methods systematic review	5
Advance care planning participation by people with dementia: a cross-sectional survey and medical record audit	5
Finalising the administration of co-SSPedi, a dyad approach to symptom screening for paediatric patients receiving cancer treatments	5
Glioma patient-reported outcomes: patients and clinicians	5
Patient–caregiver dyads advance care plan value discussions: randomised controlled cancer trial of video decision support tool	5
Lack of racial diversity within the palliative medicine workforce: does it affect our patients?	5
Clinical decision support system to optimise symptom management in palliative medicine: focus group study	5
Depression prevalence in cardiovascular disease: global systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Symptoms of advanced cancer in palliative medicine: a longitudinal study	5
Sarcopenia and anthracycline cardiotoxicity in patients with cancer	5
Multidisciplinary team meetings in palliative care: an ethnographic study	5
Telemedicine family meetings in palliative care: etiquette	5
Oregon Death with Dignity Act access: 25 year analysis	5
Physicians’ views on the usefulness and feasibility of identifying and disclosing patients’ last phase of life: a focus group study	5
Percutaneous cervical cordotomy for cancer-related pain: prospective multimodal outcomes evaluation	5
Performance status and survival in cancer patients undergoing palliative care: retrospective study	5
Symptom prevalence and severity in palliative cancer medicine	5
Underutilisation of EPaCCS (Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems) in end-of life-care: a cross-sectional study	5
Fibrotic interstitial lung disease - palliative care needs: a World-Café qualitative study	5
Aberrant opioid use behaviour in advanced cancer	5
Primary palliative care integrated model in paediatric ICU: an international cross-sectional study	5
Influence of individual, illness and environmental factors on place of death among people with neurodegenerative diseases: a retrospective, observational, comparative cohort study	5

Peripheral nerve blocks in advanced cancer pain: retrospective case series	5
Hospice delivery models and survival differences in the terminally ill: a large cohort study	5
Neutropenic versus regular diet for acute leukaemia induction chemotherapy: randomised controlled trial	5
Early palliative care in newly diagnosed cancer in Ethiopia: feasibility randomised controlled trial and cost analysis	5
Pegfilgrastim safety and efficacy on the last chemotherapy day versus the next: systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Missing data in palliative care research: estimands and estimators	4
Haematological cancer versus solid tumour end-of-life care: a longitudinal data analysis	4
Assisted dying request assessments by trained consultants: changes in practice and quality - Repeated cross-sectional surveys (2008–2019)	4
Status, demand and practice models of palliative day-care clinics and day hospices: a scoping review	4
Psychosocial screening instruments to assist support consultants in patients with cancer	4
Therapeutic thoracentesis symptoms and activity: a qualitative study	4
Palliative care development in India: new WHO conceptual model	4
Physiotherapy in palliative medicine: patient and caregiver wellness	4
Hospital end-of-life care: families’ free-text notes	4
Designing a clinical trial of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for cancer pain: a survey of UK palliative care physicians	4
Lung cancer deaths (England 2001–2017)—comorbidities: a national population-based analysis	4
The carbon footprint of a hospice	4
Effects of specialised nutritional interventions in patients with incurable cancer: a systematic review	4
Parkinson’s disease – palliative care needs assessment tool: adaptation and psychometric testing	4
Hypnosis and music interventions for anxiety, pain, sleep and well-being in palliative care: systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Existential distress in family caregivers: scoping review of meaning-making interventions	4
Cancer services patient experience in England: quantitative and qualitative analyses of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey	4
Constipation and GI diagnoses in children with solid tumours: prevalence and management	4
Cyclosporine: hope for severe COVID-19?	4
Coping in patients with pancreatic cancer: a scoping review and narrative synthesis	4
Parental death: a systematic review of support experiences and needs of children and parent survivors	4
Early prehabilitation in suspected locally advanced and metastatic lung cancer	4
Palliative medicine in the intensive care unit: needs, delivery, quality	4
Methadone and neuropathic cancer pain subcomponents: a prospective cohort pilot study	4
Inadequate completion of advance care directives by individuals with dementia: national audit of health and aged care facilities	4
Prolonged grief disorder prevalence in adults 65 years and over: a systematic review	4
Burnout in Palliative Care - Difficult Cases: Qualitative Study	4
Bleeding management in palliative medicine: subcutaneous tranexamic acid - retrospective chart review	4
Advance and future care planning: strategic approaches in Wales	4
Iron deficiency in patients with cancer: a prospective cross-sectional study	4
Mindfulness-based supportive therapy on reducing suffering in patients with advanced cancer: randomised controlled trial	4
Cancer palliative care referral: patients’ and family caregivers’ perspectives – a systematic review	4
Cannabis consumption in young adults with cancer: descriptive study	4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma experiences, views and needs in palliative and end of life care: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis	4
Cancer centre supportive oncology service: health economic evaluation	4
Prognostic disclosure and quality of life in palliative care: a systematic review	4
Palliative sedation outside a palliative care unit	4
Burnout in physicians: a survey of the Danish society for palliative medicine	4
Unmet care needs of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives: multicentre observational study	4
Spiritual conversation model for patients and loved ones in palliative care: a validation study	4
COVID-19 emergency and palliative medicine: an intervention model’	4
End-of-life and immediate postdeath acute hospital interventions: scoping review	4
Rate of cannabis use in older adults with cancer	4
Acupuncture for postprostatectomy incontinence: a systematic review	4
SPIDER as a framework to formulate eligibility criteria in qualitative systematic reviews	4
Paediatric end-of-life care – symptoms and problems: parent assessment	3
Acute palliative care units: characteristics, activities and outcomes – scoping review	3
Tools for guiding interventions to address patient-perceived multidimensional unmet healthcare needs in palliative care: systematic literature review	3
Malignant bowel obstruction symptoms: subcutaneous bolus esomeprazole-retrospective case series	3
Maternal grief: analysis and therapeutic recommendations	3
Assistive technology in palliative medicine: equipment needs	3
Anticipatory grief prevalence among caregivers of persons with a life-threatening illness: A meta-analysis	3
Palliative care in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: looking back, thinking ahead	3
Caregivers of patients with cancer: perceived stress, quality of life and immune function	3
Public knowledge, preferences and experiences about medical substitute decision-making: a national cross-sectional survey	3
Propofol for painful procedures in palliative care	3
Advance care planning and health literacy in older dialysis patients: qualitative interview study	3
Palliation of heart failure: value-based supportive care	3
Music therapy effectiveness by duration in patients with cancer: a meta-regression	3
Cancer patient management: role of multidisciplinary teams	3
Seeking Excellence in End of Life Care UK (SEECare UK): a UK multi-centred service evaluation	3
Community prescribing for cancer patients at the end of life: a national study	3
Unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: transarterial chemoembolisation plus Huachansu – a single-center randomised controlled trial	3
Skeletal muscle mass recovery after oesophagectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal cancer: retrospective cohort study	3
Anticholinergic drugs for death rattle in dying patients with cancer: multicentre prospective cohort study	3
Death from COVID-19: management of breathlessness: a retrospective multicentre study	3
Palliative care phenotypes among critically ill patients and family members: intensive care unit prospective cohort study	3
Bespoke 3D printed eye cover for teen with rhabdomyosarcoma	3
Ought the level of sedation to be reduced during deep palliative sedation? A clinical and ethical analysis	3
Anticipatory syringe pumps: benefits and risks	3
Chronic breathlessness in advanced cardiorespiratory disease: patient perceptions of opioid use	3
Efficacy of models of palliative care delivered beyond the traditional physician-led, subspecialty consultation service model: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
One-year efficacy and safety of naloxegol on symptoms and quality of life related to opioid-induced constipation in patients with cancer: KYONAL study	3
Dexmedetomidine withdrawal syndrome and opioid sensitivity	3
Use of opioids in patients with cancer with hepatic impairment—a systematic review	3
Describing taste changes and their potential impacts on paediatric patients receiving cancer treatments	3
Professionals guidance about palliative medicine in chronic heart failure: a mixed-method study	3
Distinct morning and evening fatigue profiles in gastrointestinal cancer during chemotherapy	3
Advanced prostate cancer experimental radioactive treatment—clinical trial decision making: patient experiences	3
Palliative medicine video consultations in the pandemic: patient feedback	3
Integrative oncology in cancer care – implementation factors: mixed-methods systematic review	3
Geographical distance and reduced access to palliative radiotherapy: systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Advance care planning evaluation: a scoping review of best research practice	3
Medical cannabis for refractory cancer-related pain in a specialised clinical service: a cross-sectional study	3
Advance care planning imperative: High-quality patient-centred goals of care	3
Morphine for chronic breathlessness in COPD: improvement predictors-cross-sectional study	3
Life-limiting fetal conditions and pregnancy continuation: parental decision-making processes	3
Immersive virtual reality and psychological well-being in adult chronic physical illness: systematic review	3
Addressing inequitable access to hospice care	3
Quality of life in paediatric solid tumours: a randomised study of metronomic chemotherapy versus placebo	3