BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Malignant insulinoma hypoglycaemia: complex palliative management46
Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from breast cancer: an ambiguous entity43
Anti-fibrinolytics for mucosal bleeding in adults with life-limiting illnesses: a systematic review38
Clinical emergencies in inpatient hospice: simulation-based training to improve nursing confidence33
COVID-19 deaths in care homes: primary care management study33
Palliative medicine specialist and general practitioner interactions: national survey33
Public knowledge and attitudes concerning palliative care31
Cancer patient navigation30
Burnout and attachment in oncology and palliative care healthcare professionals28
Patient–caregiver dyads advance care plan value discussions: randomised controlled cancer trial of video decision support tool27
Cancer pain management: long-term maintenance therapy23
Alfentanil conversion ratios and successful analgesia23
From COVID-19 adversity comes opportunity: teaching an online integrative medicine course23
Edmonton symptom assessment system global distress score and overall survival among patients with advanced cancer receiving early palliative care22
Artificial intelligence and large language models in palliative medicine clinical practice and education22
The clock is ticking: can palliative care survive the dual crises of time and workforce shortages?22
Cardiac dysfunction in solid tumours: scoping review22
Ambulatory palliative care and cancer symptom control: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Video consultations in community palliative care – patient satisfaction: mixed methods study20
Fatigue in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia: general population comparison and predictive factors20
Duloxetine for prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): systematic review and meta-analysis20
Existential distress in family caregivers: scoping review of meaning-making interventions18
Palliative care utilisation globally by cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis18
Support programme for bereaved relatives: a retrospective observational study18
AI-based clinical decision-making systems in palliative medicine: ethical challenges17
Oral morphine versus transmucosal diamorphine for breakthrough pain in children: methods and outcomes: UK (DIPPER study) consensus17
Palliative physiotherapy in community settings for people with terminal illness17
Ethnicity and palliative care: we need better data – five key considerations16
Palliative surgery in metastatic gastric cancer: analysis (2007–2021)16
Percutaneous cervical cordotomy for chest wall pain from mesothelioma in the setting of neuromyelitis15
Subcutaneous proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in palliative medicine15
Proxy medical decision-making: national survey15
Seizures in palliative medicine: brivaracetam15
Communication skills: simulated patient goals of care workshop for acute care clinicians15
Challenges with cancer pain management: novel opioid shortages and cancer trials restrictions14
Palliative radiotherapy: a one-week course in advanced head and neck cancer – quality of life outcomes14
Emergency department patient diagnostic communication: cohort study14
Care of the dying – medical student confidence and preparedness: mixed-methods simulation study13
End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death13
Deodorant pad for ulcerated breast cancer: safety and efficacy12
Morphine for chronic breathlessness in COPD: improvement predictors-cross-sectional study12
That’s right: palliative care is not simple12
Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis12
Beyond the physical realm: exploring the relationship between spiritual well-being and spiritual care competence11
Skin rash after immunomodulatory drugs for plasma cell neoplasms: effective practical corticosteroid desensitisation regimen11
Medical cannabis use in young adults with cancer: a self-reported survey study11
Central catheter-associated deep vein thrombosis in cancer: clinical course, prophylaxis, treatment11
Quality of death educational programme in a national reference palliative care unit11
Living with breathlessness: quality improvement project to enhance staff confidence and patient self-management11
Inpatient deaths by medical service: characteristics in a comprehensive cancer centre11
The use and timing of rehabilitation and palliative care to cancer patients, and the influence of social vulnerability – a population-based study11
Patient experiences in high-grade gliomas: from symptoms to radiotherapy10
End-of-life experiences in advanced cancer: gender differences10
State-wide telephone support: enhanced palliative care service delivery10
Cancer survivor inspiratory muscle training: systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis10
Deaths in critical care and hospice—prevalence, trends, influences: a national decedent cohort study10
Spiritual dimension in palliative medicine: a qualitative study of learning tasks: medical students, teachers, educationalists10
Palliative sedation and time to death in home palliative care: retrospective analysis10
Death from COVID-19: management of breathlessness: a retrospective multicentre study10
Wernicke’s encephalopathy in advanced cancer10
Relationship between dyspnoea and related factors in patients with cancer: a cross-sectional study9
Symptoms, performance status and phase of illness in advanced cancer: multicentre cross-sectional study of palliative care unit admissions9
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency9
Esomeprazole for subcutaneous infusion: compatibility with other alkaline medications9
Health-related quality of life and frailty in liver cirrhosis9
Olanzapine cost-effectiveness in vomiting and nausea from highly emetogenic chemotherapy in children and adolescents9
Symptom reduction in advanced cancer from multi-session mindful breathing: randomised controlled study9
End-of-life care in illicit drug users: mapping medication use9
Young-onset colorectal cancer: treatment-related nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea9
Fast-track hospital end-of-life discharge pathway: is it actually fast? National clinical audit9
Pharmacogenomics and symptom management in palliative and supportive care: A scoping review9
Specialist palliative care classification: typology development9
Medically assisted dying in Western Europe: legislation review – what has changed in 5 years?9
Regional hospice and palliative care networks worldwide: scoping review8
End of life care in paediatric settings: UK national survey8
Physical activity and supportive care intervention preferences: a cross-sectional study of barriers in advanced cancer8
Medical oncologists and supportive/palliative care education: prevention of fragmented care8
Dexamethasone and hiccups: a 2000-patient, telephone-based study8
Advance care planning and caregiver outcomes: intervention efficacy – systematic review8
Patient experiences of randomised placebo-controlled trial participation during end-of-life palliative cancer care8
Anxiety and depression prevalence in digestive cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis8
Uncertainty and hope in relation to anxiety and depression in advanced lung cancer8
Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis—health-related quality of life: systematic review plus meta-analysis8
Stress and sleep quality in palliative care8
Palliative care environments for patient, family and staff well-being: an ethnographic study of non-standard design8
Beta-blockers for tenacious saliva: a case report7
Death from cancer: frequent unscheduled care7
Extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) and palliative care disparities: a national cancer database study7
Rare cause of dyspnoea: phenazopyridine-induced methemoglobinemia7
Optimizing quality of life: integrating palliative care for patients with hand-foot syndrome in oncology practice7
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care7
Important to distinguish between end-of-life values and preferences for improved advance care planning7
Bone-targeting agents in major solid tumour metastases: a multinational cohort study7
Assisted dying: participation barriers and facilitators – qualitative interview study of doctors’ perceptions7
Myofascial pain syndrome in patients with cancer: a narrative review7
The European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care in Lebanon: Adaptation and Pilot7
Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study7
Gynaecologic oncology referrals to specialist palliative care in a tertiary referral centre: population, characteristics and outcomes7
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 20177
Influence of individual, illness and environmental factors on place of death among people with neurodegenerative diseases: a retrospective, observational, comparative cohort study7
Rational use of human albumin: plan-do-check-act cycle in clinical practice7
Emergency department presentations in palliative care patients: a retrospective cohort study6
Auriculotherapy and pain intensity and functional disability in older adults with chronic low back pain: randomised single-blind clinical trial6
Naldemedine versus placebo in opioid-induced constipation: a meta-analysis6
The Value of Palliative Medicine—not another definition!6
Cannabidiol oil or placebo in advanced cancer–disease progression and survival: a secondary analysis6
Bereaved parents’ quality of life: resilience and professional support6
Malignancy-related ascites in palliative care units: prognostic factor analysis6
Opioid safety recommendations in adult palliative medicine: a North American Delphi expert consensus6
Time, distress and the social good of palliative medicine research participation6
Fibrotic interstitial lung disease - palliative care needs: a World-Café qualitative study6
Association between person-centred care quality and advance care planning participation in haemodialysis6
Voluntary-assisted dying, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: global perspectives—systematic review6
Palliative medicine outpatient clinic ‘no-shows’: retrospective review6
Healthcare media interviews6
Pathological emotionality in neurodegenerative conditions treated with dextromethorphan and quinidine: patients and carers impact6
Patients with cancer and hospital admissions: disease trajectory and strategic choices6
Depression prevalence in cardiovascular disease: global systematic review and meta-analysis6
COVID-19 communication resources in a major health system: development and dissemination6
Alfentanil in inpatient palliative medicine: practice survey6
Does voluntary assisted dying impact quality palliative care? A retrospective mixed-method study6
Caregiver burden in advanced cancer in tertiary care palliative medicine6
End-of-life interventions in patients with cancer6
Indwelling urinary catheters at the end of life are associated with less breakthrough medication use6
Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions for older medical inpatients: a cohort study6
Terminally Ill Adults Bill: an opportunity to improve continuing healthcare (CHC) in England6
Repeated radiological procedures in the last 6 months of life in old age: a retrospective study5
Comparison of official reporting on assisted suicide and euthanasia across jurisdictions5
Effects of early exposure to palliative care on end-of-life outcomes in patients with cancer in a community setting5
Prophylactic antibiotics and corticosteroid prescribing in palliative medicine: retrospective study5
Digital health for cancer symptom management in palliative medicine: systematic review5
Drug prescribing changes in the last year of life among homebound older adults: national retrospective cohort study5
Procalcitonin in advanced urological cancer—bacterial versus non-bacterial infections: prospective cohort study5
Well-being treatments in cancer care: patient benefits5
Cognitive complaints during breast cancer endocrine therapy: aromatase inhibitors versus tamoxifen5
Sympathetic blocks in cancer pain: coordinate based step-by-step fluoroscopic-guided transdiscal approach5
Early palliative/supportive care in acute myeloid leukaemia allows low aggression end-of-life interventions: observational outpatient study5
The Physician Surprise Question in the Emergency Department: prospective cohort study5
Enteral and parenteral nutrition in patients with cancer: complication rates compared—updated systematic review and meta-analysis5
Neutropenic event incidence in women with early-stage breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy: a retrospective study5
Palliative care integration into outpatient heart failure management: pilot study5
The carbon footprint of a hospice5
Malignant bowel obstruction symptoms: subcutaneous bolus esomeprazole-retrospective case series5
COVID-19 pandemic stress and cancer symptom burden5
Palliation of malignancies in HIV infection5
End of life in general practice: trends 2009–20195
Parental death: a systematic review of support experiences and needs of children and parent survivors5
Family carer needs in advanced disease: systematic review of reviews5
End of life in haematology: quality of life predictors – retrospective cohort study5
Acute palliative care units: characteristics, activities and outcomes – scoping review5
End-of-life and immediate postdeath acute hospital interventions: scoping review5
Venting percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy in malignant bowel obstruction: safety and effectiveness in a comprehensive cancer centre5
Physical exercise and fatigue in advanced gastrointestinal cancer during chemotherapy5
Delirium in patients with musculoskeletal tumours: incidence and risk factors – single-centre prospective study5
Video training of nursing home healthcare workers in palliative care4
Advanced breast, cervical and prostate cancer- Patient needs: systematic review4
Personal legacy and treatment choices for serious illness: a scoping review4
Reframing assisted dying through the civil law: possibilities and challenges for the UK4
Specialist palliative care out of hours telephone advice in Ireland: a national survey4
New UK palliative medicine consultants: clinical and non-clinical preparedness after higher specialty training4
Motor neuron disease specialist palliative care: impact of COVID-19 pandemic4
Last 24 hours: opioid use survey4
Rheumatology and palliative care: needs and opportunities4
Patient awareness of palliative care: systematic review4
Skeletal muscle mass recovery after oesophagectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal cancer: retrospective cohort study4
Ethics of sedation for existential suffering: palliative medicine physician perceptions - qualitative study4
Patient card games in palliative care: integrative review4
Immersive virtual reality and psychological well-being in adult chronic physical illness: systematic review4
Low serum thyroid-stimulating hormone levels may be an early predictor of sepsis4
Assisted dying and medical practice: questions and considerations for healthcare organisations4
Wish to die and hasten death in palliative care: a cross-sectional study factor analysis4
Valproic acid as an adjuvant analgesic: adult Fanconi syndrome4
Geriatric screening and comprehensive geriatric assessment during initial oncology appointments4
Desire for hastened death in advanced cancer: cross-sectional study in China4
Are the deprescribing guidelines for proton pump inhibitors in palliative care applicable? A monocentric observational study4
Drug dependence epidemiology in palliative care medicinal cannabis trials4
Palliative Care Curriculum and Training Plan for community health workers4
Symptom assessment in the dying: family members versus healthcare professionals4
Assisted suicide and euthanasia requests in early palliative care4
Parkinson’s disease: symptoms and medications at the end of life4
Mortality in hospitalised older patients: the WHALES short-term predictive score4
Non-specialist palliative care - question prompt list preparation: patient, family and clinician experiences4
Supportive care interventions in metastatic bone disease: scoping review4
Palliative home care: health-related quality of life4
Healthcare interpreters and difficult conversations: a survey4
Telemedicine for outpatient palliative care during COVID-19 pandemics: a longitudinal study4
Skeletal muscle mass during chemotherapy for haematological malignancies: a retrospective study4
Efficacy of models of palliative care delivered beyond the traditional physician-led, subspecialty consultation service model: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
Unmet care needs of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives: multicentre observational study4
Symptom evolution in the dying4
‘Blood transfusions in palliative medicine and symptom control in solid tumours’4
Deep continuous sedation at the patient’s request until death in a palliative care unit: retrospective study4
Malodour from oral malignant fungating wound: sprayed metronidazole – case report4
Paediatric advance care planning in life-limiting conditions: scoping review of parent experiences4
Home emergency response team for the seriously ill palliative care patient: feasibility and effectiveness3
Research participation in palliative medicine—benefits and barriers for patients and families: rapid review and thematic synthesis3
Bioethics and hospital palliative care: a systematic review3
Advance care and resuscitation plans in a tertiary hospital: a multimodal approach3
Severe hypoglycaemia in paediatric oncology: characterisation and risk factors3
20 years of palliative medicine practice in South Australia: from a burns unit to hospice3
Burn trauma management: palliative care integration3
Experiences of fathers of children with a life-limiting condition: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis3
Palliative care volunteer roles in Nordic countries: qualitative studies—systematic review and thematic synthesis3
Advanced prostate cancer experimental radioactive treatment—clinical trial decision making: patient experiences3
Dysphagia screening post-stroke: systematic review3
Palliative rehabilitation and quality of life: systematic review and meta-analysis3
Symptoms of advanced cancer in palliative medicine: a longitudinal study3
End-of-life preferences of people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease3
Hospital end-of-life care aggressiveness in adult solid tumour patients pre and post COVID-19: retrospective multicentre cohort study3
Advance and future care planning: strategic approaches in Wales3
Music therapy effectiveness by duration in patients with cancer: a meta-regression3
Cancer centre information and support services and patient needs: participatory action research study3
Cyclizine continuous subcutaneous infusion in palliative medicine: practice survey3
Consumer satisfaction, palliative care and artificial intelligence (AI)3
Burnout in Palliative Care - Difficult Cases: Qualitative Study3
Advance care planning evaluation: a scoping review of best research practice3
The Surprise Question3
Peer support-based online education, burden of care and quality of life among family caregivers of patients with leukaemia: non-randomised clinical trial3
Palliative care integration indicators: an European regional analysis3
Sleep quality and coping styles among nurses working in tertiary cancer institutions: a mixed-method study3
Osimertinib-induced radiation recall pneumonitis3
Oregon Death with Dignity Act access: 25 year analysis3
Supportive relationships between patients and family caregivers in specialist palliative care: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators3
Gender equality in palliative medicine editorial boards, authorships and national societies3
Haematology and specialist palliative medicine education and training3
Implementation of palliative care day hospital for outpatients with advanced cancer3
Recurrent syncope from parapharyngeal cancer3
Distress thermometer problem list and distress and depression in psycho-oncology3
Geographical distance and reduced access to palliative radiotherapy: systematic review and meta-analysis3
When the game is hard, more complex weapons are needed3
Parenteral nutrition in palliative care: single-centre observational study3
Tramadol for moderate cancer pain: a reappraisal3
Futile life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit – nurse and physician experiences: meta-synthesis3
Burden prediction in cancer caregivers: role of social support and connectedness3
Spiritual care in incurable cancer: physician views3
Handgrip strength assessment in geriatric populations: digital dynamometers comparative study3
Novel multidisciplinary ambulatory palliative care clinic: staff opinion and job satisfaction3
Breast cancer survivors–supportive care needs: systematic review3
Mobile technology and delegated work in specialist community services: the EnComPaSS Integration project3
Subcutaneous lacosamide for seizures3
Dermatology in palliative medicine3
The Surprise Question and clinician-predicted prognosis: systematic review and meta-analysis3
Peripheral nerve blocks in advanced cancer pain: retrospective case series3
Rethinking palliative care inside a cancer centre3
Acetazolamide versus placebo for cerebral oedema requiring dexamethasone in recurrent and/or progressive high-grade glioma: phase II randomised placebo-controlled double-blind study3
Palliative care integration in the intensive care unit: healthcare professionals’ perspectives – a qualitative study3
Randomised trial of a serious illness decision aid (Plan Well Guide) for patients and their substitute decision-makers to improve engagement in advance care planning3
Spiritual care in palliative medicine: interactive, virtual workshop for specialists3
Symptom burden among men treated for castration-resistant prostate cancer: a longitudinal study3
What do family caregivers of patients with life-threatening diseases need from healthcare professionals? A qualitative study3
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