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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from breast cancer: an ambiguous entity75
Anti-fibrinolytics for mucosal bleeding in adults with life-limiting illnesses: a systematic review43
Burnout and attachment in oncology and palliative care healthcare professionals41
Serial fascia iliaca blocks for pathological hip fracture pain40
Edmonton symptom assessment system global distress score and overall survival among patients with advanced cancer receiving early palliative care39
Informal caregiver burden and psychological distress among primary family caregivers of patients who had a stroke32
Palliative medicine specialist and general practitioner interactions: national survey29
Existential distress in family caregivers: scoping review of meaning-making interventions29
Duloxetine for prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): systematic review and meta-analysis22
Support programme for bereaved relatives: a retrospective observational study21
Omeprazole administration via short subcutaneous infusion21
Cancer pain management: long-term maintenance therapy21
Palliative treatment disparities in metastatic colon cancer: US retrospective cohort study with disaggregated ethnic groups21
Cardiac dysfunction in solid tumours: scoping review21
End stage kidney disease – palliative peritoneal dialysis programs: narrative review20
Artificial intelligence and large language models in palliative medicine clinical practice and education20
The clock is ticking: can palliative care survive the dual crises of time and workforce shortages?20
Clinical emergencies in inpatient hospice: simulation-based training to improve nursing confidence18
Video consultations in community palliative care – patient satisfaction: mixed methods study18
Palliative care utilisation globally by cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis17
Ambulatory palliative care and cancer symptom control: a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Complex pain management in osteonecrosis of the jaw16
Emergency department patient diagnostic communication: cohort study15
Proxy medical decision-making: national survey15
Morphine for chronic breathlessness in COPD: improvement predictors-cross-sectional study14
Challenges with cancer pain management: novel opioid shortages and cancer trials restrictions14
Preoperative radiotherapy for appendicular bone metastases: outcomes13
How to build a thriving integrative oncology programme13
Subcutaneous proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in palliative medicine13
Ethnicity and palliative care: we need better data – five key considerations13
Guidelines should be based on all of the evidence13
Palliative surgery in metastatic gastric cancer: analysis (2007–2021)13
End-of-life care for inpatients with schizophrenia: national claims database retrospective cohort study13
Care of the dying – medical student confidence and preparedness: mixed-methods simulation study13
Palliative physiotherapy in community settings for people with terminal illness12
End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death12
Communication skills: simulated patient goals of care workshop for acute care clinicians12
Ketamine for chronic limb-threatening ischaemia pain12
Inpatient deaths by medical service: characteristics in a comprehensive cancer centre12
Symptoms, performance status and phase of illness in advanced cancer: multicentre cross-sectional study of palliative care unit admissions11
Olanzapine cost-effectiveness in vomiting and nausea from highly emetogenic chemotherapy in children and adolescents11
Deodorant pad for ulcerated breast cancer: safety and efficacy11
How does palliative care fit into national health spending? Long-term healthcare expenditure trends in the UK—secondary analysis11
Cancer survivor inspiratory muscle training: systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis11
Wernicke’s encephalopathy in advanced cancer11
Home parenteral nutrition and survival in late-stage cancer: retrospective cohort study11
Beyond the physical realm: exploring the relationship between spiritual well-being and spiritual care competence11
That’s right: palliative care is not simple11
Polyanalgesic titration for severe refractory pain10
Palliative sedation and time to death in home palliative care: retrospective analysis10
Skin rash after immunomodulatory drugs for plasma cell neoplasms: effective practical corticosteroid desensitisation regimen10
Quality of death educational programme in a national reference palliative care unit10
Caring for a Patient with Inoperable Hip Fracture10
Music therapy interventions on symptom management in adults with advanced cancer - multisession longitudinal impact: systematic review10
The use and timing of rehabilitation and palliative care to cancer patients, and the influence of social vulnerability – a population-based study10
Medical cannabis use in young adults with cancer: a self-reported survey study10
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency9
Glucocorticoids for pain flare prophylaxis after palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials9
Pharmacogenomics and symptom management in palliative and supportive care: A scoping review9
Relationship between dyspnoea and related factors in patients with cancer: a cross-sectional study9
Living with breathlessness: quality improvement project to enhance staff confidence and patient self-management9
Nursing home resident deaths in a tertiary care hospital9
Swedish massage for shoulder function and postmastectomy pain syndrome: randomised controlled trial9
End-of-life experiences in advanced cancer: gender differences9
Palliative pacemaker deactivation for a pacing-dependent patient9
Assisted dying: is any healthcare option 100% perfect?9
Illness perception and symptom burden among cancer patients: cross-sectional study8
Medically assisted dying in Western Europe: legislation review – what has changed in 5 years?8
Stress and sleep quality in palliative care8
Young-onset colorectal cancer: treatment-related nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea8
Patient experiences in high-grade gliomas: from symptoms to radiotherapy8
Restless legs syndrome in oncology palliative medicine: prevalence and impact8
Symptom reduction in advanced cancer from multi-session mindful breathing: randomised controlled study8
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
Esomeprazole for subcutaneous infusion: compatibility with other alkaline medications8
Regional hospice and palliative care networks worldwide: scoping review7
Liver enzyme effects of medicinal cannabis in advanced cancer: a substudy of two randomised trials7
Prehabilitation during oesophageal cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy and postoperative functional exercise capacity7
Uncertainty and hope in relation to anxiety and depression in advanced lung cancer7
Exercise and mind–body therapies for fatigue in breast cancer: evidence mapping from systematic reviews7
Patient experiences of randomised placebo-controlled trial participation during end-of-life palliative cancer care7
Retraction: Insomnia in breast cancer: prevalence and associated factors7
Health-related quality of life and frailty in liver cirrhosis7
Updated systematic review on prognostic factors for 6-month mortality in older people with dementia7
Temporal muscle thickness is superior to inflammatory markers in predicting 3-month mortality in older non-cancer palliative care patients7
Invasive procedures for hiccups: a national single healthcare system study7
Subcutaneous antibiotics in palliative medicine: Retrospective chart review7
Advance care planning and caregiver outcomes: intervention efficacy – systematic review7
End of life care in paediatric settings: UK national survey7
Rumination, existential anxiety and professional quality of life among palliative care professionals in India7
Myofascial pain syndrome in patients with cancer: a narrative review6
Healthcare media interviews6
International curriculum and core components of kidney supportive care: a guide for clinicians in palliative care6
Gynaecologic oncology referrals to specialist palliative care in a tertiary referral centre: population, characteristics and outcomes6
Rational use of human albumin: plan-do-check-act cycle in clinical practice6
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 20176
Assisted dying: participation barriers and facilitators – qualitative interview study of doctors’ perceptions6
Naldemedine versus placebo in opioid-induced constipation: a meta-analysis6
Acceptance and commitment therapy in metastatic gastrointestinal cancer: patient and caregiver qualitative study6
Terminally Ill Adults Bill: an opportunity to improve continuing healthcare (CHC) in England6
The European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care in Lebanon: Adaptation and Pilot6
Physical activity, fatigue, kinesiophobia and quality of life in prostate cancer6
Patients with cancer and hospital admissions: disease trajectory and strategic choices6
Time, distress and the social good of palliative medicine research participation6
Extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) and palliative care disparities: a national cancer database study6
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care6
The Value of Palliative Medicine—not another definition!6
Indwelling urinary catheters at the end of life are associated with less breakthrough medication use6
Financial toxicity in the literature: a cross-sectional analysis6
Rare cause of dyspnoea: phenazopyridine-induced methemoglobinemia6
Depression prevalence in cardiovascular disease: global systematic review and meta-analysis6
Important to distinguish between end-of-life values and preferences for improved advance care planning6
Optimizing quality of life: integrating palliative care for patients with hand-foot syndrome in oncology practice6
Pathological emotionality in neurodegenerative conditions treated with dextromethorphan and quinidine: patients and carers impact6
Malignancy-related ascites in palliative care units: prognostic factor analysis6
Cannabidiol oil or placebo in advanced cancer–disease progression and survival: a secondary analysis6
Gold standards framework implementation in an acute hospital: end-of-life outcomes5
Prophylactic antibiotics and corticosteroid prescribing in palliative medicine: retrospective study5
Repeated radiological procedures in the last 6 months of life in old age: a retrospective study5
Drug prescribing changes in the last year of life among homebound older adults: national retrospective cohort study5
Parental death: a systematic review of support experiences and needs of children and parent survivors5
Enteral and parenteral nutrition in patients with cancer: complication rates compared—updated systematic review and meta-analysis5
Association between person-centred care quality and advance care planning participation in haemodialysis5
Terminal agitation: the Delphi method for a symptom severity measurement tool5
Does voluntary assisted dying impact quality palliative care? A retrospective mixed-method study5
Information provision in life-threatening illnesses: comprehensive framework5
Palliative care integration into outpatient heart failure management: pilot study5
Parkinson’s disease: symptoms and medications at the end of life5
Delirium in patients with musculoskeletal tumours: incidence and risk factors – single-centre prospective study5
Caregiver burden in advanced cancer in tertiary care palliative medicine5
Auriculotherapy and pain intensity and functional disability in older adults with chronic low back pain: randomised single-blind clinical trial5
COVID-19 communication resources in a major health system: development and dissemination5
The Physician Surprise Question in the Emergency Department: prospective cohort study5
Neutropenic event incidence in women with early-stage breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy: a retrospective study5
End of life in haematology: quality of life predictors – retrospective cohort study5
Venting percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy in malignant bowel obstruction: safety and effectiveness in a comprehensive cancer centre5
End-of-life and immediate postdeath acute hospital interventions: scoping review5
Sympathetic blocks in cancer pain: coordinate based step-by-step fluoroscopic-guided transdiscal approach5
End-of-life interventions in patients with cancer5
Voluntary-assisted dying, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: global perspectives—systematic review5
Access to palliative care services within patient-sharing networks for patients with breast, colorectal and non-small cell lung cancers5
Pain medications in older adults with activity-limiting pain: prevalence and correlates – Indian national survey5
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
Corneal reflex: novel strong prognostic marker for imminent death4
Identifying patients with palliative care needs: training healthcare professionals in South India4
Rheumatology and palliative care: needs and opportunities4
Symptom assessment in the dying: family members versus healthcare professionals4
Telemedicine for outpatient palliative care during COVID-19 pandemics: a longitudinal study4
Sodium oxybate versus midazolam for end-of-life continuous deep sedation: a randomised controlled trial4
Acute palliative care units: characteristics, activities and outcomes – scoping review4
Paediatric advance care planning in life-limiting conditions: scoping review of parent experiences4
Video training of nursing home healthcare workers in palliative care4
Advanced breast, cervical and prostate cancer- Patient needs: systematic review4
Drug dependence epidemiology in palliative care medicinal cannabis trials4
Moving beyond cancer survivorship: longevity medicine4
Severe hypoglycaemia in paediatric oncology: characterisation and risk factors4
Immersive virtual reality and psychological well-being in adult chronic physical illness: systematic review4
Spiritual care in incurable cancer: physician views4
Skeletal muscle mass recovery after oesophagectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal cancer: retrospective cohort study4
Low serum thyroid-stimulating hormone levels may be an early predictor of sepsis4
Bioethics and hospital palliative care: a systematic review4
Unmet care needs of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives: multicentre observational study4
Personal legacy and treatment choices for serious illness: a scoping review4
Postoperative pain following intraoperative acupuncture: a randomized‑controlled study4
Procalcitonin in advanced urological cancer—bacterial versus non-bacterial infections: prospective cohort study4
Cancer-related fatigue4
Supportive care interventions in metastatic bone disease: scoping review4
COVID-19 pandemic stress and cancer symptom burden4
Desire for hastened death in advanced cancer: cross-sectional study in China4
Specialist palliative care out of hours telephone advice in Ireland: a national survey4
Breathlessness Support Services in the UK and Republic of Ireland: a survey4
Novel multidisciplinary ambulatory palliative care clinic: staff opinion and job satisfaction4
End of life in general practice: trends 2009–20194
Palliative Care Curriculum and Training Plan for community health workers4
Physical exercise and fatigue in advanced gastrointestinal cancer during chemotherapy4
Symptom evolution in the dying4
Deep continuous sedation at the patient’s request until death in a palliative care unit: retrospective study4
Assisted suicide and euthanasia requests in early palliative care4
Blood transfusions in palliative medicine and symptom control in solid tumours4
Caregiving burden in palliative care: exploratory mixed-method study4
Digital health for cancer symptom management in palliative medicine: systematic review4
Early identification for palliative care integration and symptom burden within family medicine practice in South India4
Anaemia investigation and treatment in hospice inpatients: palliative medicine consultants attitudes and practices survey4
Valproic acid as an adjuvant analgesic: adult Fanconi syndrome4
Informal end-of-life care—hidden costs: multi-method analysis4
The carbon footprint of a hospice4
Burn trauma management: palliative care integration4
Rethinking palliative care inside a cancer centre3
20 years of palliative medicine practice in South Australia: from a burns unit to hospice3
Osimertinib-induced radiation recall pneumonitis3
Haematology and specialist palliative medicine education and training3
Oregon Death with Dignity Act access: 25 year analysis3
The Surprise Question and clinician-predicted prognosis: systematic review and meta-analysis3
Parenteral nutrition in palliative care: single-centre observational study3
Supportive relationships between patients and family caregivers in specialist palliative care: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators3
Describing and monitoring quality in value-based palliative and end-of-life care at a population level in Wales: achievements and future direction3
Burden prediction in cancer caregivers: role of social support and connectedness3
Quality of death in cancer: no treatment versus late chemotherapy in a nationwide mortality follow-back study3
Multidisciplinary and eHealth care approaches for cancer patients’ families: nationwide bereavement survey3
Are the deprescribing guidelines for proton pump inhibitors in palliative care applicable? A monocentric observational study3
Social work involvement in advance care planning post US 2016 Medicare policy change: a systematic review3
UK hospices: fairness, funding, fit3
Spirituality and cancer: quality of life, anxiety/depression and symptom severity3
Physicians’ opiophobia: a cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude and behaviour3
Palliative care integration in the intensive care unit: healthcare professionals’ perspectives – a qualitative study3
Subcutaneous lacosamide for seizures3
University hospital center for palliative and supportive care3
Acetazolamide versus placebo for cerebral oedema requiring dexamethasone in recurrent and/or progressive high-grade glioma: phase II randomised placebo-controlled double-blind study3
The Surprise Question3
Spiritual care in palliative medicine: interactive, virtual workshop for specialists3
Malodour from oral malignant fungating wound: sprayed metronidazole – case report3
Hospital end-of-life care aggressiveness in adult solid tumour patients pre and post COVID-19: retrospective multicentre cohort study3
Peer support-based online education, burden of care and quality of life among family caregivers of patients with leukaemia: non-randomised clinical trial3
What do family caregivers of patients with life-threatening diseases need from healthcare professionals? A qualitative study3
Nutritional status and paediatric anthracycline early cardiotoxicity3
Gender equality in palliative medicine editorial boards, authorships and national societies3
Impact of bedside ultrasound on care in specialist palliative care units: a qualitative study3
Shifting US location patterns in leukaemia mortality: retrospective analysis3
Geriatric screening and comprehensive geriatric assessment during initial oncology appointments3
Symptom burden among men treated for castration-resistant prostate cancer: a longitudinal study3
Skeletal muscle mass during chemotherapy for haematological malignancies: a retrospective study3
Effects of specialised nutritional interventions in patients with incurable cancer: a systematic review3
Futile life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit – nurse and physician experiences: meta-synthesis3
Transcranial magnetic stimulation and symptom management in palliative care3
Quality of life and symptoms in acute myeloid leukaemia with early palliative care: real-world observational study3
Implementation of palliative care day hospital for outpatients with advanced cancer3
Unmet needs: system-focused investigations3
Correction: ‘End-of-life interventions in patients with cancer’3
Trends in utilisation of palliative care services in COVID-19 patients and their impact on hospital resources in the USA: insights from the national inpatient sample3
Consumer satisfaction, palliative care and artificial intelligence (AI)3
Tramadol for moderate cancer pain: a reappraisal3
Advance care plans in parkinsonism: cross-sectional study within a randomised controlled trial3
Cyclizine continuous subcutaneous infusion in palliative medicine: practice survey3
Home emergency response team for the seriously ill palliative care patient: feasibility and effectiveness3
Handgrip strength assessment in geriatric populations: digital dynamometers comparative study3
New UK palliative medicine consultants: clinical and non-clinical preparedness after higher specialty training3
End-of-life care by specialist palliative care teams: 10-year retrospective satisfaction evaluation3
Quality-of-life outcomes in newly diagnosed advanced cancer: subgroup analysis – a case for individual differences3
Virtual reality interventions for mental health and well-being in palliative care: systematic review and narrative synthesis – outcomes, techniques, processes and mechanisms3
Cancer centre information and support services and patient needs: participatory action research study3
Opioid-induced neurotoxicity in palliative care: common, serious and treatable3
Sleep quality and coping styles among nurses working in tertiary cancer institutions: a mixed-method study3
Breast cancer survivors–supportive care needs: systematic review3
Advance care and resuscitation plans in a tertiary hospital: a multimodal approach3
Nursing care and nutritional status in head and neck cancer3
Reframing assisted dying through the civil law: possibilities and challenges for the UK3
Distress thermometer problem list and distress and depression in psycho-oncology3
End-of-life preferences of people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease3
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