Family involvement in advance care planning for people living with advanced cancer: A systematic mixed-methods review

M Kishino, C Ellis-Smith, O Afolabi… - Palliative …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Advance care planning is important for people with advanced cancer. Family
involvement in advance care planning may be instrumental to achieving goal-concordant …

Effective communication in palliative care from the perspectives of patients and relatives: a systematic review

M Engel, MC Kars, SCCM Teunissen… - Palliative & Supportive …, 2023 - cambridge.org
ObjectivesIn palliative care, effective communication is essential to adequately meet the
needs and preferences of patients and their relatives. Effective communication includes …

Engaging social justice methods to create palliative care programs that reflect the cultural values of African American patients with serious illness and their families: a …

R Elk, S Gazaway - Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Cultural values influence how people understand illness and dying, and impact their
responses to diagnosis and treatment, yet end-of-life care is rooted in white, middle class …

Complexity and function of family involvement in advance care planning: A qualitative study of perspectives from people living with advanced cancer, family members …

M Kishino, J Koffman, H Nagatomi… - Palliative …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Family members can support advance care planning conversations. However,
how family involvement in advance care planning operates to achieve goal-concordant care …

Communication in oncology between healthcare providers, patients, the scientific community, and the media: recommendations from the Italian Association of Medical …

R Berardi, A Parisi, M Maruzzo, M Bellani… - Supportive Care in …, 2024 - Springer
Aim To identify barriers between health and communication in oncology in order to promote
the best possible practice. The areas of communication to be focused on are communication …

Respecting faith, hope, and miracles in African American Christian patients at end-of-life: Moving from labeling goals of care as “aggressive” to providing equitable …

S Gazaway, E Chuang, M Thompson… - Journal of Racial and …, 2023 - Springer
In this article, we demonstrate first how the term “aggressive care,” used loosely by clinicians
to denote care that can negatively impact quality of life in serious illness, is often used to …

Facilitators and barriers to oncologists' conduct of goals of care conversations

D Schulman-Green, JJ Lin, CB Smith… - … of palliative care, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: Goals of care (GoC) conversations optimally begin early in the course of cancer
care, yet most happen near the end of life. We sought to describe oncologist-reported …

Dealing with family conflicts in decision-making in end-of-life care of advanced cancer patients

K Laryionava, EC Winkler - Current Oncology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The family plays a significant role in end-of-life care and
decision-making with advanced cancer patients. This non-systematic review aims to …

Goals of care communication and higher-value care for patients with advanced-stage cancer: A systematic review of the evidence

LD Cripe, LB Vater, JA Lilly, A Larimer… - Patient Education and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Context Goals-of-care communication (GOCC) is recommended to increase the value of
cancer care near the end of life (EOL). Objectives Conduct a systematic review of the …

Patients' preferences in Non-Curable cancer disease

K Laryionava, EC Winkler - Oncology research and treatment, 2019 - karger.com
Eliciting and integrating patients' preferences in decision-making in palliative oncology is an
important criterion for the quality of end-of-life care. It is an essential prerequisite in …