Effectiveness of palliative care interventions offering social support to people with life-limiting illness-A systematic review

Patient reported outcome measures of quality of end-of-life care: A systematic review

(2017) Tara Kearns et al.   MATURITAS

What do we know about different models of providing palliative care? Findings from a systematic review of reviews

(2017) Louise Brereton et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

The relationship between coping strategies, quality of life, and mood in patients with incurable cancer

(2016) Ryan D. Nipp et al.   CANCER

The experience of living with advanced-stage cancer: a thematic synthesis of the literature

(2016) N. García-Rueda et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER CARE

Populations and Interventions for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review

(2016) Adam E. Singer et al.   JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

What cost components are relevant for economic evaluations of palliative care, and what approaches are used to measure these costs? A systematic review

(2016) Clare Gardiner et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Physical, social, psychological and existential trajectories of loss and adaptation towards the end of life for older people living with frailty: a serial interview study

(2016) Anna Lloyd et al.   BMC Geriatrics

Of apples and oranges: Lessons learned from the preparation of research protocols for systematic reviews exploring the effectiveness of Specialist Palliative Care

(2016) Jan Gaertner et al.   BMC Palliative Care

Implementing Outcome Measures Within an Enhanced Palliative Care Day Care Model

(2015) Isae Kilonzo et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT

INSPIRE (INvestigating Social and PractIcal suppoRts at the End of life): Pilot randomised trial of a community social and practical support intervention for adults with life-limiting illness

(2015) Kathleen McLoughlin et al.   BMC Palliative Care

Psychosocial and Behavioral Interventions and Cancer Patient Survival Again

(2014) Yi Xia et al.   INTEGRATIVE CANCER THERAPIES

Improving the Evidence Base in Palliative Care to Inform Practice and Policy: Thinking Outside the Box

(2014) Samar M. Aoun et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT

Effectiveness of complex interventions focused on quality-of-life assessment to improve palliative care patients’ outcomes: A systematic review

(2014) Gianluca Catania et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Do age and quality of life of patients with cancer influence quality of life of the caregiver?

(2014) Varun Shahi et al.   Journal of Geriatric Oncology

Quality of life assessment in advanced cancer patients treated at home, an inpatient unit, and a day care center

(2014) Wojciech Leppert et al.   OncoTargets and Therapy

Evaluating complex interventions in End of Life Care: the MORECare Statement on good practice generated by a synthesis of transparent expert consultations and systematic reviews

(2013) Irene J Higginson et al.   BMC Medicine

Impact of a structured multidisciplinary intervention on quality of life of older adults with advanced cancer

(2013) Megan M. Chock et al.   INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS

Optimism, social support, and mental health outcomes in patients with advanced cancer

(2013) Allison J. Applebaum et al.   PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY

Does gender influence outcomes from a multidisciplinary intervention for quality of life designed for patients with advanced cancer?

(2013) Maria I. Lapid et al.   SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER

Randomized controlled trial of maintaining quality of life during radiotherapy for advanced cancer

(2012) Matthew M. Clark et al.   CANCER

Concepts and definitions for “supportive care,” “best supportive care,” “palliative care,” and “hospice care” in the published literature, dictionaries, and textbooks

(2012) David Hui et al.   SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER

Why Do Health Professionals Refer Individual Patients to Specialist Day Hospice Care?

(2011) Sarah Elizabeth Bradley et al.   JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Patients’ psychosocial experiences of attending Specialist Palliative Day Care: A systematic review

(2011) Sarah E Bradley et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Therapeutic Exercise during Outpatient Radiation Therapy for Advanced Cancer

(2010) Andrea L. Cheville et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Decrease in Depression Symptoms Is Associated With Longer Survival in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Secondary Analysis

(2010) Janine Giese-Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

The outcomes of palliative care day services: A systematic review

(2010) Elaine Stevens et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

(2010) Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Effects of supportive-expressive group therapy on pain in women with metastatic breast cancer.

(2009) Lisa D. Butler et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Loneliness, social support networks, mood and wellbeing in community-dwelling elderly

(2009) Jeannette Golden et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

Palliative day care – a study of well-being and health-related quality of life

(2009) G Andersson Svidén et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Does a social model of hospice day care affect advanced cancer patients’ use of other health and social services? A prospective quasi-experimental trial

(2009) Irene J. Higginson et al.   SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

(2009) David Moher et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Perceived Social Support and Coping Responses Are Independent Variables Explaining Pain Adjustment Among Chronic Pain Patients

(2008) Alicia E. López-Martínez et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN