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

Palliative or Hospice Care? Understanding the Similarities and Differences

(2012) Nancy Henne Batchelor   Rehabilitation Nursing

The Lack of Standard Definitions in the Supportive and Palliative Oncology Literature

(2011) David Hui et al.   JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT

Association Between a Name Change from Palliative to Supportive Care and the Timing of Patient Referrals at a Comprehensive Cancer Center

(2011) S. Dalal et al.   ONCOLOGIST

Best Supportive Care: A Euphemism for No Care or a Standard of Good Care?

(2011) Nathan Cherny   SEMINARS IN ONCOLOGY

A Common Definition of Geriatric Palliative Medicine

(2010) Sophie Pautex et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Levels of Care: Defining Best Supportive Care in Elderly Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

(2010) Ellen K. Ritchie et al.   Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Stigma associated with “palliative care”

(2009) Nathan I. Cherny   CANCER

Supportive versus palliative care: What's in a name?

(2009) Nada Fadul et al.   CANCER

Improving the Methodologic and Ethical Validity of Best Supportive Care Studies in Oncology: Lessons From a Systematic Review

(2009) Nathan I. Cherny et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Palliative Cancer Care a Decade Later: Accomplishments, the Need, Next Steps—From the American Society of Clinical Oncology

(2009) Frank D. Ferris et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Review: Cultural conceptualizations of hospice palliative care: more similarities than differences

(2009) Harvey Bosma et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Terminology: the historical perspective, evolution and current usage – room for confusion?

(2008) M. Fallon et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER

Defining Best Supportive Care

(2008) S. Yousuf Zafar et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Palliative care: careless use of language undermines our identity

(2008) Geoffrey Hanks   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

A matter of definition – key elements identified in a discourse analysis of definitions of palliative care

(2008) T Pastrana et al.   PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Defining the role of palliative care in older adults with heart failure

(2007) David B. Bekelman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY