Literature Search - Issue No. 12 (Mar 2024)

The primary focus of this literature search is selected articles, etc., on key issues in end-of-life care for which the full text is available online. Added, however, are a few noteworthy articles, etc., but for which access to the full text is available only with a subscription or for a one-time fee for the article in question.1 Also listed are a few postings of special interest on key websites that serve the hospice and palliative care communities-at-large, and selected news media reports. The next listing will be published in approximately four to six weeks.

Articles of particular interest.

Libraries in educational institutions and medical centres may have a subscription to the journal in question and hold a photocopying licence, which may facilitate cost-effective access.

Access to Care

  1. ‘Palliative care has a branding problem,’ MedPage Today. Posted online 22 February 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Timely integration of palliative care. Don’t dream it, make it happen!’ Research Square. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

  3. ‘Patients with both cancer and psychosis – to what extent do they receive specialized palliative care,’ Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Posted online 18 February 2024. Full text
  4. ‘Research report: Improving access to palliative care in Sub-Saharan Africa,’ Effective Altruism Forum. Posted online 13 February 2024. Full text

    Related: 

    News Media Reports of Interest: ‘In Africa, the question of end of life centered on the emergence of palliative care,’ The Teller Report, 2 March 2024; ‘Palliative Care and the importance thereof in low- and middle-countries especially,’ FutureMedia News (Namibia), 23 February 2024.

Policy & Practice

  1. ‘Existential suffering as an indication for palliative sedation: Identifying and addressing challenges,’ Palliative & Supportive Care. Posted online 29 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    1.2 ‘Revised European Association for Palliative Care recommended framework on palliative sedation: An international Delphi study,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 31 January 2024. Full text

  2. ‘Substance use disorders in hospice palliative care: A narrative review of challenges and a case for physician intervention,’ Palliative & Supportive Care. Posted online 29 February 2024. Full text
  3. ‘Global assessment of palliative care need: Serious health-related suffering measurement methodology,’ medRxiv. Posted online 26 February 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    N.B. This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review.

  4. ‘Organisation of hospice and palliative care in Poland according to data from the National Health Fund – cross-sectional study,’ Palliative Medicine in Practice (Polish Association of Palliative Care). Posted online 23 February 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)
  5. ‘Are we consulting, sharing care, or taking over? A conceptual framework,’ Palliative Medicine Reports. Posted online 23 February 2024. Full text
  6. ‘How palliative care professionals develop coping competence through their career: A grounded theory,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text
  7. ‘“So being here is ... I feel like I’m being a social worker again, at the hospice”: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore social workers’ experiences of hospice work,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text
  8. ‘Time-oriented decisions in palliative care team meetings,’ Discourse Studies. Posted online 16 February 2024. Full text
  9. ‘Scaling palliative care requires adherence to best practices,’ American Journal of Managed Care. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text
  10. ‘Improving shared decision-making about cancer treatment through design-based data-driven decision-support tools and redesigning care paths: An overview of the 4D PICTURE project,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 12 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. 4D PICTURE project website

  11. ‘The impact of early palliative care interventions on the utilization of medical care resources for end-of-life patients,’ Research Square. Posted online 12 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

  12. ‘Developing a best-practice agenda for music therapy research to support informal carers of terminally ill patients pre- and post-death bereavement: A world café approach,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 7 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. The World Café

Education & Training

Care Planning & Serious Illness Conversations

  1. ‘The Last Aid course as measure for public palliative care education: Lessons learned from the implementation process in four different countries,’ Palliative Care – Current Practice & Future Perspectives. Posted online 23 February 2024. Full text book chapter

    Related:

    1.2 ‘Right-sizing interprofessional team training for serious-illness communication: A strength-based approach,’ PEC Innovation. Posted online 16 February 2024. Full text

    1.3 ‘“We want to talk about death, dying and grief and to learn about end-of-life care”: Lessons learned from a multi-center mixed-methods study on Last Aid courses for kids and teens,’ Children. Posted online 9 February 2024. Full text

Pediatric Palliative Care

  1. ‘An online pediatric palliative care education and mentoring … in Nepal: A program implementation case study and assessment of changes in healthcare providers’ knowledge, confidence, and attitudes,’ Journal of Medical Education & Curricular Development. Posted online 22 February 2024. Full text

Physicians et al

  1. ‘Serious illness communication skills training for emergency physicians and advanced practice providers: A multi-method assessment of the reach and effectiveness of the intervention,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    3.2 ‘Knowledge and attitude of healthcare providers regarding palliative care and related factors: An online cross-sectional study,’ Cureus. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text

    3.3 ‘Teaching about palliative care for the development of emotional skills in medical students,’ Brazilian Journal of Implantology & Health Sciences, 2024;6(2):969-983. Full Portuguese text w. English language abstract (click on pdf icon)

Public Virtual Educational Platform

  1. ‘A content analysis of YouTube videos on palliative care: Understanding the quality and availability of online resources,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text

Paramedics

  1. ‘Comparison of palliative knowledge and self-efficacy expectation of German paramedics between a rural and an urban structured emergency medical service area,’ Journal of Palliative Care. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text

Nursing

  1. ‘Towards a set of competencies in palliative care nursing in Spain: What’s getting in the way of consensus? BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

Spirituality

  1. ‘Spiritual care through the lens of Portuguese palliative care professionals: A qualitative thematic analysis,’ Behavioural Sciences. Posted online 12 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    7.2 ‘Experiential training course on spirituality for multidisciplinary palliative care teams in a hospital setting: A feasibility study,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 10 February 2024. Full text

Essential Medicines

  1. ‘The opioid crisis and hospice care: Exploring key partner experiences,’ Research Brief (RTI Press). Posted online 2 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘Update on pain medicine shortages: February 2024,’ Palliative Care New South Wales (Australia), 22 February 2024.

Research (Issues)

  1. ‘Uncertainty in serious illness: A national interdisciplinary consensus exercise to identify clinical research priorities,’ Plos One. Posted online 29 February 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Palliative and end-of-life care research 2011-2018/19:  Marie Curie and National Institute for Health & Care Research portfolio snapshot,’ NIHR (U.K.). Posted online 28 February 2024. Download report
  3. ‘Lessons from a research partnership in southwest England to understand community palliative care needs in rural, coastal and low-income communities,’ Public Health Research. Posted online 28 February 2024. Full text (click on ‘Download publication documents’)
  4. ‘Qualified and motivated, but limited by specialty-specific barriers: A national survey of U.K. palliative medicine consultants research experience,’ BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘Why healthcare research is important,’ Hospice UK, 29 February 2024.

  5. ‘Is he suffering? Ethical issues surrounding the introduction of a comfort assessment monitor at the end of life,’ Éthique en Santé. Posted online 20 February 2024. French language abstract (w. English language abstract, intro., section snippets, references, etc.)
  6. ‘EOLinPLACE: An international research project to reform the way dying places are classified and understood,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 12 February 2024. Full text
  7. ‘How good are we at reporting the socioeconomic position, ethnicity, race, religion and main language of research participants? A review of the quality of reporting in palliative care intervention studies,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 8 February 2024. Full text
  8. ‘“Am I going to die?” Considering the preparation for research on an example of hospice patients,’ Qualitative Sociology Review, 2024;20(1):82-98. Journal contents page (scroll down to article, click on pdf icon to access full text)

Research (Protocols)

  1. ‘Palliative and end-of-life care practices for critically ill patients and their families in a peri-intensive care setting: A protocol for an umbrella review,’ Palliative & Supportive Care. Posted online 29 February 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Exploring the palliative care ecosystem in Thailand: A protocol for a scoping review and bibliometric analysis,’ BMJ Open Quality. Posted online 22 February 2024. Full text
  3. ‘Implementation of advance care planning in the routine care for acutely admitted patients in geriatric units: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial,’ BMC Health Services Research. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text
  4. ‘Integrated palliative care in oncology: A protocol for a realist synthesis,’ BMJ Open. Posted online 17 February 2024. Full text

Of Related Interest

Cultural & Linguistic Diversity

  1. ‘“Tie your camel first, then rely on God”: Reconceptualizing Javanese Islamic values to support palliative care at home,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 2 March 2024. Full text

    Related:

    1.2 ‘Disparities in end-of-life care for racial minorities: a narrative review,’ Annals of Palliative Medicine. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    1.3 ‘Cultural advocacy for indigenous individuals with serious illness,’ American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Posted online 2 February 2024. Full text

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘Providing culturally safe end of life care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people,’ Palliative Care Australia, 4 March 2024

Health Care for the Older Population

  1. ‘End-of-life expenditure on health care for the older population: A scoping review,’ Health Economics Review. Posted online 2 March 2024. Full text

Medical Assistance in Dying

  1. ‘Palliative care gets spotlight in assisted dying report,’ 1 Nursing Resume Example. Posted online 2 March 2024. Full text
    1. ‘Assisted Dying/ Assisted Suicide: Second Report of Session 2023–24,’ House of Commons Health & Social Care Committee (U.K.), 29 February 2024. Download report at;

    N.B. Section on palliative care begins on p.72.

    Related:

    3.2 ‘The evolving complexities of MAiD care in Canada from a nursing perspective,’ Global Qualitative Nursing Research. Posted online 29 February 2024. Full text

    3.3 ‘Perspectives of Canadian health leaders on the relationship between medical assistance in dying and palliative and end-of-life care services: A qualitative study,’ Canadian Medical Association Journal. Posted online 26 February 2024. Full text

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘Navigating the topic of voluntary assisted dying in advance care planning conversations,’ Australian Centre for Health Law Research – ‘Guiding Principles for Health Professionals,’20 February 2024.

Community & Home-Based Palliative Care

  1. ‘Empirically derived recommendations for the development and expansion of day hospices in Germany: Results of a Delphi expert panel,’ Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen. Posted online 2 March 2024. Full German language text (w. English language abstract)

    Related:

    4.2 ‘Patients’ and relatives’ preferences for outpatient and day care services within end-of-life care in Germany: A discrete choice experiment,’ Patience Preferences & Adherence. Posted online 29 February 2024. Full text

    4.3 ‘“Before I came to the hospice, I had nobody”: A qualitative exploration of what patients, family-caregivers, clinicians and volunteers valued most about home, day therapy or inpatient hospice services,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 28 February 2024. Full text

    4.4 ‘Estimated mortality risk and use of palliative care services among home care clients during the last 6 months of life: A retrospective cohort study,’ Canadian Medical Association Journal. Posted online 26 February 2024. Full text

    4.5 ‘Place of death for adults receiving specialist palliative care in their last 3 months of life: Factors associated with preferred place, actual place, and place of death congruence,’ Journal of Palliative Care. Posted online 25 February 2024. Full text

    4.6 ‘Understanding patient and family utilisation of community-based palliative care services out-of-hours: Additional analysis of systematic review evidence using narrative synthesis,’ Plos One. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text

    News Media Reports of Interest: ‘Only half of patients dying in community received palliative care, study says,’ 1 The Ottawa Citizen (Canada), 26 February 2024;‘Report warns patients receiving palliative care at home are suffering energy hardship,’ 2 Irish Examiner (Ireland), 21 February 2024; ‘Study: Home health care linked to increased hospice use at end-of-life,’ 3 Patch Media (U.S.), 21 February 2024.

    1. ‘Estimated mortality risk and use of palliative care services among home care clients during the last 6 months of life: A retrospective cohort study,’ Canadian Medical Association Journal. Posted online 26 February 2024. Full text
    2. ‘Irish Cancer Society recommendations for energy hardship and healthcare costs,’ Irish Cancer Society, February 2024.
    3. ‘Home health care and hospice use among Medicare beneficiaries with and without a diagnosis of dementia,’ Journal of Palliative Medicine. Posted online 15 February 2024. Full text

Oncology

  1. ‘Stability of end-of-life care wishes and gender-specific characteristics of outpatients with advanced cancer under palliative therapy: A prospective observational study,’ Oncology Research & Treatment. Posted online 1 March 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    Related:

    5.2 ‘A clinical view on the palliative care challenges for oncology patients,’ Research Square. Posted online 22 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

    5.3 ‘Embodied decisions unfolding over time: A meta-ethnography systematic review of people with cancer’s reasons for delaying or declining end-of-life care,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text

    5.4 ‘The effect of palliative care on quality of life outcome of patients with advanced cancer: A systematic review,’ Research Square. Posted online 6 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

    5.5 ‘Difficult situations and feelings in oncological palliative care,’ Cadernos de Saúde Pública (Public Health Notebooks), 2024;40(1). English language full text

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘Cancer patients may require enhanced palliative care,’ 1 Mirage (Australia), 19 February 2024.

    1. ‘Potentially burdensome care at the end-of-life for cancer decedents: A retrospective population-wide study,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 2 February 2024. Full text

Psychosocial & Spiritual Care

  1. ‘Exploring the readiness of hospice and oncology unit staff to offer spiritual support to patients: Preliminary findings,’ Palliative Medicine in Practice (Polish Association of Palliative Care). Posted online 1 March 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    Related:

    6.2 ‘Exploring spirituality, religion and life philosophy among parents of children receiving palliative care: A qualitative study,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 15 February 2024. Full text

    6.3 ‘Demystifying African American spirituality: Exploring the measurement of spirituality in the context of medical decision-making,’ Illness, Crisis & Loss. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

Care Planning & Serious Illness Conversations

  1. ‘Effects of prognostic communication strategies on prognostic perceptions, Treatment decisions and end-of-life anticipation in advanced cancer: An experimental study among analogue patient,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 28 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    7.2 ‘An integrative review of the state of POLST science: What do we know and where do we go?’ Journal of American Medical Directors Association. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. POLST = Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

    7.3 ‘What are the barriers and facilitators to advance care planning with older people in long-term care facilities? A qualitative study,’ Journal of Clinical Nursing. Posted online 20 February 2024. Full text

    7.4 ‘Are specialist-provided end-of-life scenarios key to initiation of advance care planning in primary care? A mixed-methods study,’ Palliative & Supportive Care. Posted online 16 February 2024. Full text

    7.5 ‘“Can a relative override a patient’s advance care directive?”: End-of-life legal worries of general practitioners and nurses working in aged care,’ Australian Journal of Primary Health. Posted online 15 February 2024. Full text

    7.6 ‘Understanding the discordance about prognosis between clinicians and terminally ill patients and their surrogates,’ The ASCO Post. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

    7.7 ‘Implementation of an advance care planning intervention in nursing homes: An international multiple case study,’ The Gerontologist. Posted online 13 February 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    7.8 ‘Measures of patient and surrogate preparedness for end-of-life decision-making,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 12 February 2024. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references, etc.)

    7.9 ‘Difficulties of cancer patients’ relatives in end-of-life discussions: Validation of a questionnaire,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 12 February 2024. Full text

    7.10 ‘A mixed methods analysis of standardized documentation of serious illness conversations within an electronic health record module during hospitalization,’ American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Posted online 9 February 2024. Full text

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘New tools to help health professionals with palliative care conversations,’ Palliative Care Australia, 21 February 2024.;

Critical Care Medicine

  1. ‘Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine and Indian Association Of Palliative Care expert consensus and position statements for end of life and palliative care in the ICU,’ Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine. Accessed online 27 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    8.2 ‘What are the triggers for palliative care referral in burn intensive care units? Results from a qualitative study based on healthcare professionals’ views, clinical experiences and practices,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 19 February 2024. Full text

COVID-19

  1. ‘Socioeconomic status, palliative care, and death at home among patients with cancer before and during COVID-19,’ JAMA Network Open. Posted online 27 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    9.2 ‘Impact of palliative care at end-of-life COVID-19 patients: A small-scale pioneering experience,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 10 February 2024. Full text

    Website Postings of Interest: ‘Time to Reflect,’ Irish Hospice Foundation, 27 February 2024; ‘A nation still in mourning: One in two bereaved adults still coming to terms with pandemic grief,’ eHospice, 20 February 2024.

Pediatric Palliative Care

  1. ‘It takes a village: Care coordination between pediatric palliative care and primary care,’ Advances in Family Practice Nursing. Posted online 24 February 2024. First page view (plus key points, clinical care points, references, etc.)

    Related:

    10.2 ‘How to move forward in shared decision-making in pediatric palliative care,’ Current Problems in Pediatric & Adolescent Health Care. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

    10.3 ‘Psychologists as pivotal members of the pediatric palliative care team,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 12 February 2024. Abstract (w. section snippets, references, etc.)

    Website Postings of Interest: ‘Uzbekistan’s first children’s hospice, 1 year on,’ World Health Organization, 15 February 2024; ‘First report on paediatric palliative care in Australia gives snapshot of impact and need,’ Palliative Care Australia, 14 February 2024; ‘The State of Pediatric Palliative Care in Canada,’ CADUS, 13 February 2024; ‘Launch of the Children’s Palliative Care Leadership Institute,’ International Children’s Palliative Care Network, 10 February 2024.

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘Child palliative care: A sad but avoidable plight,’ Otaihanga Second Opinion (New Zealand), 3 March 2024.

Technology

  1. ‘“Let`s put it this way: You can't really live without it” – Digital technologies in routine palliative care delivery: An explorative qualitative study with patients and their family caregivers in Germany,’ Research Square. Posted online 22 February 2024. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

    Related:

    11.2 ‘Virtual reality in specialist palliative care: A feasibility study to enable clinical practice adoption,’ BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Posted online 21 February 2024. Full text

    11.3 ‘How can technology be used to support communication in palliative care beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods national survey of palliative care healthcare professionals,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

    11.4 ‘The use of Artificial Intelligence-based technologies in palliative care: Advancing patient well-being at the end of life and enhancing the implementation of the Dying Patient Act,’ Israel Medical association Journal, 2024;28(2):126-129. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    11.5 ‘The use of Artificial Intelligence in writing scientific review articles,’ Current Osteoporosis Reports. Posted online 16 January 2024. Full text

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘We gave palliative care patients VR therapy. More than 50% said it helped reduce pain and depression symptoms,’ 1 The National Tribune (Australia), 22 February 2024; ‘End-of-life: The one decision AI cannot predict,’ Forbes (U.S.), 10 February 2024.

    1. ‘Personalised virtual reality in palliative care: clinically meaningful symptom improvement for some,’ British Medical Journal. Posted online 20 February 2024. Abstract

Neuropalliative Care

  1. ‘Facing dementia: Clarifying end-of-life choices, supporting better lives,’ The Hastings Center Report. Posted online 21 February 2024. About the special report

    N.B. Journal contents page

    Related:

    12.2 ‘Support needs of people with multiple system atrophy,’ Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. Accessed online 14 February 2024. Full text

    12.3 ‘Using the Carers’ Alert Thermometer tool to identify needs and support family caregivers of people with motor neurone disease: Moving beyond needs assessments,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 11 February 2024. Full text

    12.4 ‘Partly unequal receipt of healthcare in last month of life in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A retrospective cohort study of the Stockholm region,’ Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences (Upsala Medical Society). Posted online 8 February 2024. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    12.5 ‘Comparison of the quality of nurse-Led palliative care with standard medical care during six months in 405 patients with Parkinson’s disease and burdens of their caregivers: A retrospective study at a single center in China,’ Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2024;121(2):53-60. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references, etc.)

Grief & Bereavement

  1. ‘Bereavement counsellors’ experiences supporting the families of deceased children within a German bereavement network: A Qualitative Interview Study,’ Omega – Journal of Death & Dying. Posted online 15 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    13.2 ‘Death and grief in illustrated storybooks: An inventory of Swedish literature for young children,’ Death Studies. Posted online 13 February 2024. Full text

End-of-Life Care in Remote & Rural Areas

  1. ‘Palliative approach remains lacking in terminal hospital admissions for chronic disease across rural settings: Multisite retrospective medical record audit,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

Siblings’ Perspective

  1. ‘“People don’t realise how much their past experiences affect them in adulthood”: A qualitative study of adult siblings’ experiences of growing-up with a sister/brother with a childhood life-limiting condition and their perceived support needs,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 11 February 2024. Full text

Palliative Care Psychiatry

  1. ‘Palliative care psychiatry: Building synergy across the spectrum,’ Current Psychiatry Reports. Posted online 8 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘Palliative psychiatry offers a new path for some people with serious mental illness,’ Stat, 27 February 2024.

Website Postings of Interest

International

  1. ‘End-of-Life Care in the Prison Environment (Supplement #5),’ Palliative Care Network, January 2024.

Canada

  1. ‘Infographic: Explore the full spectrum of palliative care,’ Government of Canada, 8 February 2024.

U.K.

  1. ‘The postcode lottery of care must end: Our statement on today’s BBC News article,’ 1 Together for Short Lives, 14 February 2024.
  2. ‘Families of disabled people tell BBC of battle for NHS care support,’ BBC News. Posted online 14 February 2024. Full text

Selected News Media Reports

U.K.

  1. ‘National Health Service end-of-life “pathway” practises continue despite being banned,’ 1,2 Catholic Herald, 18 February 2024. Full text
    1. ‘More Care, Less Pathway: A Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway,’ July 2013.
    2. ‘When End-of-Life Care Goes Wrong,’ Voice for Justice U.K.,’ March 2023.

U.S.A.

  1. ‘Scientists reveal that nearly all older Americans follow one of nine trajectories in their last three years of life,’ 1 SciTechDaily, 2 March 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Place of care in the last three years of life for Medicare beneficiaries” BMC Geriatrics. Posted online 25 January 2024. Full text
  3. ‘Wisconsin Hospice & Palliative Care Association applauds State Assembly for approving bill establishing a state Palliative Care Council,’ WISPolitics, 22 February 2024. Full text
  4. ‘Jimmy Carter’s long goodbye,’ The New York Times, 17 February 2024. Full text

    Related:

    5.2 ‘A year after Jimmy Carter entered hospice care, advocates hope his endurance drives awareness,’ The Associated Press, 18 February 2024. Full text