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Evolution of requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide according to healthcare professionals
H.Trimaille et al, Médecine Palliative (09/2022)

Inclusion of essential components of the World Health Organization palliative care development model in national palliative care plans: A documentary analysis in 31 countries
M.A. Sanchez-Carnenas et al. Health policy (06/2022)

Using Family Narrative Reports to Identify Practices for Improving End-of-Life Care Quality
K.F. Giannitrapani et al. Journal of Pain and Symptome Management (10/2022)

Last year of life of adults with congenital heart diseases: causes of death and patterns of care
L. Van Bulck et al. European Heart Journal (08/2022)

Organ donation by Maastricht-III pediatric patients: Recommendations of the Groupe Francophone de Réanimation et Urgences Pédiatriques (GFRUP) and Association des Anesthésistes Réanimateurs Pédiatriques d'Expression Française (ADARPEF) Part I: Ethical considerations and family care
B. Gaillard-Le Roux et al. Archives de pédiatrie (08/2022)

Stopping artificial hydration in patients at the end of life: a systematic review of the literature
E. Donati et al. Cancer Bulletin (08/2022)

What support for requests to return to the country of origin by migrant patients in palliative care?
A. Schohn and C. Lamouille-Chevalier. Cancer Bulletin (06/2022)

Reimagining Perinatal Palliative Care: A Broader Role for Support in the Face of Uncertainty
S. Lord et al. Journal of Palliative Care (06/2022)

Intensive end-of-life care in acute leukemia from a French national hospital database study (2017-2018)
S. Salas et al. BMC Palliative Care (2022)

Global comparison of communication of end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit.
C. Feldman et al.Chest (05/2022)

Missing data in palliative care research: estimands and estimators
J. Roydbouse et al. BMJ Supportive & Palliative care (04/2022)

Death drive and desubjectification at the end of life
Jérôme Alric Death drive in care (2022)

Quality of end-of-life in cancer patients with dementia: using a nationwide inpatient database
K. Hirooka et al.Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (03/2022)

Use, usability, and impact of a card-based conversation tool to support communication about end-of-life preferences in residential elder care - a qualitative study of staff experiences
T. Johansson et al. BMC Geriatrics (04/2022)

Palliative Care Needs Assessment in the Population Living in Mayotte: SPMAYOTTE, a Qualitative Study Conducted with 62 Patients, Caregivers and Healthcare Professionals
R. Benoist et al.Environmental Research and Public Health (02/2022)

Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life - The Lancet
L. Sallnow et al. The Lancet (01/2022)

A three-step support strategy for relatives of patients dying in the intensive care unit: a cluster randomised trial
N. Kentish-Barnes et al.The Lancet (02/2022)

Nurse-Led Telephonic Palliative Care: A Case-Based Series of a Novel Model of Palliative Care Delivery
R. Yamarik et al. Journal of hospice & palliative nursing (02/2022)

Caring for depression in the dying is complex and challenging - survey of palliative physicians
W. Lee et al. BMC Palliative care (01/2022)

Intentionally ending one's own life in the presence or absence of a medical condition: A nationwide mortality follow-back study
M. Hagens et al. SSM - Population Health (09/2021)

Reflections on including patients in a randomized placebo-controlled multicentre trial in the dying phase - the SILENCE study
H.J. Van Esch et al. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (12/2021)

Understanding why patients request euthanasia when it is illegal: a qualitative study in palliative care units on the personal and practical impact of euthanasia requests
D. Leboul et al. Palliative Care and Social practice (01/2022)

The role of perinatal palliative care following prenatal diagnosis of major, incurable fetal anomalies: a multicentre prospective cohort study
C. de Berbeyrac et al. Obstetrics & Gynaecology (10/2021)

LSD and palliative care in the 1960s, a missed appointment?
Z. Dubus. Médecine Palliative (11/2021)

Contemporary end-of-life and dying
Edited by S. Fortin and J. Le Gall. Anthropologie et Sociétés (11/2021)

Palliative care integration indicators: an European regional analysis
M.A. Sanchez-Carnenas et al. BMJ Supportive and Palliative care (07/2021)

The promise of big data for palliative and end-of-life care research
L. Morin, B.D Onwuteaka-Philipsen Palliative Medicine (10/2021)

The cumbersome dead. On the political government of corpses
M. Jaksic and N. Fisher. Cultures & conflicts (Spring 2021)

Still ready to give up on life? A longitudinal phenomenological study into wishes to die among older adults
E. van Vijngaarden et al. Social science & Medicine (09/2021)

Psychic representation to the test of lethal illness. A clinical approach in palliative care
Loucard Chardon C. Cliniques méditerranéennes (01/2021)

Hearing the voices of children diagnosed with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness and their parents' accounts in a palliative care setting: A qualitative study
Ciobanu E. & Preston N. Palliative Medicine (03/2021)

The issue of death in prison
Monami R. The Journal of Psychologists (03/2021)

"Sedation" or "palliative sedative practices at the end of life"? A linguistic study of francophone recommendations for sedation in adult palliative care
Tomczyk M., Viallard M.L & Beloucif S. Recherche en soins infirmiers (03/2021)

Mapping an Agenda for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Research in Patients with Serious Illness
Beaussant Y. et al. Journal of Palliative Medicine (04/2021)

Physicians' predictions of long-term survival and functional outcomes do not influence the decision to admit patients with advanced disease to intensive care: A prospective study
Escher M. et al. Palliative Medicine (01/2021)

Continuous deep sedation until death: first national survey in France after the 2016 law promulgating it
Bretonniere S., Fournier, V. Journal of pain and symptom management (04/2021)

Informal Caregiving for People With Life-Limiting Illness: Exploring the Knowledge Gaps
Lung E.Y.L et al. Journal of Palliative Care (01/2021)

Opportunities for public involvement in big data research in palliative and end-of-life care
Johnson H. et al. Palliative Medicine (03/2021)

Characteristics and mortality rates among patients requiring intermediate care: a national cohort study using linked databases
Evans C.J et al. BMC Medicine (02/2021)

Determinants of doctors' antibiotic prescriptions for patients over 75 years old in the terminal stage of palliative care
Durand M. et al. Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses (10/2020)

Palliative care delivery according to age in 12,000 women with metastatic breast cancer: Analysis in the multicentre ESME-MBC cohort 2008-2016
Frasca M. et al. European Journal of Cancer (09/2020)

Impact of the Lisp device on the deployment of palliative culture and approach
Bondier M. et al. Santé publique (08/2020)

Palliative care from the perspective of cancer physicians: a qualitative semistructured interviews study
Economos G. et al. BMJ Support Palliat. Care (09/2020)

Ethical Challenges in Multi-Cultural Patient Care
Russel Searight H. Springer support Palliat. Care (2020)

Information pamphlet given to relatives during the end-of-life decision in the ICU: An assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial
Robin S. et al. Chest (01/2020)

Identification of factors associated with aggressive end-of-life antitumour treatment: retrospective study of 1282 patients with cancer
Debourdeau P. et al. BMJ Support Palliat. Care (11/2020)

Bereavement care interventions for children under the age of 18 following the death of a Sibling: a systematic review
Ridley A. & Frache S. Palliative Medicine (08/2020)

Finishing life, hastening death in old age
Gerontology and Society n°163 (01/2021)

Impact of advance directives on the variability between intensivists in the decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment
Smirdec M. et al. Critical Care (10/2020)

Trajectories of dying and bereavement
edited by Laflamme D. Frontières (10/2020)

COVID, death in FaceTime
Tessier L. L'homme (2020)

Medical humanities: engaging the humanities and social sciences in medicine
Lefève C., Thoreau F. and Zimmer A. Éditions Doin (2020)

Atlas of palliative and end-of-life care in France - 2nd Edition
CNSPFV (10/2020)

Global Atlas of Palliative Care - 2nd Edition
WHPCA (10/2020)

Personality traits and fears of death and dying predict ageism
Galton N. et al. Death Studies (10/2020)

Methodological reflections on the recruitment of adult child-parent dyads for end-of-life research in Germany: Experiences from the Dy@EoL study
Gawindki L. et al. Journal of pain and symptom management (10/2020)

Palliative care handbook
Center for Medical Ethics. Guides Santé Social. Dunod (09/2020)

Creating a Resilient Research Program-Lessons Learned From a Palliative Care Research Laboratory
Rosenberg A.R. et al. Journal of pain and symptom management (10/2020)

End-of-life care for homeless people in shelter-based nursing care settings: A retrospective record study
Van Dongen S.I. Palliative Medicine (07/2020)

COVID-19, palliative care and public health
Rodin G. et al. European Journal of Cancer (09/2020)

Patients' views, consulting general practitioners, on palliative medicine
H. Thelu. Palliative medicine (02/2020)

End-of-life care among patients with schizophrenia and cancer: a population-based cohort study from the French national hospital database
Fond G. et al. Lancet Public Health (11/2019)

Life's hard and then you die: the end-of-life priorities of people experiencing homelessness in the UK
W.A. Wenn et al. International journal of palliative nursing (03/2020)

Use of oral cannabis extracts in the pediatric palliative care setting: A retrospective chart review
M. Doherty et al. Palliative Medicine (02/2020)

The palliative care needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and their access to palliative care services: A systematic review.
E. Adam et al. Palliative medicine (06/2020)

Palliative care utilization among patients with Covid-19 in an underserved population: a single-center retrospective study.
A. Haydar et al. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (2020)

A phenomenological study of nurses experience about their palliative approach and their use of mobile palliative care teams in medical and surgical care units in France.
A. Oude Engberink et al. BMC Palliative Care (2020)

Quality of palliative care in identified palliative care beds
E. Viel et al. International journal of palliative nursing (2020).

A mixed methods approach of end-of-life care, social rites, and bereavement outcomes: a transnational perspective.
C. Kossigan Kokou-Kpolou et al. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2020)

"You helped me keep my head above water"-experience of bereavement research after loss of a loved one in the ICU: insights from the ARREVE study.
A. Laurent et al. Intensive Care Medicine (2019)

International palliative care research priorities : A systematic review
Felicity Hasson et al. BMC Palliative Care (2020)

Social care and death
edited by A. Magalhaes de Almeida and M.-A. Berthod Éditions HETLS (2020)

The qualitative researcher: the flip side of the resarch encounter with vulnerable people.
Nadia Bashir. Qualitative Research (12/2019)

End-of-life care and place of death in adults with serius mental illness: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.
Rebecca Wilson, Nilay Hepgul, Irene J Higgison and Wi Gao. Palliative Medicine 1-20 (2019)

Immaterialities of death
Edited by Valérie Robin Azevedo. CNRS éditions

A systematic review of older adults' request for or attitude toward euthanasia or assisted-suicide.
Castelli Dransart DA et al. Aging Ment Health. 10:1-11 (12/2019)