| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Heterogeneity and changes in preferences for dying at home: a systematic review | BMC Palliative Care | 2013 | 710 |
| 2 | Unmet care needs of advanced cancer patients and their informal caregivers: a systematic review | BMC Palliative Care | 2018 | 374 |
| 3 | The Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice [ISRCTN81117481] | BMC Palliative Care | 2005 | 371 |
| 4 | Compassion: a scoping review of the healthcare literature | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 268 |
| 5 | A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for family carers of palliative care patients | BMC Palliative Care | 2010 | 147 |
| 6 | The effect on survival of continuing chemotherapy to near death | BMC Palliative Care | 2011 | 140 |
| 7 | A reliability and validity study of the Palliative Performance Scale | BMC Palliative Care | 2008 | 139 |
| 8 | How different is the care of terminal pancreatic cancer patients in inpatient palliative care units and acute hospital wards? A nationwide population-based study | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 135 |
| 9 | The determinants of home and nursing home death: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 129 |
| 10 | Advance care planning in dementia: recommendations for healthcare professionals | BMC Palliative Care | 2018 | 129 |
| 11 | Implementing advance care planning: a qualitative study of community nurses' views and experiences | BMC Palliative Care | 2010 | 124 |
| 12 | Sedation in palliative care – a critical analysis of 7 years experience | BMC Palliative Care | 2003 | 122 |
| 13 | Quality of life, psychological burden, needs, and satisfaction during specialized inpatient palliative care in family caregivers of advanced cancer patients | BMC Palliative Care | 2017 | 122 |
| 14 | Family meetings in palliative care: Multidisciplinary clinical practice guidelines | BMC Palliative Care | 2008 | 120 |
| 15 | Care of the human spirit and the role of dignity therapy: a systematic review of dignity therapy research | BMC Palliative Care | 2015 | 120 |
| 16 | An EAPC white paper on multi-disciplinary education for spiritual care in palliative care | BMC Palliative Care | 2020 | 118 |
| 17 | After you: conversations between patients and healthcare professionals in planning for end of life care | BMC Palliative Care | 2012 | 116 |
| 18 | Conceptual foundations of a palliative approach: a knowledge synthesis | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 112 |
| 19 | When a parent dies – a systematic review of the effects of support programs for parentally bereaved children and their caregivers | BMC Palliative Care | 2017 | 110 |
| 20 | The lived experience of breathlessness and its implications for care: a qualitative comparison in cancer, COPD, heart failure and MND | BMC Palliative Care | 2011 | 108 |
| 21 | Bereavement care interventions: a systematic review | BMC Palliative Care | 2004 | 107 |
| 22 | What do I do? Developing a taxonomy of chaplaincy activities and interventions for spiritual care in intensive care unit palliative care | BMC Palliative Care | 2015 | 99 |
| 23 | Health care use and costs at the end of life: a comparison of elderly Australian decedents with and without a cancer history | BMC Palliative Care | 2018 | 98 |
| 24 | Regoaling: a conceptual model of how parents of children with serious illness change medical care goals | BMC Palliative Care | 2014 | 96 |
| 25 | Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice and associated factors towards palliative care among nurses working in selected hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | BMC Palliative Care | 2014 | 94 |
| 26 | Telehealth in palliative care is being described but not evaluated: a systematic review | BMC Palliative Care | 2019 | 94 |
| 27 | Destined to die in hospital? Systematic review and meta-analysis of place of death in haematological malignancy | BMC Palliative Care | 2010 | 93 |
| 28 | Towards integration of palliative care in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review of European guidelines and pathways | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 93 |
| 29 | Mindfulness and compassion-oriented practices at work reduce distress and enhance self-care of palliative care teams: a mixed-method evaluation of an “on the job“ program | BMC Palliative Care | 2018 | 89 |
| 30 | A retrospective population based cohort study of access to specialist palliative care in the last year of life: who is still missing out a decade on? | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 88 |
| 31 | Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at the end of life – a ‘systematic search and review’ giving insight into an option of hastening death in capacitated adults at the end of life | BMC Palliative Care | 2014 | 86 |
| 32 | Integrated palliative care in Europe: a qualitative systematic literature review of empirically-tested models in cancer and chronic disease | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 84 |
| 33 | Quality end-of-life care: A global perspective | BMC Palliative Care | 2002 | 82 |
| 34 | End-of-life care of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 79 |
| 35 | Caregiving in ALS – a mixed methods approach to the study of Burden | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 79 |
| 36 | Correlation between patient quality of life in palliative care and burden of their family caregivers: a prospective observational cohort study | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 79 |
| 37 | Paediatric palliative care: development and pilot study of a ‘Directory’ of life-limiting conditions | BMC Palliative Care | 2013 | 78 |
| 38 | Factors associated with home death for individuals who receive home support services: a retrospective cohort study | BMC Palliative Care | 2002 | 76 |
| 39 | Communicating prognostic uncertainty in potential end-of-life contexts: experiences of family members | BMC Palliative Care | 2016 | 76 |
| 40 | End-of-life medical decisions in France: a death certificate follow-up survey 5 years after the 2005 act of parliament on patients’ rights and end of life | BMC Palliative Care | 2012 | 74 |
| 41 | Public awareness and attitudes toward palliative care in Northern Ireland | BMC Palliative Care | 2013 | 74 |
| 42 | What a wish to die can mean: reasons, meanings and functions of wishes to die, reported from 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care | BMC Palliative Care | 2014 | 74 |
| 43 | Challenges on the provision of palliative care for patients with cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of reviews | BMC Palliative Care | 2020 | 74 |
| 44 | Communication between family carers and health professionals about end-of-life care for older people in the acute hospital setting: a qualitative study | BMC Palliative Care | 2015 | 73 |
| 45 | Exploring the meaning and practice of self-care among palliative care nurses and doctors: a qualitative study | BMC Palliative Care | 2018 | 73 |
| 46 | End of life care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the qualitative literature | BMC Palliative Care | 2011 | 72 |
| 47 | Palliative care making a difference in rural Uganda, Kenya and Malawi: three rapid evaluation field studies | BMC Palliative Care | 2011 | 72 |
| 48 | A rapid positive influence of S-ketamine on the anxiety of patients in palliative care: a retrospective pilot study | BMC Palliative Care | 2020 | 72 |
| 49 | Balloon kyphoplasty in malignant spinal fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Palliative Care | 2009 | 71 |
| 50 | Effectiveness of a hand-held fan for breathlessness: a randomised phase II trial | BMC Palliative Care | 2010 | 71 |
