| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | A Randomized Trial of a Family-Support Intervention in Intensive Care Units | New England Journal of Medicine | 2018 | 337 |
| 2 | Palliative Care in Heart Failure | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2017 | 204 |
| 3 | I Don’t Want to Be the One Saying ‘We Should Just Let Him Die’: Intrapersonal Tensions Experienced by Surrogate Decision Makers in the ICU | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2012 | 166 |
| 4 | Patient knowledge and physician predictions of treatment preferences after discussion of advance directives | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 1998 | 165 |
| 5 | Preparing Caregivers for the Death of a Loved One: A Theoretical Framework and Suggestions for Future Research | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2006 | 161 |
| 6 | A Qualitative Study of Oncologists' Approaches to End-of-Life Care | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2008 | 126 |
| 7 | Can Metaphors and Analogies Improve Communication with Seriously Ill Patients? | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2010 | 125 |
| 8 | Interventions to Improve Patient Comprehension in Informed Consent for Medical and Surgical Procedures: An Updated Systematic Review | Medical Decision Making | 2020 | 113 |
| 9 | Does it matter what you call it? A randomized trial of language used to describe palliative care services | Supportive Care in Cancer | 2013 | 109 |
| 10 | Religious Beliefs and Practices Are Associated With Better Mental Health in Family Caregivers of Patients With Dementia: Findings From the REACH Study | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 2007 | 108 |
| 11 | Clinician-Family Communication About Patients’ Values and Preferences in Intensive Care Units | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2019 | 108 |
| 12 | The process of organ donation and its effect on consent | Clinical Transplantation | 2001 | 107 |
| 13 | How Clinicians Discuss Critically Ill Patients’ Preferences and Values With Surrogates | Critical Care Medicine | 2015 | 91 |
| 14 | Caregiving at the End of Life | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2006 | 83 |
| 15 | Informed Consent in Clinical Care | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2011 | 83 |
| 16 | “It Hurts To Know…And It Helps”: Exploring How Surrogates in the ICU Cope with Prognostic Information | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2013 | 77 |
| 17 | Chronic Pain and Risk Factors for Opioid Misuse in a Palliative Care Clinic | American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine | 2015 | 71 |
| 18 | Geritalk: Communication Skills Training for Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Fellows | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2012 | 70 |
| 19 | Associations Between Polypharmacy, Symptom Burden, and Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced, Life-Limiting Illness | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2019 | 69 |
| 20 | Association between physicians’ beliefs and the option of comfort care for critically ill patients | Intensive Care Medicine | 2012 | 64 |
| 21 | Supportive Care: Communication Strategies to Improve Cultural Competence in Shared Decision Making | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2016 | 64 |
| 22 | The Next Era of Palliative Care | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2015 | 62 |
| 23 | Religion, spirituality and the well-being of informal caregivers: A review, critique, and research prospectus | Aging and Mental Health | 2006 | 61 |
| 24 | What Questions do Family Caregivers want to Discuss with Health Care Providers in Order to Prepare for the Death of a Loved One? An Ethnographic Study of Caregivers of Patients at End of Life | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2008 | 56 |
| 25 | End-of-Life Content in Treatment Guidelines for Life-Limiting Diseases | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2004 | 55 |
| 26 | A Conceptual Framework of Palliative Care across the Continuum of Advanced Kidney Disease | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2019 | 53 |
| 27 | A Communication Framework for Dialysis Decision-Making for Frail Elderly Patients | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2014 | 52 |
| 28 | Role of the Ethics Committee | Chest | 2008 | 49 |
| 29 | Comparing Specialty and Primary Palliative Care Interventions: Analysis of a Systematic Review | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2020 | 49 |
| 30 | How oncologists and their patients with advanced cancer communicate about health‐related quality of life | Psycho-Oncology | 2010 | 48 |
| 31 | An Integrated Framework for Effective and Efficient Communication with Families in the Adult Intensive Care Unit | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | 2017 | 48 |
| 32 | NephroTalk: Evaluation of a Palliative Care Communication Curriculum for Nephrology Fellows | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2018 | 48 |
| 33 | Perspectives of Older Kidney Transplant Recipients on Kidney Transplantation | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2017 | 47 |
| 34 | Hospital staff attributions of the causes of physician variation in end-of-life treatment intensity | Palliative Medicine | 2009 | 44 |
| 35 | Clarifying Values: An Updated and Expanded Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Medical Decision Making | 2021 | 43 |
| 36 | Quality of life and dialysis decisions in critically ill patients with acute renal failure | Intensive Care Medicine | 2003 | 42 |
| 37 | Toward Palliative Care for All Patients With Advanced Cancer | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 40 |
| 38 | How do clinicians prepare family members for the role of surrogate decision-maker? | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2018 | 38 |
| 39 | Prognostication after cardiac arrest: Results of an international, multi-professional survey | Resuscitation | 2019 | 38 |
| 40 | Discussion of treatment trials in intensive care | Journal of Critical Care | 2013 | 37 |
| 41 | Homebound Patient and Caregiver Perceptions of Quality of Care in Home‐Based Primary Care: A Qualitative Study | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2016 | 37 |
| 42 | Opioid Dose Titration for Severe Cancer Pain: A Systematic Evidence-Based Review | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2004 | 34 |
| 43 | Knowledge, attitudes, and preferences of healthy young adults regarding advance care planning: a focus group study of university students in Pittsburgh, USA | BMC Public Health | 2015 | 32 |
| 44 | You Can’t Get What You Want: Innovation for End-of-Life Communication in the Intensive Care Unit | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2016 | 32 |
| 45 | The Impact of Communication Skills Training on Cardiology Fellows' and Attending Physicians' Perceived Comfort with Difficult Conversations | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2017 | 31 |
| 46 | A Pilot Trial of Early Specialty Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges Encountered and Lessons Learned | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2018 | 31 |
| 47 | Communication Skills and Decision Making for Elderly Patients With Advanced Kidney Disease: A Guide for Nephrologists | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2016 | 30 |
| 48 | An enhanced role for palliative care in the multidisciplinary approach to high‐risk head and neck cancer | Cancer | 2016 | 29 |
| 49 | Effect of an Oncology Nurse–Led Primary Palliative Care Intervention on Patients With Advanced Cancer | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2021 | 29 |
| 50 | A cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of undertreatment of nonpain symptoms and factors associated with undertreatment in older nursing home hospice/palliative care patients | American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy | 2010 | 28 |
