Informal Hospice Caregiving: The Toll on Quality of Life.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Psychometric properties of carer-reported outcome measures in palliative care: A systematic review.Palliative medicine · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Informal caregiving of hospice patients.Journal of palliative medicine · 2014
   Pooled it
3. Hospice caregiver depression: the evidence surrounding the greatest pain of all.Journal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care · 2013
   Pooled it
4. Resilience in middle-aged partners of patients diagnosed with incurable cancer: A thematic analysis.PloS one · 2019
   Trial
5. The Social Convoy for Family Caregivers Over the Course of Hospice.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2016
   Trial
6. Unique characteristics of informal hospice cancer caregiving.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2015
   Trial
7. Understanding social support burden among family caregivers.Health communication · 2014
   Trial
8. Anxiety, Depression, Quality of Life, Caregiver Burden, and Perceptions of Caregiver-Centered Communication among Black and White Hospice Family Caregivers.Journal of palliative medicine · 2022
   Article
9. Behind the doors of home hospice patients: A secondary qualitative analysis of hospice nurse communication with patients and families.Palliative & supportive care · 2019
   Article
10. Reporting of "quality of life": a systematic review and quantitative analysis of research publications in palliative care journals.Indian journal of palliative care · 2012
    Article
11. Reciprocal suffering: caregiver concerns during hospice care.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2011
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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