ArticleJournal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care2015
Missed Opportunity: Hospice Care and the Family.
Article in Journal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Family Bereavement Support Interventions in Specialist Adult Palliative Care: A Rapid Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Beyond grief: Quantifying bereavement needs of rural family caregivers.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Trial
- Bereaved informal caregivers' experiences with a Canadian home hospice program: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- "The Day He Fell Ill, We Turned on a Switch…Now, Everything Is My Responsibility": Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies Among Partners of Patients with Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- A qualitative exploration of the impact of healthcare pre- and post-death on bereavement experiences.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- Effectiveness of palliative care consultation service on caregiver burden over time between terminally ill cancer and non-cancer family caregivers.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020Article
- Cancer Caregivers' Preparedness for Loss and Bereavement Outcomes: Do Preloss Caregiver Attributes Matter?Omega · 2019Article
- Communication of emotion in home hospice cancer care: Implications for spouse caregiver depression into bereavement.Psycho-oncology · 2019Observational
- Nursing Support of Home Hospice Caregivers on the Day of Patient Death.Oncology nursing forum · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
A typical mission statement of hospice services is to provide quality, compassionate care to those with terminal illness and to support families through caregiving and bereavement. This study explored the ways that bereavement needs of caregivers, either predeath or postdeath of their spouse/partner, were addressed using qualitative retrospective phone interviews with 19 caregivers whose spouse/partner was enrolled in hospice care for cancer. Overall, participants expressed high satisfaction with hospice care, most often noting a high satisfaction with the quality of care provided to their spouse/partner. During the predeath phase, caregivers recalled being so focused on their spouse/partner's needs that they rarely spoke with hospice staff about their own personal needs and emotions. Participants said that bereavement counseling occurred primarily after the death of the spouse/partner, in the form of generic pamphlets or phone calls from someone they had not met during prior interactions with hospice staff. These findings suggest that caregivers' high satisfaction with hospice may be more associated with the quality of care provided to the spouse/partner than with bereavement support they received. Our findings illustrated a potential missed opportunity for hospices to address the family-oriented goals that are commonly put forward in hospice mission statements.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.