ArticleCancers2021
The Role of Advance Care Planning in Cancer Patient and Caregiver Grief Resolution: Helpful or Harmful?
Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05587517 (A Clinical Trial of Interventions to Support Family Surrogates of Critically Ill Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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A Clinical Trial of Interventions to Support Family Surrogates of Critically Ill Patients
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care.Research square · 2025Article
- Multi Components in the Implementation of Advanced Care Planning for Patients with Cancer: A Scoping Review.Journal of caring sciences · 2025Review
- Patient-caregiver concordance on death preparedness over Taiwanese cancer patients' last 6 months.The oncologist · 2025Article
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- Development and refinement of a novel end-of-life planning website for patients with advanced cancer: a mixed methods approach.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Advance Care Planning and Health-Related Quality of Life in Huntington Disease: Results from a Multicenter National Study.Palliative medicine reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cancer patients and their family caregivers experience various losses when patients become terminally ill, yet little is known about the grief experienced by patients and caregivers and factors that influence grief as patients approach death. Additionally, few, if any, studies have explored associations between advance care planning (ACP) and grief resolution among cancer patients and caregivers. To fill this knowledge gap, the current study examined changes in grief over time in patients and their family caregivers and whether changes in patient grief are associated with changes in caregiver grief. We also sought to determine how grief changed following the completion of advance directives. The sample included advanced cancer patients and caregivers (
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