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ArticleJournal of palliative medicine2024

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Attending to the Existential Experience.

Elise C Tarbi, Caitlyn M Moore, Cara L Wallace, Yvan Beaussant, Elizabeth G Broden, Danielle Chammas, Paul Galchutt, Danielle Gilchrist, Adam Hayden, Brianna Morgan and 5 more

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Article in Journal of palliative medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Attachment at the end of life: A systematic review.Palliative & supportive care · 2025
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  3. Perceived Preparedness in Psycho-Oncology: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of Expectations and Training Experiences Among Undergraduate Psychology Students.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Elise C TarbiDepartment of Nursing, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Caitlyn M MooreCollege of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Cara L WallaceTrudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Yvan BeaussantDepartment of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3716-6736
Elizabeth G BrodenNational Clinician Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Danielle ChammasDepartment of Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Paul GalchuttDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Danielle GilchristDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Adam HaydenIndependent Scholar and Unaffiliated Patient Advocate.
Brianna MorganDivision of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
Leah B RosenbergDepartment of Medicine, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Zachary SagerDepartment of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sheldon SolomonSkidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.
William E RosaDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0680-8911
Harvey Max ChochinovDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying and attending to the existential needs of persons with serious illness and their care partners are integral to whole-person palliative care (PC). Yet, many PC clinicians, due to individual factors and wider systemic barriers, are ill-prepared and under-resourced to navigate the existential dimension. In this article, written from clinical, research, and lived experiences, we offer tips to empower PC clinicians to understand, recognize, and respond to patients' and care partners' existential experiences by leveraging their existing skills, collaborating closely with colleagues, exploring their own existential experience, and implementing evidence-based interventions. We propose that by prioritizing existential care within PC, we can shift the culture of health care to better affirm the humanity of both patients and clinicians.

Indexed as

ExistentialismPalliative CareAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Agedclinician/patient communicationexistentialismserious illnesswhole-person palliative care

Identifiers

PMID38546453
PMCPMC12372912

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