- 855studies on this subject, of 27,380 in the library
- 839peer-reviewed
- 1977–2026years published
- 43median usefulness score out of 100
These counts and lists are worked out from the library itself each time the page loads. A score rates how much weight a study can bear — its design, journal, evidence and recency — not whether its result is good news. How we score a study.
The 20 highest-scoring studies
- Palliative care interventions in advanced dementia
- Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial
- Advance Care Planning Video Intervention Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
- An Advance Care Planning Video Decision Support Tool for Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
- Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial
- Palliative care interventions in advanced dementia
- Educating Dutch General Practitioners in Dementia Advance Care Planning: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
- Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus nurse-led telephonic palliative care of older adults with advanced illness
- Improving comfort around dying in elderly people: a cluster randomised controlled trial
- Effect of the Goals of Care Intervention for Advanced Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Level of Care Preferences Among Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia
- Triggered Palliative Care Consults: A Systematic Review of Interventions for Hospitalized and Emergency Department Patients
- Concordance Between Proxy Level of Care Preference and Advance Directives Among Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
- Discontinuation of Preventive Medicines in Older People with Limited Life Expectancy: A Systematic Review
- Cannabis in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence
- Patient and caregiver characteristics associated with caregiver burden in Parkinson's disease: a palliative care approach
- Evaluation of a Palliative Care Program for Nursing Homes in 7 Countries: The PACE Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial
- Interventions for improving palliative care for older people living in nursing care homes
- Tools Measuring Quality of Death, Dying, and Care, Completed after Death: Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties
- Processes of consent in research for adults with impaired mental capacity nearing the end of life: systematic review and transparent expert consultation (MORECare_Capacity statement)
See all 855 studies in End-of-life care, with filters →
Newest additions on this subject
- Patient-Reported Shared Decision-Making and Documented Advance Care Planning Among Adults With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
- Perceived Barriers for Advance Care Planning Among People with Dementia and Family Caregivers: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies
- Person-Centred Care: Impact on the Effectiveness of Palliative Care in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Is there a role for artificial intelligence in end-of-life care for persons with dementia? Perspectives of and recommendations by caregivers and hospice staff
- AI on Alzheimer Disease: Large-Scale Reproduction Shows the Field’s Hypotheses Cannot Be Distinguished on Common Data
- Palliative care documentation in gastrointestinal bleeding hospitalizations: national trends and associated care patterns
- Public Preferences for End-of-Life Timing in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias
- Attitudes and Decisional Conflict in Family Caregivers of Persons With Dementia: A Mediating Role of Perceived Benefits of Advance Care Planning
- Voluntary assisted dying views and experiences of Australians living with dementia: a qualitative study
- End-of-life and Palliative Care in Dementia: An Overview for Clinicians
All 855 studies in End-of-life care, newest first →
From across this subject
9 of the 850 studies in this subject, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date. The same 9 appear here every time.
- Continuity of primary care and end-of-life care costs in dementia: a retrospective cohort study
- End-of-life decisions in individuals dying with dementia in Belgium
- Dementia and End-of-Life Shared Decision-Making Among Older US Adults
- Preventing Burdensome Transitions of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia: It's More than Advance Directives
- Transitional care needs of persons with dementia and their care partners: a secondary analysis using Transitions Theory
- Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in Elderly: A Twenty-Four Month Cohort of Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight Patients with Serious Advanced Illness Advance Care Planning Cascade, Goals-of-Care Concordance, and Determinants Across Four Frailty Strata
- End-of-Life and Hospice Care in Neurologic Diseases
- Intensive care at the end of life in patients dying due to non-cancer chronic diseases versus cancer: a nationwide study in Denmark
- Palliative care for Parkinson's disease: a summary of the evidence and future directions
What the library holds on this subject
By review status
| Status | Studies |
|---|---|
| Peer-reviewed | 839 |
| Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed | 13 |
| Report — not peer-reviewed | 2 |
| Regulatory decision — not a study | 1 |
By strength of evidence
| Rated in our summary | Studies |
|---|---|
| low | 623 |
| moderate | 139 |
| high | 93 |
Most frequent journals
| Journal | Studies |
|---|---|
| Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 62 |
| Palliative medicine | 45 |
| Journal of pain and symptom management | 33 |
| Journal of the American Medical Directors Association | 32 |
| Journal of palliative medicine | 30 |
| BMC palliative care | 20 |
| PloS one | 18 |
| International psychogeriatrics | 17 |
| The American journal of hospice & palliative care | 16 |
| JAMA | 14 |
Studies by year published
| Year | Studies | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 61 | |
| 2025 | 123 | |
| 2024 | 15 | |
| 2023 | 12 | |
| 2022 | 20 | |
| 2021 | 29 | |
| 2020 | 48 | |
| 2019 | 48 | |
| 2018 | 56 | |
| 2017 | 57 | |
| 2016 | 48 | |
| 2015 | 42 | |
| 2014 | 37 | |
| 2013 | 36 | |
| 2012 | 26 | |
| 2011 | 25 | |
| 2010 | 28 | |
| 2009 | 18 | |
| 2008 | 18 | |
| 2007 | 12 | |
| 2006 | 13 | |
| 2005 | 13 | |
| 2004 | 12 | |
| 2003 | 10 | |
| 2002 | 9 | |
| 2001 | 7 | |
| 2000 | 12 | |
| 1999 | 2 | |
| 1998 | 3 | |
| 1997 | 2 | |
| 1996 | 2 | |
| 1995 | 3 | |
| 1994 | 1 | |
| 1993 | 2 | |
| 1992 | 2 | |
| 1990 | 1 | |
| 1986 | 1 | |
| 1977 | 1 |
Counts the 855 studies with a usable publication date. The library is a large sample of published work, not a complete index, so these counts describe the library, not the whole field.
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