BMC Palliat Care. 2025 Oct 28;24(1):274. doi: 10.1186/s12904-025-01909-w.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The aging population and rising prevalence of chronic illnesses emphasize the importance of palliative care (PC), which focuses on enhancing patients’ quality of life (QoL) while supporting their families and caregivers. PC integrates multidisciplinary interventions to alleviate the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering of individuals facing serious or terminal illnesses. Concurrently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements have been transforming the healthcare sector, particularly through Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). Leveraged by advanced algorithms and machine learning (ML), these tools analyze large volumes of data to support diagnostics, personalized treatments, and early interventions.…
Origen: Mapping study on AI-based technologies in palliative care – a scoping study – PubMed

Palliat Support Care. 2025 Oct 29;23:e194. doi: 10.1017/S1478951525100813.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVES: Palliative care enhances life, but rural Australia faces significant inequities, and psychosocial distress, an important yet often overlooked aspect, is under-recognized in these settings. This study examines how psychosocial distress evolves in rural palliative patients using the Death and Dying Distress Scale (DADDS).METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted with palliative care patients in rural hospitals on Australia’s east coast. Distress levels were measured using DADDS at multiple timepoints. Mixed-effects models assessed distress trajectories, while survival analyses (Weibull model) examined whether average distress changes predicted survival duration. For comparability, DADDS scores in mixed-effects…
Origen: Psychosocial distress in rural palliative care: Preliminary longitudinal findings using the DADDS – PubMed

BMC Palliat Care. 2025 Oct 27;24(1):272. doi: 10.1186/s12904-025-01912-1.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: At the end of life, patients frequently experience distressing symptoms. When they become refractory, sedating medications and palliative sedation (PS) may be used to alleviate suffering. PS is mainly practised in specialist settings, as it requires defined procedures and guidelines. Little is known, however, about how registered nurses (RNs) and healthcare assistants (HCAs) manage refractory symptoms and unbearable suffering in nursing homes and how sedating medications are used in this non-specialist setting. This study explored how RNs and HCAs in Swiss nursing homes recognise, assess, and alleviate unbearable suffering, the challenges they…
Origen: Recognising and alleviating unbearable suffering in residents living in Swiss nursing homes: a grounded theory study on nursing staff's perspectives on sedating medications and palliative sedation – PubMed

Support Care Cancer. 2025 Oct 28;33(11):987. doi: 10.1007/s00520-025-10074-y.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Continuous deep sedation (CDS) provides palliative relief for intractable suffering, especially in the context of cancer. This procedure is recognized to create a specific experiential context for both professionals implementing it and relatives supporting the patient. The aim of the current study was to explore and compare the perceptions and experiences concerning CDS.METHODS: The APSY-SED study is a multicenter, prospective, and longitudinal study using a mixed-methods design. We present here the qualitative results derived from a lexicometric analysis of interviews conducted with relatives and healthcare professionals at T1 (when CDS is initiated).RESULTS:…
Origen: Continuous deep sedation until death in terminal cancer: a lexicometric analysis of professionals' and relatives' experience – PubMed

J Med Internet Res. 2025 Oct 28;27:e72104. doi: 10.2196/72104.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Digital health (DH) provides a valuable opportunity for accessible and efficient palliative care delivery. In recent years, an expanding body of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has examined DH-based interventions in palliative care. However, their conclusions regarding effects remain inconsistent, often constrained by methodological limitations and the variable quality of primary studies, making it difficult to form a coherent appraisal.OBJECTIVE: This umbrella review aimed to examine, appraise, and synthesize previous systematic reviews and evaluate the role of DH-based services on palliative care, and to identify barriers to using DH-based services in these…
Origen: Role of Digital Health on Palliative Care: Umbrella Review – PubMed