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Terminal Care

Terminal Care is a palliative care subspecialty focused on the specialized medical and psychosocial support provided during the final days or hours of life, distinguished from broader end-of-life care by its exclusive concentration on the interval immediately preceding imminent death.

2.3K

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108.7K

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7.2K

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2.4K

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2017–2026

540

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Publications

2.3K

Illness trajectories and palliative care

Scott A Murray, Marilyn Kendall, Kirsty Boyd et al. · BMJ · 2005 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care

Joan M. Teno · JAMA · 2004 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study Commentary: Why do doctors overestimate? Commentary: Prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition

Nicholas A. Christakis · BMJ · 2000 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Increased Satisfaction with Care and Lower Costs: Results of a Randomized Trial of In‐Home Palliative Care

Richard Brumley, Susan Enguídanos, Paula Jamison et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2007 · 861 citations

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Global Atlas of Palliative Care at the End of Life

Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance · 2014 · 779 citations

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Authors

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  1. IJ
    Irene J Higginson

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    23 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. LD
    Luc Deliëns

    Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

    30 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. ÉB
    Éduardo Bruera

    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States

    22 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. DC
    David C. Currow

    Flinders University, Australia

    19 publications · 972 citations

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  5. SP
    Sheila Payne

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    23 publications · 1K citations

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Institutions

2.4K

  1. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    New York, United States

    30 h-index

    131 publications

    10.8K citations

  2. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    102 publications

    7.4K citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    26 h-index

    145 publications

    6.6K citations

  4. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    23 h-index

    89 publications

    4.5K citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    23 h-index

    79 publications

    3.7K citations

  6. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    22 h-index

    79 publications

    5.8K citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    22 h-index

    124 publications

    7.2K citations

  8. University of Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada

    20 h-index

    84 publications

    4.6K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

    203 publications · 12K citations

    57

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  2. Palliative Medicine

    142 publications · 7.8K citations

    52

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  3. Journal of Palliative Medicine

    189 publications · 8.9K citations

    51

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  4. PubMed

    Repository · 122 publications · 3.6K citations

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