The American journal of hospice & palliative care
August 28, 2026
Krishna Hanubal, Akul Munjal, Jino Park et al.
PurposeDespite most psychedelic substances remaining Schedule I, clinical research exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) in oncology is expanding. We sought to assess oncology providers' attitudes toward and understanding of PAT.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals involved in oncology across five academic institutions in California, South Carolina,...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
March 1, 2025
Kwonoh Park, Jae-Joon Kim, Sang-Bo Oh et al.
4 citations
Ketamine has been used to control refractory cancer pain as an adjuvant to opioids. We conducted a prospective phase II study to investigate the efficacy and safety of 5-day continuous intravenous infusion (CIVI) of Ketamine in terminally ill cancer patients with refractory cancer pain. Hospitalized terminally ill cancer patients with refractory cancer pain were enrolled. Refractory cancer pain...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
March 1, 2025
John R Reed, Stephanie K Parks, Antony Kaniaru et al.
1 citation
The goal of palliative care is to focus on the holistic needs of the patient and their family versus the pathology of the patient's diagnosis to reduce the stress of illness. U.S. servicemembers deployed to austere environments worldwide have significantly less access to palliative care than in military treatment facilities in the U.S. Preparation for future conflicts introduces the concept of...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
June 1, 2017
Madelaine Lawrence
The purpose of this article is to describe examples of near-death and other transpersonal experiences occurring during catastrophic events like floods, wars, bombings, and death camps. To date, researchers have limited their investigations of these transpersonal events to those occurring to seriously ill patients in hospitals, those dying from terminal illnesses, or to individuals experiencing...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
March 1, 2015
Monika Renz, M Schuett Mao, A Omlin et al.
Spirituality encompasses a wide range of meanings between holistic wellbeing and mysticism. We explored advanced cancer patients' spiritual experiences of transcendence. A total of 251 patients with advanced cancer were included and observed (participant observation) over 12 months by a psycho-oncologist/music-therapist. She recorded and documented patients' spontaneously expressed spiritual...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
November 1, 2013
Madelaine Lawrence, Elizabeth Repede
The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of deathbed communications (DBCs) during the 30 days before death and their impact on the dying process. A total of 60 hospice chart audits and 75 survey responses by hospice nurses across the United States were analyzed. Chart audits revealed 5 (8.33%) of the 60 included descriptions of DBCs. The survey of 75 hospice nurses identified...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
2006
Leonard D Wright
Meditation has been a spiritual and healing tradition for centuries. In 1972, Keith Wallace and Herbert Benson published a landmark article looking at meditation from a scientific perspective. The author reviewed their article, plus selected scientific literature on meditation since that time, to see if there was enough evidence to warrant the inclusion of meditation in the treatment protocols...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
2004
Xolani Kacela
Healthy religious experience is defined by certain qualities of expression. In an effort to explore the concept of mature religious phenomenology, this article includes descriptions of two encounters from personal pastoral experience. The first encounter shows how a person with an unhealthy religious experience faces death. The second encounter describes an expression of mature religious...