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Palliative Medicine

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    Outcomes after emergency department use in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy in Ontario, Canada: a population-based cohort study
    Keerat Grewal, Monika K. Krzyzanowska, Shelley McLeod, Bjug Borgundvaag and Clare L. Atzema
    August 12, 2020 8 (3) E496-E505; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20190198
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    Palliative care clinical rotations among undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees in Canada: a descriptive study
    Bruno Gagnon, Anne Boyle, Fabienne Jolicoeur, Mauranne Labonté, Kim Taylor and James Downar
    April 14, 2020 8 (2) E257-E263; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20190138
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    Trends in site of death and health care utilization at the end of life: a population-based cohort study
    Andrea D. Hill, Therese A. Stukel, Longdi Fu, Damon C. Scales, Andreas Laupacis, Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Hannah Wunsch, James Downar, Kenneth Rockwood, Daren K. Heyland, Samir K. Sinha, Camilla Zimmermann, Sonal Gandhi, Jeff Myers, Heather J. Ross, Jean F. Kozak, Scott Berry, Shelly P. Dev, Ignazio La Delfa and Robert A. Fowler
    April 26, 2019 7 (2) E306-E315; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180097
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    Impact of comprehensive hospice palliative care on end-of-life care: a propensity-score–matched retrospective observational study
    Michael S.C. Conlon, Joseph M. Caswell, Andrew Knight, Barbara Ballantyne, Stacey A. Santi, Margaret L. Meigs, Craig C. Earle and Mark Hartman
    April 04, 2019 7 (2) E197-E202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180148
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    Community-based specialist palliative care teams and health system costs at end of life: a retrospective matched cohort study
    Hsien Seow, Lialoma Salam-White and Daryl Bainbridge
    February 11, 2019 7 (1) E73-E80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180113
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    Role of allied health care professionals in goals-of-care discussions with hospitalized patients and perceived barriers: a cross-sectional survey
    Leslie Martin, Ameen Patel, Katrina Piggott, Arthur Wong, Alexandra Patel, Matthew Patel, Yudong Liu, Sukhbinder Dhesy-Thind, Parveen Wasi and John J. You
    June 22, 2018 6 (2) E241-E247; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20170162
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    Prevalence of symptoms at the end of life in an acute care hospital: a retrospective cohort study
    Daniel Kobewka, Paul Ronksley, Dan McIsaac, Sunita Mulpuru and Alan Forster
    March 09, 2017 5 (1) E222-E228; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20160123
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    Pediatric palliative care in Canada in 2012: a cross-sectional descriptive study
    Kimberley Widger, Dawn Davies, Adam Rapoport, Christina Vadeboncoeur, Stephen Liben, Amrita Sarpal, Simone Stenekes, Claude Cyr, Lysanne Daoust, Marie-Claude Grégoire, Marli Robertson, Heather Hodgson-Viden, Julie Laflamme and Harold Siden
    October 11, 2016 4 (4) E562-E568; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20160054
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    Medical end-of-life practices among Canadian physicians: a pilot study
    Isabelle Marcoux, Antoine Boivin, Laura Mesana, Ian D. Graham and Paul Hébert
    May 05, 2016 4 (2) E222-E229; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20150084
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    Physicians and euthanasia: a Canadian print-media discourse analysis of physician perspectives
    David Kenneth Wright, Jennifer R. Fishman, Hadi Karsoho, Sarah Sandham and Mary Ellen Macdonald
    April 02, 2015 3 (2) E134-E139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20140071

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