Table 1.

Screening Guidelines Used to Locate Appropriate Literature for this Review.

Guideline Include Exclude
Does this study describe the important aspects of palliative care? Palliative care is defined as follows:
Patient- and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering
Palliative care may be reported as:
  • End-of-life care
  • Restorative care
  • Bereavement care
  • Experimental studies that do not evaluate palliative care interventions
  • Experimental studies evaluating palliative care not focused on patient–family dyad
What type of study is it?
  • Randomized controlled trials
  • Cross-sectional studies
  • Cohort studies
  • Observational studies
  • Controlled before–after studies
  • Interrupted time series studies
  • Repeated measure studies
  • Non-randomized trials
  • Longitudinal studies
  • Commentaries
  • Case reports
  • Case series
  • Editorials
RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2020 October; 11(4): e0034. ISSN: 2076-9172
Published online 2020 October 14. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10394