"I couldn't say goodbye": Thematic analysis of interviews with bereaved relatives who lost their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Delivering serious news is usually challenging for healthcare professionals and the pandemic of COVID-19 and related restrictions brought additional challenges in this process.

Aims: To explore the experience of bereaved relatives with receiving serious news from healthcare professionals during the pandemic COVID-19.

Design: A qualitative study using thematic analysis and a codebook approach of data collected in semi-structured interviews with bereaved relatives.

Leadership Core Competencies in Palliative Care-Recommendations from the European Association for Palliative Care: Delphi Study.

Leadership competencies are essential for the future development of the field of palliative and hospice care. However, a consensus on the core competencies of good leadership is not yet available. To elicit consensus on core leadership competencies in palliative care.

Implementation of an Advance Care Planning Intervention in Nursing Homes: An International Multiple Case Study.

Background And Objectives: The inability of individuals in the advanced stage of dementia to communicate about preferences in care at the end-of-life poses a challenge for healthcare professionals and family carers. The proven effective Family Carer Decision Support intervention has been designed to inform family carers about end-of-life care options available to a person living with advanced dementia. The objectives of the mySupport study were to adapt the application of the intervention for use in different countries, assess impact on family satisfaction and decision-making, and identify costs and supportive conditions for the implementation of the intervention.

Calling emergency medical services for terminally ill patients: a qualitative study exploring reasons why informal caregivers make the call.

Background: Although emergency medical service is focused on providing acute prehospital treatment, it is often used by terminally ill patients and their informal caregivers during the last days of patient's life. Little is known about why they decide to use the emergency medical services.

Study Objective: The aim was to explore informal caregivers' motivation and decision-making process for calling emergency medical services for their terminally ill loved ones.

Hope and illness expectations: A cross-sectional study in patients with advanced cancer.

Background: The fear of taking away hope hinders clinicians' willingness to share serious news with patients with advanced disease. Unrealistic illness expectations, on the other hand, can complicate decision making and end-of-life care outcomes. Exploration of the association between hope and illness expectations can support clinicians in better communication with their patients.