PubMed Central, : RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2020 October; 11(4): e0034. ISSN: 2076-9172Published online 2020 October 14. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10394

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