| CIBB | Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology |
| DOAJ | Directory of open access journals |
| EOL | End-of-Life |
| FAMCARE | Family Caregiver Satisfaction with Palliative Care |
| IndexRMP | Índex de Revistas Médicas Portuguesas |
| M | Mean |
| MDPI | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| PC | Palliative Care |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses |
| RCAAP | Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal |
| RCTs | Randomized Controlled Trials |
| RoBANS | Risk of Bias Assessment Tool for Non-Randomized Studies |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SUCEH21 | Users’ Satisfaction with Nursing Care instrument |