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Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Dec 24;49(5):904–15.e1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.10.018

Table 2.

Content Areas of Available Surveys

Frequency of Unique Abstracted Survey Questions by Content Area
Survey Name # of
Studies
Citation
Number a
Total
Unique
Abstracted
Questions
Total
Domains
Covered
Information
and Care
Planning
Provider
Care
Symptom
Management
Overall
Experience
Spiritual,
Religious,
and
Existential
Psychosocial
Care
Caregiver
Support
Responsiveness
& Timing
Other Personal
Care
Bereavement
Support
Quality
of Death
Environment Financial
Needs
Family Satisfaction with
 Advanced Cancer
 Care
10 4, 14, 31, 45,
46, 51, 52,
56, 70, 71
30 6 14 9 1 1 4 1
Family Evaluation of
 Hospice Care
8 19, 57, 68, 69,
72, 81, 82, 87
56 12 18 3 10 3 4 5 5 1 2 1 2 2
After-death Bereaved
 Family Member
 Interview
9 5, 8, 9, 18, 32,
36, 65, 73, 80
74 12 30 2 14 2 6 6 3 1 1 5 1 3
Quality of Dying and
 Death
6 35, 42, 49, 62,
63, 65
48 9 4 6 15 12 3 1 4 3
Family Assessment of
 Treatment of End-of-
 Life
4 15, 28, 53, 75 58 11 19 4 11 4 3 2 4 3 3 1 4
Views of Informal Carers
 Evaluation of Services
4 3, 10, 20, 59 45 6 11 6 25 1 1 1
End of Life in
 Dementia–
 Satisfaction with Care,
 Symptom
 Management, &
 Comfort Assessment
 in Dying
3 18, 44, 84 41 7 4 1 27 3 4 1 1
Quality of End-of-Life
 Care and Satisfaction
 with Treatment
3 7, 78, 79 47 5 14 3 1 18 11
Family Satisfaction in the
 ICU
3 21, 34, 49 25 7 11 2 5 1 2 1 3
Regional Study of Care
 for the Dying
3 24, 25, 26 4 1 4
End of Life Care in Acute
 Care Hospitals
 (Caregiver and Patient
 Versions)
2 39, 40 43 8 20 7 1 5 7 1 1 1
Satisfaction scale for
 Family members
 receiving Inpatient
 Palliative Care
2 60, 61 57 12 11 8 3 2 2 3 6 6 1 3 8 4
Primary Caregiver
 Satisfaction with
 Hospice Social
 Services
1 6 12 7 3 1 1 2 2 2 1
Client-centered care
 questionnaire
1 12 15 1 15
Reid-Gun dlach
 Satisfaction with
 Services
1 13 36 4 27 7 1 1
Client Satisfaction Survey 1 13 13 3 4 1 8
Quality of dying in long-
 term care
1 18 9 4 3 1 3 2
Primary Care Assessment
 Survey
1 29 8 5 3 2 1 1 1
Canadian Health Care
 Evaluation Project
1 38 73 11 20 13 2 7 10 7 6 2 2 2 2
Family Satisfaction with
 Care Questionnaire
1 43 36 9 18 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2
Admission and follow-up
 patient satisfaction
 questionnaire
1 83 15 4 4 6 1 4
Care Evaluation Scale 1 86 5 3 2 2 1
Family Perception of
 Care Scale
1 85 27 8 10 2 1 1 4 4 3 2
Caregiver Satisfaction
 survey (Steele 2002)
1 76 15 7 3 2 5 1 1 2 1
Good Death Inventory
 (Miyashita, 2008b)
1 88 54 9 4 7 4 14 11 3 7 3 1
Adams (2009) survey 1 1 1 1 1
Addington-Hall (1995)
 survey
1 2 23 4 8 1 10 4
Billings (1999) survey 1 11 36 7 14 1 3 5 1 10 2
Casarett (2003) survey 1 16 7 3 4 2 1
de Vogel-Voogt (2007)
 survey
1 22 8 2 2 7 1
Demmer (2002) survey 1 23 3 4 1 2
Field (1998) survey 1 27 22 6 3 9 1 1 6 2
Flock (2011) survey 1 30 25 6 8 4 10 1 1 1
Grande (2009) survey 1 33 8 5 3 2 1 1 1
Hanson (2008) survey 1 37 16 4 1 9 1 5
Patient Judgment of
 Hospice Quality
 (Heyland, 2003)
1 41 4 3 1 1 2
Lecouturier (1999)
 survey
1 47 19 5 7 6 4 1 1
Ledeboer (2008) survey 1 48 10 5 4 1 3 1 1
Marco (2005) survey 1 54 10 8 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Merrouche (1996) survey 1 55 12 7 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 1
Nolen-Hoeksema (2000)
 survey
1 64 4 2 1 3
Norris (2007) survey 1 65 14 4 8 2 2 2
O’Mahony (2005) survey 1 66 21 8 7 1 3 3 1 3 1 2
Shinjo (2010) survey 1 74 37 8 14 1 2 6 6 5 1 2
Patient satisfaction
 survey (Steele 2002)
1 76 20 9 2 3 5 2 1 1 4 1 1
Satisfaction with day
 hospices by caregivers
 (Miyashita 2008)
1 58 19 8 5 2 1 4 4 1 1 1
Family Perception
 of Physician–
 Family
 Caregiver
 Communication
other
 source
7 1 7
Hospice Report Card Other
 source
14 7 2 1 3 2 1 4 1
National
 Association of Home
 Care and Hospice-
 Hospice
 Bereavement Survey
Other
 source
15 4 1 1 5 8
Palliative Care
 Outcomes Scale
Other
 source
12 5 1 6 3 1 1
Press-Ganey
 Hospice Survey
Other
 source
43 8 5 11 2 3 3 4 13 1
Total Number
 of 51 surveys
1256 45 35 30 28 26 23 20 18 16 16 13 12 11 11
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Citation numbers correspond to citations in the Appendix, available at jpsmjournal.com.