Palliative Medicine
Last updated ISSN 0269-2163
Palliative Medicine is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Palliative Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Family Support in Illness
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0269-2163, 1477-030X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,400 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 4,906 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | pmj.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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