2024

Rietze, L. L., Stajduhar, K. I., Purkis, M. E., & Cloutier, D. The challenges of advance care planning for acute care registered nurses. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 2024; online first. doi:10.1177/08445621241244532 Link 

Hoben, M., Dymchuk, E., Doupe, M. B., Keefe, J., Aubrecht, K., Kelly, C., Stajduhar, K., Banerjee, S., O’Rourke, H. M., Chamberlain, S., Beeber, A., Salma, J., Jarrett, P., Arya, A., Corbett, K., Devkota, R., Ristau, M., Shrestha, S., & Estabrooks, C. A. Counting what counts: Assessing quality of life and its social determinants among nursing home residents with dementia. BMC Geriatrics. 2024; 24, 177. doi: 10.1186/s12877-024-04710-1 Link 

Scruton, S., Warner, G., Kendell, C., Pfaff, K., Stajduhar, K., Patrick, L., Dujela, C., Fauteux, F., & Urquhart, R. Navigation programs to support community-dwelling individuals with life-limiting illness: determinants of implementation and scale-up. BMC Health Research. 2024; 24(39). doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10541-y Link 

Stajduhar, K. I., Giesbrecht, M., Mollison, A., Whitlock, K., Burek, P., Black, F., Gerke, J., Dosani, N., & Colgan, S. “You can’t die here”: An exploration of the barriers to dying-in-place for structurally vulnerable populations in an urban centre in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Palliative Care. 2024; 23(12). doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01340-7 Link

2023

Cherba, M., Funk, L., Scott, E., Salman, B., Rounce, A., Krawczyk, M., Mackenzie, C., Stajduhar, K., Dujela, C., & Cohen, S. R. (2023). How initial policy responses to COVID-19 contributed to shaping dying at home preferences and care provision: Key informant perspectives from three Canadian provinces. BMC Health Services Research. 2023. 12: 1330. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10340-x Link

Urquhart, R., Kendell, C., Pfaff, K., Stajduhar, K., Dujela, C., Patrick, L., Scruton, S., Fauteux, F., & Warner, G. How do navigation programs address the needs of those living in the community with advanced, life-limiting illness? A realist evaluation of programs in Canada. BMJ Palliative Care. 2023; 22(1), 179. doi: 10.1186/s12904-023-01304-3 Link 

Scott, E., Funk, L.M., Cherba, M., Krawczyk, M., Rounce, A., Stajduhar, K., & Cohen, S.R. Naturalization of dying at home for older adults: A critical analysis of Canadian public policy texts. Canadian Public Administration. 2023. 66(4): 533-555. doi: 10.1111/capa.12546 Link

Carter R C, Siden E, Husband A, Barwich D, Soheilipour S, Kryworuchko J, Sawatzky R, Kazanjian A, Stajduhar K, & Hassan E. Community-led, peer-facilitated Advance Care Planning workshops prompt increased Advance Care Planning behaviours among public attendees. PEC Innovation. 2023; 3: 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2023.100199  Link 

Sawatzky R, Porterfield P, Donald E, Taylor C, Stajduhar K, & Thorne S. Voices lost: Where is the person in evaluating a palliative approach to care? Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2023; 17. doi: 10.1177/26323524231193041 Link 

Borenko C, Simon J, Myers J, Diedrich K, Stajduhar K, Cash C, Wikjord N, Cory S, & Schock B. Evolution and current state of Advance Care Planning in Canada. Evolution and current state of Advance Care Planning in Canada. Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen. 2023; 180(August): 36-42. doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2023.04.009. Link 

Chan W-S, Funk L, Krawczyk M, Cohen S. R, Cherba M, Dujela C, & Stajduhar K. Community perspectives on structural barriers to dying well at home in Canada. Palliative & Supportive Care. 2023; 1-7. doi: 10.1017/S1478951523001074 Link

Mróz L, Soheilipour S, Siden E, Carter R Z, Kryworuchko J, Sawatzky R, Husband A, Stajduhar K, Barwich D, & Hassan E. “Now I get what’s important” – Shifting philosophies of hospice society staff and trained volunteers involved in peer-facilitated Advance Care Planning workshops for the public. Patient Education and Counseling. 2023; 115. doi: org/10.1016/j.pec.2023.107925 Link

Stajudhar K, Sawatzky K, Funk L, Cohen S R, Bitschy A, Donald E, & Votova K. Shifts in homecare nursing practices and their implications for families and clients receiving palliative care at home. Nursing Leadership. 2023; 36(1), 75-86. doi:10.12927/cjnl.2023.27122 Link

Giesbrecht M, Mollison A, Whitlock K, Stajduhar KI. “Once you open that door, it’s a floodgate”: Exploring work-related grief among community service workers providing care for structurally vulnerable populations at the end of life through participatory action research. Palliative Medicine. 2023;37(4):558-566. doi:10.1177/02692163221139727 Link

Stajduhar K, Gott M. Closing the health equity gap in palliative care: The time for action is now. Palliative Medicine. 2023;37(4):424-425. doi:10.1177/02692163231164729 Link

Bourgeois A, Horrill TC, Mollison A, Lambert LK, Stajduhar KI. Barriers to cancer treatment and care for people experiencing structural vulnerability: a secondary analysis of ethnographic data. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2023;22(1):1-2. Link

Booker R, McLennan AIG, Beattie S, Stajduhar KI, Sawatzky R. Integrating Palliative Care in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Qualitative Study Exploring Patient, Caregiver, and Clinician Perspectives. 2023;50(3):313-23. doi: 10.1188/23.ONF.313-323  Link

Seow H, Bainbridge D, Winemaker S, Stajduhar KI, Pond G, Kortes-Miller K, Marshall D, Kilbertus F, Myers J, Steinberg L, Incardona N. Increasing palliative care capacity in primary care: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial of the CAPACITI training program. BMC Palliative Care. 2023;22(1):1-12. doi:10.1186/s12904-022-01124-x Link

Bainbridge D, Bishop V, Myers J, Marshall D, Stajduhar KI, Seow H. Effectiveness of Training Programs About a Palliative Care Approach: A Systematic Review of Intervention Trials for Health Care Professionals. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2023; 1;26(4):564-81. doi:10.1089/jpm.2022.0051 Link

Funk L, Krawczyk M, Cherba M, Cohen SR, Dujela C, Nichols C, Stajduhar KI. ‘The beauty and the less beautiful’: exploring the meanings of dying at ‘home’among community and practitioner representatives and advocates across Canada. Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2023;17:26323524231156944. doi: 10.1177/26323524231156944. Link

Lambert LK, Horrill TC, Beck SM, Bourgeois A, Browne AJ, Cheng S, Howard A, Kaur J, McKenzie M, Stajduhar KI, Thorne S. Health and healthcare equity within the Canadian cancer care sector: a rapid scoping review. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2023;(1):1-3. doi:10.1186/s12939-023-01829-2. Link

Seow H, Bainbridge D, Stajduhar KI, Marshall D, Howard M, Brouwers M, Barwich D, Burge F, Kelley ML. Building palliative care capacity for generalist providers in the community: results from the CAPACITI pilot education program. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 2023;40(7). doi: 10.1177/10499091221134709. Link

2022

Yamamoto, C., Funk, L., Ethier, A., Carrier, A., Contandriopoulos, D., & Stajduhar, K. Painted in broad strokes: English-language news media coverage of home care in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Journal of Canadian Studies. 2022; 57(2): 205-232. Link

Maze C, Wilkinson C, Stajduhar KI, Daudt H, Tysick S. Perceptions of bereaved family members of nursing care on an inpatient hospice palliative care unit. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 2022;28(9):406-18. Link

Funk LM, Mackenzie CS, Cherba M, Del Rosario N, Krawczyk M, Rounce A, Stajduhar K, Cohen SR. Where would Canadians prefer to die? Variation by situational severity, support for family obligations, and age in a national study. BMC Palliative Care. 2022;21(1):1-2. doi:10.1186/s12904-022-01023-1 Link

Donald EE, Whitlock K, Dansereau T, Sands DJ, Small D, Stajduhar KI. A codevelopment process to advance methods for the use of patient‐reported outcome measures and patient‐reported experience measures with people who are homeless and experience chronic illness. Health Expectations. 2022;25(5):2264-74.doi:10.1111/hex.13489 Link

Horrill TC, Browne AJ, Stajduhar KI. Equity-oriented healthcare: What it is and why we need it in oncology. Current Oncology. 2022;(1):186-92. doi:10.3390/curroncol29010018 Link

Hoben M, Banerjee S, Beeber AS, Chamberlain SA, Hughes L, O’Rourke HM, Stajduhar KI, Shrestha S, Devkota R, Lam J, Simons I. Feasibility of routine quality of life measurement for people living with dementia in long-term care. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2022;23(7):1221-6.doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2021.07.018 Link

Wu EX, Collins A, Briggs S, Stajduhar KI, Kalsi A, Hilliard N. Prolonged Grief and Bereavement Supports Within a Caregiver Population Who Transition Through a Palliative Care Program in British Columbia, Canada. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®. 2022;(3):361-9. doi:10.1177/10499091211030442 Link

Contandriopoulos D, Stajduhar KI, Sanders T, Carrier A, Bitschy A, Funk L. A realist review of the home care literature and its blind spots. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2022;28(4):680-9. doi:10.1111/jep.13627 Link

Schick-Makaroff K, Sawatzky R, Cuthbertson L, Öhlén J, Beemer A, Duquette D, Karimi-Dehkordi M, Stajduhar KI, Suryaprakash N, Terblanche L, Wolff AC. Knowledge translation resources to support the use of quality of life assessment tools for the care of older adults living at home and their family caregivers. Quality of Life Research. 2022;1-21. doi:10.1007/s11136-021-03011-z Link

2021

Giesbrecht M, Stajduhar KI, Cloutier D, Dujela C. “We are to be like machines… fill the bed before it gets cold”: Exploring the emotional geographies of healthcare providers caring for dying residents in long-term care facilities. Social Science & Medicine. 2021;272:113749. Doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113749 Link

Cloutier D, Stajduhar KI, Roberts D, Dujela C, Roland K. ‘Bare-bones’ to ‘silver linings’: lessons on integrating a palliative approach to care in long-term care in Western Canada. BMC Health Services Research. 2021;21(1):1-3. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06606-x Link

Sawatzky R, Roberts D, Russell L, Bitschy A, Ho S, Desbiens JF, Chan EK, Tayler C, Stajduhar KI. Self-perceived competence of nurses and care aides providing a palliative approach in home, hospital, and residential care settings: a cross-sectional survey. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. 2021;53(1):64-77. doi:10.1177/0844562119881043 Link

2020

Stajduhar KI, Giesbrecht M, Mollison A, d’Archangelo M. “Everybody in this community is at risk of dying”: An ethnographic exploration on the potential of integrating a palliative approach to care among workers in inner-city settings. Palliative & Supportive Care. 2020;18(6):670-5. doi:10.1017/S1478951520000280 Link

Stajduhar KI, Giesbrecht M, Mollison A, Dosani N, McNeil R. Caregiving at the margins: An ethnographic exploration of family caregivers experiences providing care for structurally vulnerable populations at the end-of-life. Palliative Medicine. 2020;34(7):946-53. doi:10.1177/0269216320917875 Link

Keefe J, Hande MJ, Aubrecht K, Daly T, Cloutier D, Taylor D, Hoben M, Stajduhar KI, Cook H, Bourgeault IL, MacDonald L. Team-based integrated knowledge translation for enhancing quality of life in long-term care settings: A multi-method, multi-sectoral research design. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 2020;9(4):138. Doi:/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.123 Link

Stajduhar KI. Provocations on privilege in palliative care: Are we meeting our core mandate?. Progress in Palliative Care.  2020;28(2):89-93.Doi:10.1080/09699260.2019.1702334 Link

Funk LM, Stajduhar KI, Giesbrecht M, Cloutier D, Williams A, Wolse F. Applying the concept of structural empowerment to interactions between families and home‐care nurses. Nursing Inquiry. 2020 Jan;27(1):e12313. doi:/10.1111/nin.12313 Link

2019

Donald EE, Stajduhar KI. A scoping review of palliative care for persons with severe persistent mental illness. Palliative & Supportive Care. 2019;17(4):479-87. Doi:10.1017/S1478951519000087 Link

Stajduhar KI, Mollison A, Giesbrecht M, McNeil R, Pauly B, Reimer-Kirkham S, Dosani N, Wallace B, Showler G, Meagher C, Kvakic K. “Just too busy living in the moment and surviving”: barriers to accessing health care for structurally vulnerable populations at end-of-life. BMC Palliative Care. 2019;18(1):1-4. doi:/10.1186/s12904-019-0396-7 Link

Krawczyk M, Sawatzky R, Schick-Makaroff K, Stajduhar KI, Öhlen J, Reimer-Kirkham S, Mercedes Laforest E, Cohen R. Micro-meso-macro practice tensions in using patient-reported outcome and experience measures in hospital palliative care. Qualitative Health Research. 2019;29(4):510-21. doi:10.1177/1049732318761366 Link

2018

Sawatzky R, Laforest E, Schick-Makaroff K, Stajduhar KI, Reimer-Kirkham S, Krawczyk M, Öhlén J, McLeod B, Hilliard N, Tayler C, Robin Cohen S. Design and introduction of a quality of life assessment and practice support system: perspectives from palliative care settings. Journal of patient-reported outcomes. 2018;2(1):1-3. Doi: 10.1186/s41687-018-0065-2 Link

Giesbrecht M, Stajduhar KI, Mollison A, Pauly B, Reimer-Kirkham S, McNeil R, Wallace B, Rose C, Dosani N. Place-based Experiences of Formal Healthcare Settings by People Experiencing Vulnerability at the End of Life. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2018 Dec 1;56(6):e56. Doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.005 Link

Sutherland N, Ward-Griffin C, McWilliam C, Stajduhar KI. Discourses reproducing gender inequities in hospice palliative home care. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. 2018;50(4):189-201. Doi:10.1177/0844562118788239 Link

Singh P, Raffin‐Bouchal S, McClement S, Hack TF, Stajduhar KI, Hagen NA, Sinnarajah A, Chochinov HM, Sinclair S. Healthcare providers’ perspectives on perceived barriers and facilitators of compassion: results from a grounded theory study. Journal of clinical nursing. 2018 May;27(9-10):2083-97. doi:10.1111/jocn.14357 Link

Sinclair S, Hack TF, Raffin-Bouchal S, McClement S, Stajduhar KI, Singh P, Hagen NA, Sinnarajah A, Chochinov HM. What are healthcare providers’ understandings and experiences of compassion? The healthcare compassion model: a grounded theory study of healthcare providers in Canada. BMJ open. 2018;8(3):e019701. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-01970 link

2017

Stajduhar KI, Sawatzky R, Robin Cohen S, Heyland DK, Allan D, Bidgood D, Norgrove L, Gadermann AM. Bereaved family members’ perceptions of the quality of end-of-life care across four types of inpatient care settings. BMC Palliative Care. 2017;16:1-2. doi:10.1186/s12904-017-0237-5 Link

Thorne S, Stajduhar KI. Rebuilding the Roots of Patient-Centred Care. Nursing Leadership (Toronto, Ont.). 2017 Jan 1;30(1):23-9. doi:10.12927/cjnl.2017.25109 Link

Stajduhar KI, Mollison A, Gleave D, Hwang SW. When cancer hits the streets. Current Oncology. 2017;24(3):149-50. doi:10.3747/co.24.3698 Link

Sutherland N, Ward‐Griffin C, McWilliam C, Stajduhar KI. Structural impact on gendered expectations and exemptions for family caregivers in hospice palliative home care. Nursing Inquiry. 2017 Jan;24(1):e12157. doi: 10.1111/nin.12157 Link

Sawatzky R, Porterfield P, Roberts D, Lee J, Liang L, Reimer-Kirkham S, Pesut B, Schalkwyk T, Stajduhar KI, Tayler C, Baumbusch J. Embedding a palliative approach in nursing care delivery: an integrated knowledge synthesis. Ans. Advances in Nursing Science. 2017;40(3):263. doi:10.1097/ANS.0000000000000163 Link

2016

Reimer-Kirkham S, Stajduhar KI, Pauly B, Giesbrecht M, Mollison A, McNeil R, Wallace B. Death is a social justice issue. Advances in Nursing Science. 2016;39(4):293-307. doi:10.1097/ANS.0000000000000146 Link

Sutherland N, Ward-Griffin C, McWilliam C, Stajduhar KI. Gendered processes in hospice palliative home care for seniors with cancer and their family caregivers. Qualitative health research. 2016;26(7):907-20. Doi: 10.1177/1049732315609571 Link

Reimer‐Kirkham S, Sawatzky R, Roberts D, Cochrane M, Stajduhar KI. ‘Close to’a palliative approach: nurses’ and care aides’ descriptions of caring for people with advancing chronic life‐limiting conditions. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2016;25(15-16):2189-99. doi: 10.1111/jocn.13256 Link

Sawatzky R, Porterfield P, Lee J, Dixon D, Lounsbury K, Pesut B, Roberts D, Tayler C, Voth J, Stajduhar KI. Conceptual foundations of a palliative approach: a knowledge synthesis. BMC palliative care. 2016;15(1):1-4. Doi:10.1186/s1290401600769 Link

 2015

Aoun S, Deas K, Toye C, Ewing G, Grande G, Stajduhar KI. Supporting family caregivers to identify their own needs in end-of-life care: Qualitative findings from a stepped wedge cluster trial. Palliative medicine. 2015 Jun;29(6):508-17. doi:10.1177/0269216314566061 Link

Funk LM, Stajduhar KI, Outcalt L. What family caregivers learn when providing care at the end of life: A qualitative secondary analysis of multiple datasets. Palliative & supportive care. 2015;13(3):425-33. Doi: 10.1017/S1478951513001168 Link

Jeznach A, Tuokko HA, Garcia-Barrera MA, Stajduhar KI. Findings on advance care plans among cognitively impaired older adults. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 2015;34(2):165-75. Doi: 10.1017/S0714980815000021 Link

Pesut B, Potter G, Stajduhar KI, Sawatzky R, McLeod B, Drabot K. Palliative approach education for rural nurses and health-care workers: a mixed-method study. International journal of palliative nursing. 2015;21(3):142-51. Doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2015.21.3.142 Link

Aoun SM, Grande G, Howting D, Deas K, Toye C, Troeung L, Stajduhar KI, Ewing G. The impact of the carer support needs assessment tool (CSNAT) in community palliative care using a stepped wedge cluster trial. PloS one. 2015;10(4):e0123012. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123012 Link

Aoun S, Toye C, Deas K, Howting D, Ewing G, Grande G, Stajduhar KI. Enabling a family caregiver-led assessment of support needs in home-based palliative care: potential translation into practice. Palliative Medicine. 2015;29(10):929-38. Doi:10.1177/0269216315583436 Link

Lang A, Toon L, Cohen SR, Stajduhar KI, Griffin M, Fleiszer AR, Easty T, Williams A. Client, caregiver, and provider perspectives of safety in palliative home care: a mixed method design. Safety in Health. 2015;1(1):1-4. Doi: 1186/2056-5917-1-3 Link

Giesbrecht M, Wolse F, Crooks VA, Stajduhar KI. Identifying socio-environmental factors that facilitate resilience among Canadian palliative family caregivers: a qualitative case study. Palliative & supportive care. 2015;13(3):555-65. Doi: 10.1017/S1478951513001028 Link

Williams AM, Donovan R, Stajduhar KI, Spitzer D. Cultural influences on palliative family caregiving: Service recommendations specific to the Vietnamese in Canada. BMC Research Notes. 2015;8(1):1-4. Doi: 10.1186/s13104-015-1252-3 Link

Sheilds L, Molzahn A, Bruce A, Makaroff KS, Stajduhar KI, Beuthin R, Shermak S. Contrasting stories of life-threatening illness: A narrative inquiry. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2015;52(1):207-15. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.10.008 Link

Reimer-Kirkham S, Doane GH, Antifeau E, Pesut B, Porterfield P, Roberts D, Stajduhar KI, Wikjord N. Translational Scholarship and a Palliative Approach. Advances in Nursing Science. 2015;38(3):187-202. Doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000077 Link

Doane GH, Reimer-Kirkham S, Antifeau E, Stajduhar KI. (Re) theorizing Integrated Knowledge Translation. Advances in Nursing Science. 2015;38(3):175-86. Doi:10.1097/ANS.0000000000000076 Link

Rietze L, Stajduhar KI. Registered nurses’ involvement in advance care planning: an integrative review. International journal of palliative nursing. 2015;21(10):495-503. Doi: 10.12968/ijpn.2015.21.10.495 Link

2014

Roberts D, McLeod B, Stajduhar KI, Webber T, Milne K. Applying research into practice: a guide to determine the next palliative home care nurse visit. Home Healthcare Now. 2014;1;32(2):88-95. doi: 10.1097/NHH.000000000000001 Link

Giesbrecht MD, Crooks VA, Stajduhar KI. Examining the language–place–healthcare intersection in the context of Canadian homecare nursing. Nursing Inquiry. 2014;21(1):79-90. Doi:10.1111/nin.12010 Link

Thorne S, Hislop TG, Kim-Sing C, Oglov V, Oliffe JL, Stajduhar KI. Changing communication needs and preferences across the cancer care trajectory: insights from the patient perspective. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2014;22:1009-15. doi:10.1007/s00520-013-2056-4 Link

Pesut B, Sawatzky R, Stajduhar KI, McLeod B, Erbacker L, Chan EK. Educating nurses for palliative care: a scoping review. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing. 2014;16(1):47-54. Doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000021 Link

Stajduhar KI, Tayler C. Helene Hudson Lecture: Taking an “upstream” approach in the care of dying cancer patients: The case for a palliative approach. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal/Revue canadienne de soins infirmiers en oncologie. 2014;24(3):144-8. doi:10.5737/1181912×241144148 Link

Funk L, Stajduhar K. Analysis and proposed model of family caregivers’ relationships with home health providers and perceptions of the quality of formal services. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 2013;32(2):188-206. Doi: 10.1177/0733464811408699 Link

Stajduhar KI. Burdens of family caregiving at the end of life. Clinical and Investigative Medicine. 2013;121-126. Link

Garland EL, Bruce A, Stajduhar KI. Exposing barriers to end-of-life communication in heart failure: an integrative review. Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing= Journal Canadien en Soins Infirmiers Cardio-vasculaires. 2013;23(1):12-8. Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Outcalt L. Family caregiver learning—how family caregivers learn to provide care at the end of life: a qualitative secondary analysis of four datasets. Palliative medicine. 2013;27(7):657-64. Doi:10.1177/0269216313487765 Link

Funk LM, Waskiewich S, Stajduhar KI. Meaning-making and managing difficult feelings: Providing front-line end-of-life care. OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying. 2014;68(1):23-43. Doi:10.2190/OM.68.1.b Link

2013

Thorne S, Oliffe JL, Stajduhar KI, Oglov V, Kim-Sing C, Hislop TG. Poor communication in cancer care: patient perspectives on what it is and what to do about it. Cancer nursing. 2013;36(6):445-53. Doi:10.1097/NCC.0b013e31827eeda4 Link

Shadd JD, Burge F, Stajduhar KI, Cohen SR, Kelley ML, Pesut B. Defining and measuring a palliative approach in primary care. Canadian Family Physician. 2013;59(11):1149-50. Link

Thorne S, Oliffe JL, Stajduhar KI. Communicating shared decision-making: cancer patient perspectives. Patient Education and Counseling. 2013;90(3):291-6. Doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.02.018 Link

Aoun SM, Bentley B, Funk L, Toye C, Grande G, Stajduhar KI. A 10-year literature review of family caregiving for motor neurone disease: moving from caregiver burden studies to palliative care interventions. Palliative medicine. 2013;27(5):437-46. Doi: 10.1177/0269216312455729 Link

2012

Crooks VA, Williams A, Stajduhar KI, Robin Cohen S, Allan D, Brazil K. Family caregivers’ ideal expectations of Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit. Health & Social Care in the Community. 2012;20(2):172-80. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365- 2524.2011.01028.x Link

Funk LM, Stajduhar KI, Robin Cohen S, Heyland DK, Williams A. Legitimising and rationalising in talk about satisfaction with formal healthcare among bereaved family members. Sociology of health & illness. 2012;34(7):1010-24. Doi:10.1111/j.1467- 9566.2011.01457.x Link

Molzahn A, Sheilds L, Bruce A, Stajduhar KI, Makaroff KS, Beuthin R, Shermak S. People living with serious illness: stories of spirituality. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2012;21(15‐16):2347-56. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04196.x Link

Thorne SE, Stajduhar KI. Patient perceptions of communications on the threshold of cancer survivorship: implications for provider responses. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 2012;6:229-37. Doi: 10.1007/s11764-012-0216-z Link

Molzahn A, Sheilds L, Bruce A, Stajduhar KI, Makaroff KS, Beuthin R, Shermak S. Perceptions regarding death and dying of individuals with chronic kidney disease. Nephrology Nursing Journal. 2012;39(3):197. Link

Katayama Y, McLeod B, Stajduhar KI, Carr M, Cox-Russel S, Thorne S. Providing clinical on-site consultation in home palliative care to support home care nurses: Learning from a Canadian experience. Hospice and Home Care. 2012;20(3), 286-296. [Japanese language journal] Link

Hartrick Doane G, Stajduhar K, Causton E, Bidgood D, Cox A. End-of-life Care and Interprofessional Communication: Not Simply a Matter of” More”. 2012; 1(3). DOI: 10.7772/2159-1253.1028 Link

Waskiewich S, Funk LM, Stajduhar KI. End of life in residential care from the perspective of care aides. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 2012;31(4):411-21. Doi:10.1017/S0714980812000360 Link

2011

Donovan R, Williams A, Stajduhar KI, Brazil K, Marshall D. The influence of culture on home-based family caregiving at end-of-life: A case study of Dutch reformed family care givers in Ontario, Canada. Social Science & Medicine. 2011;72(3):338-46. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.10.010: Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk LM, Roberts D, Cloutier-Fisher D, McLeod B, Wilkinson C, Purkis ME. Articulating the role of relationships in access to home care nursing at the end of life. Qualitative health research. 2011;21(1):117-31. Doi: 10.1177/1049732310379114 Link

Funk LM, Stajduhar KI, Purkis ME. An exploration of empowerment discourse within home‐care nurses’ accounts of practice. Nursing Inquiry. 2011;18(1):66-76. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1800.2010.00502.x Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Roberts D, McLeod B, Cloutier‐Fisher D, Wilkinson C, Purkis ME. Home care nurses’ decisions about the need for and amount of service at the end of life. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2011;67(2):276-86. Doi:10.111/j.1365-2648.2010.05491.x Link

Williams AM, Eby JA, Crooks VA, Stajduhar KI, Giesbrecht M, Vuksan M, Cohen SR, Brazil K, Allan D. Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit: Is it an adequate public health response to addressing the issue of caregiver burden in end-of-life care?. BMC Public Health. 2011;11:1-5. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-335 Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Wolse F, Crooks V, Roberts D, Williams AM, Cloutier-Fisher D, McLeod B. Core aspects of” empowering” caregivers as articulated by leaders in home health care: palliative and chronic illness contexts. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive. 2011;78-95.  Doi: Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Cohen SR, Williams A, Bidgood D, Allan D, Norgrove L, Heyland D. Bereaved family members’ assessments of the quality of end-of-life care: what is important?. Journal of Palliative Care. 2011;27(4):261-9. Link

Stajduhar KI. Chronic illness, palliative Care, and the problematic nature of dying. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive. 2011;7-15. Link

Funk LM, Stajduhar KI, Cloutier-Fisher D. Exploring family caregivers’ rationales for nonuse of formal home health services when caring for a dying family member. Home Health Care Management & Practice. 2011;23(5):318-28. Doi: 10.1177/1084822310384920 Link

Molzahn A, Sheilds L, Bruce A, Stajduhar K, Makaroff KS, Beuthin R, Shermak S. Case study: a model patient or impression management?. Nephrology Nursing Journal. 2011;38(6):511-4. Link

2010

Colin Reid R, Stajduhar KI, Chappell NL. The impact of work interferences on family caregiver outcomes. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 2010 Jun;29(3):267-89. Doi:10.1177/0733464809339591 Link

Thorne S, Oliffe J, Kim‐Sing C, Hislop TG, Stajduhar KI, Harris SR, Armstrong EA, Oglov V. Helpful communications during the diagnostic period: an interpretive description of patient preferences. European journal of cancer care. 2010;19(6):746-54. Doi:10.111/j.1365-2354.2009.01125.x Link

Stajduhar KI, Thorne SE, McGuinness L, Kim‐Sing C. Patient perceptions of helpful communication in the context of advanced cancer. Journal of clinical nursing. 2010;19(13‐14):2039-47. Doi:10.111/j.1365-2702.2009.03158.x Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Jakobsson E, Öhlén J. A critical analysis of health promotion and ‘empowerment’in the context of palliative family care‐giving. Nursing Inquiry. 2010;17(3):221-30. Doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2009.00483.x Link

Stajduhar KI, Martin W, Cairns M. What makes grief difficult? Perspectives from bereaved family caregivers and healthcare providers of advanced cancer patients. Palliative & supportive care. 2010;8(3):277-89. Doi: 10.1017/S1478951510000076 Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Toye C, Grande GE, Aoun S, Todd CJ. Part 1: Home-based family caregiving at the end of life: a comprehensive review of published quantitative research (1998-2008). Palliative medicine. 2010;24(6):573-93. Doi:10.1177/0269216310371412 Link

Funk L, Stajduhar KI, Toye C, Aoun S, Grande GE, Todd CJ. Part 2: Home-based family caregiving at the end of life: a comprehensive review of published qualitative research (1998-2008). Palliative medicine. 2010;24(6):594-607. Doi:10.1177/0269216310371411 Link

Hudson PL, Trauer T, Graham S, Grande G, Ewing G, Payne S, Stajduhar KI, Thomas K. A systematic review of instruments related to family caregivers of palliative care patients. Palliative medicine. 2010;24(7):656-68. Doi:10.1177/0269216310373167 Link

2009

Allan DE, Waskiewich S, Stajduhar KI, Darcee Bidgood RN. Use of palliative care services in a semirural program in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine. 2009;14(1):10. Link

Thorne SE, Hislop TG, Stajduhar KI, Oglov V. Time‐related communication skills from the cancer patient perspective. Psycho‐Oncology: Journal of the Psychological, Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Cancer. 2009;18(5):500-7. Doi: 10.1002/pon.1418 Link

Stajduhar KI, Funk L, Shaw AL, Bottorff JL, Johnson J. Resilience from the perspective of the illicit injection drug user: An exploratory descriptive study. International Journal of Drug Policy. 2009 Jul 1;20(4):309-16. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2008.07.003 Link

Grande G, Stajduhar KI, Aoun S, Toye C, Funk L, Addington-Hall J, Payne S, Todd C. Supporting lay carers in end of life care: current gaps and future priorities. Palliative medicine. 2009;23(4):339-44. Doi:10.1177/0269216309104875 Link

Funk LM, Stajduhar KI. Interviewing family caregivers: Implications of the caregiving context for the research interview. Qualitative Health Research. 2009;19(6):859-67.  Doi:10.1177/1049732309334105 Link

Funk LM, Allan DE, Stajduhar KI. Palliative family caregivers’ accounts of health care experiences: The importance of “security”. Palliative & supportive care. 2009;7(4):435-47. Doi:10.1017/S1478951509990447 Link

Thorne S, Armstrong EA, Harris SR, Hislop TG, Kim-Sing C, Oglov V, Oliffe JL, Stajduhar KI. Patient real-time and 12-month retrospective perceptions of difficult communications in the cancer diagnostic period. Qualitative Health Research. 2009;19(10):1383-94. Doi:10.1177/1049732309348382 Link

2008

Garrett DD, Tuokko H, Stajduhar KI, Lindsay J, Buehler S. Planning for end-of-life care: findings from the Canadian study of health and aging. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 2008;27(1):11-21. Doi:10.3138/cja.27.1.011 Link

Stajduhar KI, Allan DE, Cohen SR, Heyland DK. Preferences for location of death of seriously ill hospitalized patients: perspectives from Canadian patients and their family caregivers. Palliative Medicine. 2008;22(1):85-8. Doi:10.1177/0269216307084612 Link

Stajduhar KI, Nickel DD, Martin WL, Funk L. Situated/being situated: client and co-worker roles of family caregivers in hospice palliative care. Social science & medicine. 2008;67(11):1789-97. Doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.012 Link

Bruce A, Stajduhar KI, Molzahn A, MacDonald M, Starzomski R, Brown M. Nursing graduate supervision of theses and projects at a distance: Issues and challenges. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 2008;5(1). Doi:10.2202/1548-923X.1587 Link

Stajduhar KI, Martin WL, Barwich D, Fyles G. Factors influencing family caregivers’ ability to cope with providing end-of-life cancer care at home. Cancer nursing. 2008;31(1):77-85. Doi:10.1097/01.NCC.0000305686.36637.b5 Link

2007

Martin W, Grey M, Webber T, Robinson L, Hartt N, Cairns M, Stajduhar KI. Balancing dual roles in end-of-life research. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal/Revue canadienne de soins infirmiers en oncologie. 2007;17(3):141-3. Doi:10.5737/1181912×173141143 Link

Crooks VA, Williams A, Stajduhar KI, Allan DE, Cohen RS. The information transfer and knowledge acquisition geographies of family caregivers: An analysis of Canada’s compassionate care benefit. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive. 2007:36-55. Link

2006

Stajduhar KI, Bidgood D, Norgrove L, Allan D, Waskiewich S. Using quality improvement to enhance research readiness in palliative care. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 2006;28(4):22-8. Doi:10.1111/j.1945-1474.2006.tb00617.x Link

Williams A, Crooks VA, Stajduhar KI, Allan D, Cohen SR. Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit: Views of family caregivers in chronic illness. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 2006;12(9):438-45. doi:10.12968/ijpn.2006.12.9.21872 Link

2005

Stajduhar KI, Davies B. Variations in and factors influencing family members’ decisions for palliative home care. Palliative medicine. 2005;19(1):21-32. Doi:10.1191/0269216305pm963oa Link

Allan DE, Stajduhar KI, Reid RC. The uses of provincial administrative health databases for research on palliative care: Insights from British Columbia, Canada. BMC palliative care. 2005;4:1-9. Doi:10.1186/1472-684x-4-2 Link

2004

Stajduhar KI, Poffenroth L, Wong E, Archibald CP, Sutherland D, Rekart M. Missed opportunities: Injection drug use and HIV/AIDS in Victoria, Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy. 2004;15(3):171-81. Doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2004.01.001 Link

Stajduhar KI. Examining the perspectives of family members involved in the delivery of palliative care at home. Journal of palliative care. 2003;19(1):27-35. Doi: 10.1177/08258597030190010 Link

Stajduhar KI, Lindsey E, McGuinness L. A qualitative evaluation of an HIV/AIDS respite care service in Victoria, Canada. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 2002;25(3):321-44. Doi: 10.1177/01632787020250030 Link

Stajduhar KI, Bidgood D, Meagher C, Morris V, Shaw AL, Showler C, Short SJ. Effective partnerships. Bringing nursing research alive in the practice setting. The Canadian nurse. 2002;98(10):14-8. Link

Stajdubar KI. Patients, family members and providers identified 6 components of a “good death”. Evidence-based nursing. 2001;4:32. 

Lindsey E, Stajduhar KI, McGuinness L. Examining the process of community development. Journal of advanced nursing. 2001;33(6):828-35. Doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01722.x Link

Stajduhar KI, Balneaves L, Thorne SE. A case for the ‘middle ground’: exploring the tensions of postmodern thought in nursing. Nursing Philosophy. 2001;2(1):72-82. Doi:10.1046/j.1466-769x.2001.00033.x Link

Stajduhar KI, Neithercut J, Chu E, Pham P, Rohde J, Sicotte A, Young K. Thyroid cancer: patients’ experiences of receiving iodine-131 therapy. InOncology Nursing Forum 2000; 27(8):1213-1218. Link

Lindsey E, Sheilds L, Stajduhar K. Creating effective nursing partnerships: relating community development to participatory action research. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 1999;29(5):1238-45. Link

Stajduhar KI, Lindsey E. Home away from home: essential elements in developing housing options for people living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 1999;13(8):481-91. Link

Lindsey E, Stajduhar K. From rhetoric to action: Establishing community participation in AIDS-related research. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive. 1998:137-52. Link

Stajduhar KI, Davies B. Palliative care at home: reflections on HIV/AIDS family caregiving experiences. Journal of Palliative Care. 1998;14(2):14-22. Doi: 10.1177/082585979801400203 Link

Stajduhar KI, Davies B. Death at home: challenges for families and directions for the future. Journal of palliative care. 1998 Sep;14(3):8-14. Doi: 10.1177/082585979801400304 Link

Stajduhar KI. Loss and bereavement: HIV/AIDS family caregiving experiences. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive. 1997:73-86. Link