Palliative Care Patients and End of Life

Often there's a question about a particular disease or therapy and it ends with the phrase "in palliative care patients"

PubMed:

"Palliative Care"[Mesh] OR "Terminal Care"[Mesh] OR "Terminally Ill"[Mesh] OR "end of life"[tiab] OR palliati*[tiab] OR hospice[tiab]

You can also OR the following:
terminal*[tiab] NOT ("n terminal"[tiab] OR "c terminal"[tiab] OR "amino terminal"[tiab] OR "carboxy terminal"[tiab] OR "carboxyl terminal"[tiab] OR "cooh terminal"[tiab])


N-terminal and C-terminal are something completely different, and if you leave them in, you'll get zillions of irrelevant results.

EMBASE:

exp palliative therapy/ OR exp terminal care/ OR exp terminally ill patient/ OR exp hospice patient/ OR exp hospice/ OR ("end of life" OR palliati* OR hospice).ti,ab.
OR
terminal*.ti,ab. NOT (n terminal OR c terminal OR amino terminal OR carboxy* terminal OR cooh terminal).ti,ab.

CINAHL:

MH "Terminal Care+" OR MH "Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing" OR MH "Terminally Ill Patients+" OR MH "Hospice Patients" OR MH "Hospices" OR palliati* OR hospice OR "end of life" OR (terminal* NOT ("n terminal" OR "c terminal" OR "amino terminal" OR carboxy* terminal OR "cooh terminal")

A keyword search for "end stage" may or may not be useful depending on your question.

Recurrence

Recurrence is a Mesh, but you'll get more results if you search for keywords as well.

"Recurrence"[Mesh] OR recurren*[tiab] OR intractabl*[tiab] OR refractor*[tiab] OR persisten*[tiab] OR relaps*[tiab] OR incessan*[tiab] OR reinfection*[tiab]

EMBASE has exp recurrent disease/

These can also be useful:
recurren*[title] OR repetiti*[title] OR frequen*[title] OR cumulati*[title] OR repeat*[title] OR second*[title] OR multiple*[title] OR accumulat*[title] OR additive[title] OR additional[title] OR subsequent[title]