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Tatsuya Morita is affiliated with Seirei Mikatabara General Hospital in Japan. Their research work primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and General Health Professions.

The main research topics covered by Tatsuya Morita include:

  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

Tatsuya Morita has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
  • Supportive Care in Cancer
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Palliative Medicine
  • Palliative Medicine Reports

Notable recent papers authored include:

  • Effects of enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition on survival in patients with advanced cancer cachexia: Analysis of a multicenter prospective cohort study (2020, Clinical Nutrition)
  • Communication and Behavior of Palliative Care Physicians of Patients With Cancer Near End of Life in Three East Asian Countries (2020, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
  • Culturally Adapted Consensus Definition and Action Guideline: Japan's Advance Care Planning (2022, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
  • Palliative Care for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients: Pulmonary Physicians' View (2020, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
  • Prognostic evaluation in patients with advanced cancer in the last months of life: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline (2023, ESMO Open)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tatsuya Morita include:

  • Masanori Mori
  • Mitsunori Miyashita
  • Satoru Tsuneto
  • Yoshiyuki Kizawa
  • Isseki Maeda

Best Publications

  • Good death in cancer care: a nationwide quantitative study

    M Miyashita;M Sanjo;T Morita;K Hirai

  • Good Death Inventory: A Measure for Evaluating Good Death from the Bereaved Family Member's Perspective

    Mitsunori Miyashita;Tatsuya Morita;Kazuki Sato;Kei Hirai

  • Late Referrals to Specialized Palliative Care Service in Japan

    Tatsuya Morita;Tatsuo Akechi;Masayuki Ikenaga;Yoshiyuki Kizawa

  • Effects of High Dose Opioids and Sedatives on Survival in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

    Tatsuya Morita;Junichi Tsunoda;Satoshi Inoue;Satoshi Chihara

  • Psychotherapy for depression among incurable cancer patients

    Tatsuo Akechi;Toru Okuyama;Joji Onishi;Tatsuya Morita

  • Underlying pathologies and their associations with clinical features in terminal delirium of cancer patients.

    Tatsuya Morita;You Tei;Junichi Tsunoda;Satoshi Inoue

  • Good death in Japanese cancer care: a qualitative study.

    Kei Hirai;Mitsunori Miyashita;Tatsuya Morita;Makiko Sanjo

  • Efficacy of Short-Term Life-Review Interviews on the Spiritual Well-Being of Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

    Michiyo Ando;Tatsuya Morita;Tatsuo Akechi;Takuya Okamoto

  • Ethical validity of palliative sedation therapy: a multicenter, prospective, observational study conducted on specialized palliative care units in Japan.

    Tatsuya Morita;Yoshikazu Chinone;Masayuki Ikenaga;Makoto Miyoshi

  • Burnout and psychiatric morbidity among physicians engaged in end-of-life care for cancer patients: a cross-sectional nationwide survey in Japan.

    Mariko Asai;Tatsuya Morita;Tatsuo Akechi;Yuriko Sugawara

  • Communication about the ending of anticancer treatment and transition to palliative care

    T. Morita;T. Akechi;M. Ikenaga;Y. Kizawa

  • Development of a Clinical Guideline for Palliative Sedation Therapy Using the Delphi Method

    Tatsuya Morita;Seiji Bito;Yukie Kurihara;Yosuke Uchitomi

  • Preferences of cancer patients regarding the disclosure of bad news

    Maiko Fujimori;Tatsuo Akechi;Tatsuya Morita;Masatoshi Inagaki

  • Definition of sedation for symptom relief: a systematic literature review and a proposal of operational criteria.

    Tatsuya Morita;Satoru Tsuneto;Yasuo Shima

  • The palliative care knowledge test: reliability and validity of an instrument to measure palliative care knowledge among health professionals:

    Y. Nakazawa;M. Miyashita;T. Morita;M. Umeda

  • Place of Death and the Differences in Patient Quality of Death and Dying and Caregiver Burden

    Hiroya Kinoshita;Isseki Maeda;Tatsuya Morita;Mitsunori Miyashita

  • Family-perceived distress from delirium-related symptoms of terminally ill cancer patients

    Tatsuya Morita;Kei Hirai;Yukihiro Sakaguchi;Satoru Tsuneto

  • Validity of the palliative performance scale from a survival perspective.

    T Morita;J Tsunoda;S Inoue;S Chihara

  • Contributing factors to physical symptoms in terminally-ill cancer patients.

    Tatsuya Morita;Junichi Tsunoda;Satoshi Inoue;Satoshi Chihara

  • Measuring the quality of structure and process in end-of-life care from the bereaved family perspective

    Tatsuya Morita;Kei Hirai;Yukihiro Sakaguchi;Etsuko Maeyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatsuo Akechi
Tatsuo Akechi Nagoya City University
Yosuke Uchitomi
Yosuke Uchitomi National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Eduardo Bruera
Eduardo Bruera The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Takuji Okusaka
Takuji Okusaka National Cancer Centre
David C. Currow
David C. Currow Flinders University
Chikashi Ishioka
Chikashi Ishioka Tohoku University
Toshi A. Furukawa
Toshi A. Furukawa Kyoto University
Yutaka Matsuoka
Yutaka Matsuoka Hiroshima University
Hitoshi Okamura
Hitoshi Okamura Hiroshima University
Irene J Higginson
Irene J Higginson King's College London

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