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Palliative Care Nursing Lab
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A nursing lab working on evaluating the quality of palliative care and applying artificial intelligence.

AboutAbout the lab
"Research that can be applied in the field," in palliative care nursing.
The Palliative Care Nursing Lab studies the palliative care needed in cancer nursing and in end-of-life care for patients with illnesses other than cancer.
Established in Sendai, one of the regions in Japan most advanced in palliative care, the lab conducts education and research under the concept of "research that can be applied in the field."
Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates hold lab seminars and study sessions, aiming to develop people with broad specialized knowledge and strong research ability.
Graduate students who aim to qualify as Certified Nurse Specialists in Cancer Nursing complete the required credits in lectures and practicum.
Key terms
- Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing
- A Certified Nurse Specialist qualification awarded in the field of cancer nursing
- Patient-reported outcomes
- Results on symptoms and living conditions reported by the patients themselves
- Natural language processing
- Technology for processing human language with computers
NewsLab news
Papers with Prof. Miyashita and Lecturer Masukawa as first authors, among others, have been published
A study on automatic extraction of pain descriptions has been published in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
At the annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine, presentations from the lab won the Best Presentation Award and Excellent Presentation Awards
ResearchResearch themes
The Palliative Care Nursing Lab works as a whole on projects such as developing systems to evaluate, maintain, and improve the quality of specialized palliative care. It also covers patient-reported outcomes and the use of natural language processing and artificial intelligence, and graduate students can either pursue their own themes or join projects that match their interests.
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The Palliative Care Nursing Lab's members consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and lab staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorMitsunori Miyashita
- LecturerKento Masukawa
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