Background: Early integration of palliative care into the management of patients with serious
disease has the potential to both improve quality of life of patients and families and reduce …

Background Despite the positive impact of Palliative Care (PC) on the quality of life for
patients and their relatives, the implementation of PC in non-cancer health-care delivery in …

Abstract Background Integrated Palliative Care (PC) strategies are often implemented
following models, namely standardized designs that provide frameworks for the organization …

Context Near the end of life when patients experience refractory symptoms, palliative
sedation may be considered as a last treatment. Clinical guidelines have been developed …

Background: Patients with advanced diseases often experience deficient continuity of care.
Although integrated palliative care promotes continuity of care, it is not clear how it can be …

Background Teleconsultation seems to be a promising intervention for providing palliative
care to home-dwelling patients; however, its effect on clinically relevant outcome measures …

Objective The problems and needs of advanced cancer patients and proxies normally
increase as the disease progresses. Home-based advanced cancer patients and their …

Background: Palliative care (PC) development is diverse and lacks an effective integration
into European healthcare systems. This article investigates levels of integrated PC in …

Background: Funding models influence provision and development of palliative care
services. As palliative care integrates into mainstream health care provision, opportunities to …

Background According to EU policy, anyone in need of palliative care should be able to
have access to it. It is therefore important to investigate which palliative care topics are …