作者
Lieve Van den Block, Tinne Smets, Nanja van Dop, Eddy Adang, Paula Andreasen, Danni Collingridge Moore, Yvonne Engels, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Katherine Froggatt, Giovanni Gambassi, Violetta Kijowska, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, H Roeline Pasman, Sheila Payne, Ruth Piers, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Maud Ten Koppel, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Jenny T van der Steen, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Luc Deliens, Zeger De Groote, Federica Mammarella, Martina Mercuri, Mariska Oosterveld-Vlug, Agnieszka Pac, Lara Pivodic, Paola Rossi, Ivan Segat, Eleanor Sowerby, Agata Stodolska, Hein van Hout, Anne Wichmann, European Forum For Primary Care
发表日期
2016/6/1
期刊
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
卷号
17
期号
6
页码范围
566. e1-566. e7
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Objectives
Although a growing number of older people are dying in care homes, palliative care has developed in these settings only recently. Cross-country representative comparative research hardly exists in this area. As part of a large EU-funded project, we aim to undertake representative comparative research in care homes in Europe, to describe and compare 6 countries in terms of (1) resident outcomes, quality and costs of palliative and end-of-life care; and (2) palliative care structures and staff knowledge and attitudes toward palliative care. We also aim to explore country, facility, staff, patient, and care characteristics related to better outcomes at resident level.
Design and Methods
To obtain a representative nationwide sample, we will conduct a large-scale cross-sectional study of deceased residents in care homes in Belgium, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom, using proportional …
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