Background: The concept of advance care planning is largely derived from Western
countries. However, the decision-making process and drivers for choosing palliative care in …

Background Instruments specific to palliative care tend to measure care quality from relative
perspectives or have insufficient theoretical foundation. The instrument Quality from the …

A fundamental principle of palliative care is the provision of patient-centred care, an
approach explicitly based on the patient's perspective. Although much attention has been …

Background: Research exploring patient experience of palliative care in the hospital setting
has previously been limited to negative aspects of care. However, recent studies have …

Purpose: Existing recommendations for communicating with patients with metastatic cancer
about redefining goals of care when anticancer treatment is unlikely to provide benefit are …

A basic tenet of palliative care is discerning patient treatment preferences and then honoring
these preferences, reflected by the inclusion of “Care Consistency With Documented Care …

Background Early start of palliative care improves the quality of life of eligible patients and
their relatives. However, in hospital, patients who could benefit from palliative care are often …

Background Patients' perceptions of care quality within and across settings are important for
the further development of palliative care. The aim was to investigate patients' perceptions of …

This review addresses some of the methodological, theoretical and technical issues related
to using satisfaction as an outcome measure of the quality of palliative care. The …

Background: end-of-life decision making is an important aspect of end-of-life care that can
have a significant impact on the process of dying and patients' comfort in the last days of life …