The timing of the introduction of palliative care has been identified as an area in need of
research. This study examines the meaning of palliative care, the process and timing of …

Title. Assessing palliative care needs: views of patients, informal carers and healthcare
professionals Aim. This paper reports a study to assess the palliative care needs of the adult …

Introduction: The development of palliative care across the World is varied and often limited.
The purpose of this comparative study was to explore healthcare professionals'(doctors …

Palliative care is a concept of care with philosophical basis comprising people who work in
the field. It exists in relation to a system that stands more or less ready to receive it. The …

The care of patients whose illnesses cannot be cured places many stresses on health
professionals (both generalist and specialist), and more importantly on patients and families …

Background: With growing expense in chronic illness and end-of-life (EOL) care, population-
based interventions are needed to reduce the health care cost and improve patients' quality …

Background: The public's view of palliative care often involves its potential to improve of
quality-of-life as well as its use as a last resource prior to death. Objective: To obtain an idea …

The specialty of palliative care has developed rapidly in the last two decades, as evidenced
by the growth of specialist services, tertiary education programmes and recognition of …

With increasing requests for palliative care provision for all patients regardless of diagnosis,
professionals within specialist palliative care services and palliative care nurse specialists …

Purpose This study was carried out descriptively to determine the view and applications
about pallative care of nurses working in a university hospital. Design and Methods The data …