Background: To enable coordinated palliative care delivery, all clinicians should have basic
palliative care skill sets ('generalist palliative care'). Specialists should have skills for …

Background: Little population-level information exists about the delivery of palliative care
across multiple health sectors, important in providing a complete picture of current care and …

Patients with serious illnesses are living longer and with greater disabilities. Palliative‐care
interventions have been shown to increase quality of life, lower costs, and improve survival …

Purpose: The need for all providers to deliver basic palliative care has emerged as patients'
needs outstrip the capacity of specialty palliative care. Many patients with complex illnesses …

Background Growing attention to end-of-life care has led to intensive efforts to provide better
palliative care. However, it is not known whether palliative care is best provided by …

Generalist plus Specialist Palliative Care — Creating a More Sustainable Model | New England
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Importance Palliative care improves health outcomes, but studies of the differences in the
delivery of palliative care to patients with different types of serious illness are lacking …

Palliative care offers patients with a serious illness and their families access to services that
can improve quality of life, mood, and symptoms. However, the term palliative care is often …

Objective This study aimed to achieve consensus regarding what distinguishes specialist
from non-specialist palliative care to inform service organisation and delivery to patients with …

Background: Little is currently known about physicians':(1) level of involvement in and
comfort delivering palliative care in the inpatient setting,(2) perceived barriers to referring …