Background: There is increasing demand for primary care practitioners to play a key role in
palliative care delivery. Given this, it is important to understand their perceptions of the …

Despite significant advances in understanding the benefits of early integration of palliative
care with disease management, many people living with a chronic life-threatening illness …

Background: Substantial agreement has been achieved on research priorities in palliative
care over the past 15 years, as evidenced by consensus conferences and systematic …

Background Palliative care is recognised as a public health issue with the need for earlier
integration in the wider healthcare system. However, research indicates that it continues to …

Objectives: Palliative care specialists are faced with extensive barriers to providing effective
palliative care. We carried out a survey to identify existing barriers from the point of view of …

Background: The lack of a clear definition of the palliative care patient hampers the
comparison of results across different studies and impedes implementation of research …

Aims and objectives To explore how nurses, across various health systems, describe their
role in providing palliative care for patients with life‐threatening illnesses. Background …

Background: Research suggests that the public appear to be confused about the meaning of
palliative care. Given the ageing population and associated increase in the number of …

Objectives: To determine the problems and issues of accessing specialist palliative care by
patients, informal carers and health and social care professionals involved in their care in …

Background: A wide range of organisational models of palliative care exist. However,
decision makers need more information about which models are likely to be most effective in …