Background: Palliative care has emerged as care that specifically aims to address gaps
inherent in disease-centered approaches in order to enhance care quality in serious illness …

Background: There is good evidence for the efficacy of inpatient palliative care in improving
clinical care, patient and provider satisfaction, quality of life, and health care utilization …

Context: Despite the widespread recognition of the need for new models of care to better
serve patients at the end-of-life, little evidence exists documenting the effectiveness of these …

Background: Studies suggest that outpatient palliative care can reduce hospitalization and
increase hospice utilization for patients with cancer, however there are insufficient resources …

Several recently published randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the benefits of
early palliative care involvement for patients with advanced cancer. In the oncology …

This study set out to systematically review the research evidence about the impact of
alternative models of specialist palliative care on the quality of life of patients. Eighty-six …

Background Evidence from randomized controlled trials has demonstrated benefits in quality
of life outcomes from early palliative care concurrent with standard oncology care in patients …

The authors concluded that available evidence confirmed palliative care services were
associated with improvements in patients' quality of life, family caregiver outcomes, patient …

Context Specialized palliative care teams are increasingly providing care for the terminally
ill. However, the impact of such teams on quality of life, satisfaction with care, and economic …

Methods: The question for the literature search was–Does integration of early specialist
palliative care in cancer care influences patient-related outcomes? 31 articles related to …