Background With increasing numbers of people living with complex life-limiting
multimorbidity in the community, consideration must be given to improving the organisation …

Background Coping with end-of-life issues is a major challenge for governments and health
systems. Despite progress in legislation, many barriers exist to its full implementation. This …

Objectives To assess possible trends between 2009 and 2019 in the Netherlands of
palliative care indicators: the provision of palliative care or treatment, hospitalisations in the …

Treating patients who are approaching the end of their life is a complex and sensitive matter.
The GMC guidance Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision …

Though these issues have been discussed extensively in intensive care fora for many years,
the ISCCM felt that there was a need to obtain some kind of professional consensus prior to …

End-of-life decision-making is an area of medical practice in which ethical dilemmas and
legal interventions have become increasingly prevalent. Decisions are no longer confined to …

Recognition of the importance of end-of-life care will enable improvements in the quality of
care delivered to patients and their families. Australia is experiencing an increasing number …

This narrative literature review aimed to identify the current speech-language pathology
(SLP) service profile and service level factors influencing SLP service delivery in Australian …

This research investigates how physicians understand, practice and experience end-of-life
care in the context of Australian palliative and critical and acute settings. Particular attention …

This is the final article in a series of three that examines the legal role of medical
professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from adults who …