Background: Lack of consistency in palliative care language can serve as barriers when
designing, delivering, and accessing high-quality palliative care services. Objective: To …

Introduction Palliative care is critically important for the world's aging population and can
change illness trajectories and promote advances in health care technologies. As health …

Objectives To (1) provide an overview of palliative care assessment tools designed to be
completed by or with patients or caregivers, including which tools have been applied to …

Background: In 2009, the EAPC published recommendations on standards and norms for
palliative care in Europe, and a decade later, wished to update them to reflect contemporary …

Background Much of what we understand about the design of healthcare systems to support
care of the dying comes from our experiences with providing palliative care for dying cancer …

Background: Frameworks are the conceptual underpinnings of the study. Both conceptual
and theoretical frameworks are often used in palliative and end-of-life care studies to help …

Background: National Consensus Project for quality palliative care guidelines emphasizes
the importance of a comprehensive assessment of all care domains, including physical …

CONTEXT: Throughout Europe, there are major differences in the stages of development
and in the types of service delivery of palliative care. Consensus on standards and norms for …

Background: Palliative care demands in the United States are growing amid a comparatively
small workforce of palliative care clinicians and researchers. Therefore, determining …

Background: Growing global demand for palliative care services has prompted generalist
clinicians to provide adjunct support to specialist teams. Paramedics are uniquely placed to …