What is the methodological rigour of palliative care research in long-term care facilities in Europe? A systematic review

G Albers, R Harding, HRW Pasman… - Palliative …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The European population is rapidly ageing, resulting in increasing numbers of
older people dying in long-term care facilities. There is an urgent need for palliative care in …

Palliative care provision in long-term care facilities differs across Europe: results of a cross-sectional study in six European countries (PACE)

M Ten Koppel, BD Onwuteaka-Philipsen… - Palliative …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is
unknown whether palliative care in this setting is sufficiently developed. Aim: To describe …

A comparison of palliative care outcome measures used to assess the quality of palliative care provided in long-term care facilities: a systematic review

D Parker, B Hodgkinson - Palliative Medicine, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Provision of palliative care in long-term care (LTC) facilities is important, but limited research
has been undertaken to investigate the most appropriate outcome measure for use in this …

Palliative care research–a systematic review of foci, designs and methods of research conducted in Sweden between 2007 and 2012

I Henoch, I Carlander, M Holm, I James… - … journal of caring …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background In 2007, a literature review was undertaken of palliative care research from
Sweden during the 1970s–2006, paving the way for a follow‐up study to explore the recent …

Palliative care in Germany from a public health perspective: qualitative expert interviews

M Behmann, SL Lückmann, N Schneider - BMC Research Notes, 2009 - Springer
Background Improving palliative care is a public health priority. However, little is known
about the views of public health experts regarding the state of palliative care in Germany …

Integrating palliative care in long-term care facilities across Europe (PACE): protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial of the 'PACE Steps to Success' …

T Smets, BBD Onwuteaka-Philipsen, R Miranda… - BMC palliative …, 2018 - Springer
Background Several studies have highlighted the need for improvement in palliative care
delivered to older people long-term care facilities. However, the available evidence on how …

Palliative care research: has it come of age?

C Walshe - Palliative medicine, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Why is research in palliative care so difficult, after all it is not rocket science, is it? Yet the
palliative care literature is replete with reports explaining the challenges of conducting …

'Best practice'in developing and evaluating palliative and end-of-life care services: a meta-synthesis of research methods for the MORECare project

CJ Evans, R Harding, IJ Higginson… - Palliative …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Improved and cost-effective palliative and end-of-life care is an international
policy imperative. Developments are impeded by a weak and often inconsistent evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing palliative care in care homes across Europe (PACE): protocol of a cross-sectional study of deceased residents in 6 EU countries

L Van den Block, T Smets, N van Dop, E Adang… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives Although a growing number of older people are dying in care homes, palliative
care has developed in these settings only recently. Cross-country representative …

A comparison of palliative care outcome measures used to assess the quality of palliative care provided in residential aged care facilities: a systematic review

D Parker, B Hodgkinson - JBI Evidence Synthesis, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background Provision of palliative care in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) is
important but limited research has been undertaken to investigate the most appropriate …