Objectives: Palliative care research is relatively diverse and prioritizing research in this field
is dependent on multiple factors such as complex ethical decisions in designing and …

Objective Identifying research priorities is very important for palliative and end-of-life care to
ensure research is focused on evidence gaps. This project aimed to identify and prioritise …

INTRODUCTION: The vision for palliative care service provision in New Zealand is for all
people who are dying and their families to have timely access to culturally appropriate …

Objective: The difficulties in conducting palliative care research have been widely
acknowledged. In order to generate the evidence needed to underpin palliative care …

This article presents how practice issues within a hospice were identified as a means of
prioritizing areas for research and development. The Delphi technique was employed to …

The Delphi process, widely used in health research to seek consensus on key issues
amongst large stakeholder groups, was adopted to allow families, hospice staff/volunteers …

Objective: To study the efficacy of two modules within the Fundamentals of Palliative Care
educational program within a single site. The modules included the concepts of Essence of …

Introduction There can be a mismatch between what the public see as important
unanswered questions and those which are actually researched. The Palliative and end of …

Palliative care research is essential for evidence-based models of care that improve terminal
illness outcomes. 1 Investment in hospice research is essential for the projected increases in …

When groups of palliative care researchers gather together in the refreshment breaks of
major congresses, they are often heard to be complaining bitterly about the challenges of …