Background: Early integration of palliative care into the management of patients with serious
disease has the potential to both improve quality of life of patients and families and reduce …

Inequality of access to palliative care and symptom relief is one of the greatest disparities in
global health care (1). Currently, there is avoidable suffering on a massive scale due to lack …

Background: the right for patients of all diagnoses to be in receipt of palliative care from an
early point in the diagnosis of a life-limiting condition is now enshrined in policy in a number …

Background Historically, specialist palliative care has been accessed by a greater
proportion of people dying with cancer compared to people with other life-limiting conditions …

Palliative care focuses on relieving suffering and achieving the best possible quality of life
for patients and their family caregivers. It involves the assessment and treatment of …

Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for
people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional …

Dear Editor: As readers of JPM know, the field of palliative care has evolved and expanded
rapidly over the past few decades. Yet still, most patients, families and, indeed, many …

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: If global palliative care is to successfully address challenges of unequal
access, continuity of care, and health services reductionism, new practice models to address …

Palliative care is of growing public health importance. Most deaths in developed countries
occur in people aged over 65, but relatively little health policy is directed at their needs in the …