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 …

Objectives To examine access to palliative care between different disease trajectories and
compare to other geographic areas. Design A retrospective population-based decedent …

Background: Little population-level information exists about the delivery of palliative care
across multiple health sectors, important in providing a complete picture of current care and …

Importance Palliative care improves health outcomes, but studies of the differences in the
delivery of palliative care to patients with different types of serious illness are lacking …

Background and purpose: Introducing palliative care earlier in the disease trajectory has
been found to provide better management of physical and psychological suffering. In …

Background The UK National Health Service is striving to improve access to palliative care
for patients with advanced cancer however limited information exists on the level of palliative …

Objective For patients with advanced cancer, several randomised controlled trials have
shown that access to palliative care at least 6 months before death can improve symptoms …

Objectives: To describe the characteristics of Western Australian (WA) people who received,
and did not receive, specialist palliative care (SPC) during their last 12 months of life …

Objectives While guidelines recommend palliative care in non-cancer conditions, this has
not been widely implemented. We examined whether the recording of a palliative care …

Background: Multiple studies demonstrate substantial utilization of acute hospital care and,
potentially excessive, intensive medical and surgical treatments at the end-of-life. Aim: To …