… ’ and commissioners’ understanding of specialist palliative care within the context of … health
and social care services about their understanding of specialist palliative care services and, …

… time, established consensus on the difference and intersections between specialist and
non-… varied exposure to and understanding of specialist palliative care. Participants were not …

… palliative care services than conventional services, but fall short of providing an explanation
… in mind, we decided to compare three evaluation studies of palliative care services. All had …

… used the principles of constant comparison,17 with two … specialists in palliative care,
and data from the specialists’ discussion were used to compare and contrast with the non-specialist …

… without specialist palliative care skills … different understanding of concepts related to palliative
care also reflected in the results of this study. For example, the definition of supportive care …

… This research aims to explore how professionals in three different settings understand … “I
think you could have somebody who’s referred to specialist palliative care with what seems like …

… Dr F: Now, we all like to think we're special and different. I mean, there's a couple of us that
… , which underpinned participants’ understanding of palliative care and their referral behaviour…

… paves the way for an improved understanding and benchmarking of services internationally.
… approach to the understanding and comparison of models of palliative care and can hence …

… The fourth explanation is that our results also show that respondents with the same … We
showed considerable differences between generalists versus specialists/experts regarding …

… Our focus in this study was on a specialist palliative care unit … care. The majority of Australian
referrals are made by medical … specialists’ understandings of broader cultural differences …