… patients themselves in order to determine the appropriateness of research in the palliative
care … This systematic review aims to identify the views of palliative care patients and their …

… : Including relatives as users and part of the palliative care team … due to the lack of organized
services for palliative care. … of the relatives taking care of patients in need of palliative care. …

… than were patients. CONCLUSIONS--Palliative care needs to include both the patient
and family because the needs of the family may exceed those of the patient. Support teams …

… In consultation with palliative care experts, we developed the following definition of … palliative
care: Effective communication in palliative care is a dialogical process between the patient …

… sense of coherence on the part of relatives, an appropriate illness trajectory, and … palliative
care is that the manner in which the staff act toward the patient and relatives influence relatives…

… Even in situations where treatment was in palliative care, relatives and patients worked
hard to create a ‘curative aura’ making difficult the physician's wish for straightforward …

… providers were conducted to gather extra data about quality aspects of palliative care that
are important for patients and relatives. In addition, three individual interviews with …

… patients receive care from one close relative only, while nearly half are cared for by two or
three relatives… A smaller proportion of non-cancer patients than cancer patients have access to …

… the elements that patients with advanced cancer and relatives consider essential for high-quality
palliative care, and whether these essentials are present in the actual care they receive. …

… staff or carers from the home care services. In addition, we expect that relatives of people
who die in specialised palliative care institutions (a hospice or palliative care unit) will have …