Background: Particularly at the end of life, treatment decisions should be shared and
incorporate patients' preferences. This study examines elaboration and preference …

Background It can be difficult to identify when a palliative care approach should be started
both in malignant, and particularly, in non-malignant disease, ideally to run alongside …

Objectives: The dual aim of this study is, first, to describe preferred place of care (PPOC) and
preferred place of death (PPOD) in terminally ill patients with lung and heart diseases …

Palliative day care (PDC) provides individualized care to meet patients' needs and
preferences and has posed problems for economic evaluation. Current methods are limited …

Background: It is often suggested that terminally ill patients favour end-of-life care at home.
Yet, it is unclear how these preferences are formed, if the process is similar for patients and …

Background: There is increasing demand for primary care practitioners to play a key role in
palliative care delivery. Given this, it is important to understand their perceptions of the …

Congruence between preferred and actual place of death is an important palliative care
outcome reported in the literature. We examined methods of measuring and reporting …

Background: Understanding the need for palliative care is essential in planning services.
Aim: To refine existing methods of estimating population-based need for palliative care and …

Background The number of palliative care patients with complex needs is increasing in
developed countries. In addition to physical aspects and symptom control, psychosocial …

Background: Shared decision making (SDM) is a key attribute of patient-centered care,
which empowers palliative care patients to be able to make optimal medical decisions about …