Palliative care, a rapidly growing medical specialty, uses a team approach to enhance
quality of care for persons with serious illness. This review summarizes recent trends and …

Progressive fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are characterised by major reductions in
quality of life and survival and have similarities to certain malignancies. However, palliative …

Background: Early palliative care is increasingly recommended but seldom practised. We
sought to examine perceptions of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer and …

Purpose Commonly used terms such as “supportive care,”“best supportive care,”“palliative
care,” and “hospice care” were rarely and inconsistently defined in the palliative oncology …

Background Although similar to cancer patients regarding symptom burden and prognosis,
patients with heart failure (HF) tend to receive palliative care far less frequently. We sought …

Background: Primary care has the potential to play significant roles in providing effective
palliative care for non-cancer patients. Aim: To identify, critically appraise and synthesise the …

Definition of supportive care: does the semantic matter? : Current Opinion in Oncology
Definition of supportive care: does the semantic matter? : Current Opinion in Oncology Log in or …

There is a lack of evidence on how best to meet policy guidance in fulfilling the information
needs of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and their families. We aimed to generate …

More than half of all UK deaths occur in hospital, yet evidence suggests that the quality of
inpatient end of life care is suboptimal at best. Over half of all NHS complaints pertain to …

Objective: To identify barrier to achieving universal access to high quality palliative care in
Canada, review published national strategies and frameworks to promote palliative care …