This analysis of the United States health system reviews the developmentsin organization
and governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system …

Background: Outcome measurement plays an increasing role in improving the quality,
effectiveness, efficiency and availability of palliative care. Aim: To provide expert …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Planning and
implementing palliative care services: a guide for programme managers. 1. Palliative care …

Importance Care of patients with malignant bowel obstruction caused by peritoneal
metastases may present an ethical dilemma for surgeons when nonoperative management …

Context In 2007, a systematic review revealed a number of quality indicators referring mostly
to palliative care outcomes and processes. Psychosocial and spiritual aspects were scarcely …

Background Dying at home and dying at the preferred place of death are advocated to be
desirable outcomes of palliative care. More insight is needed in their usefulness as quality …

Background: There has been an increase in observational studies using health
administrative data to examine the nature, quality, and costs of care at life's end, particularly …

Objectives: To describe hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life by
people for whom death from cancer or one of another nine conditions was an expected …

Purpose Every health care sector including hospice/palliative care needs to systematically
improve services using patient-defined outcomes. Data from the national Australian …

Background: A substantial amount of aggressive life-prolonging treatments in the final
stages of life has been reported for people with progressive life-shortening conditions …