Background The focus of this project is on improving the provision of primary palliative care
(PC) by general practitioners (GPs). While approximately 10–15% of the incurable, seriously …

Objective: The aim of this study was to illustrate the characteristics of patients with palliative
care (PC) needs, early identified by general practitioners (GPs), and to analyze their care …

Background Hospital admissions are common in the last phase of life. However, palliative
care and advance care planning (ACP) are provided late or not at all during hospital …

Ending life with dignity, with freedom from pain and with appropriate social, psychological,
spiritual and medical support are widely accepted as attributes of good palliative care, but …

Background: With worldwide population ageing and the increasing prevalence of chronic
conditions, government policies promoting palliative care, and evidence of disparate or even …

Context Managing symptom clusters or multiple concurrent symptoms in patients with
advanced cancer remains a clinical challenge. The optimal processes constituting effective …

INTRODUCTION: The vision for palliative care service provision in New Zealand is for all
people who are dying and their families to have timely access to culturally appropriate …

This article has 3 goals: To describe the attitudes and experiences of staff on end-of-life care
treatment of dying persons, to examine how the staff view their terminally ill patients, and to …

Background Hospitals can be challenging environments for nurses when providing palliative
and end-of-life care. Understanding hospital nurses' experiences of their application of …

The evidence from randomized controlled trials supports the integration of palliative care
early in the disease trajectory. However, in terms of outcomes and quality indicators for care …