Background: Building palliative care capacity among all healthcare practitioners caring for
patients with chronic illnesses, who do not work in specialist palliative care services (non …

Background: The term “palliative approach” has emerged to connote healthcare activities
provided consistent with the philosophy of palliative care, but not limited to specialized care …

Background Few services are available to support rural older adults living at home with
advancing chronic illness. The objective of this project was to pilot a nurse-led navigation …

Background Universal and timely access to palliative care for patients with serious illnesses
requires mobilization of communities and both specialist-level and primary-or generalist …

Background: Palliative care educators should incorporate strategies that enhance
application into practice by learners. Commitment-to-change is an approach to reinforce …

Objective: Primary care providers play an important role in providing early palliative care,
however they often lack practical supports to operationalize this approach in practice …

Objective To evaluate an intervention aimed at building capacity to deliver palliative care in
primary care settings. Design The INTEGRATE Project was a 3-year pilot project involving …

Aims and objectives The purpose of the study was to examine nurses' and nursing
assistants' perspectives of a palliative approach in a variety of nursing care settings that do …

Background: Little is known about the physician workforce providing palliative care in
Canada, and in Ontario specifically. We developed an algorithm to identify palliative care …

Context Interprofessional collaboration is needed in palliative care and many other areas in
health care. Pallium Canada's two-day interprofessional Learning Essential Approaches to …