Background As their health declines, many older adults require additional care and move to
residential aged care facilities. Despite efforts to reduce it, variation persists in care quality at …

Abstract Background Robust quality indicators (QIs) are essential for monitoring and
improving the quality of care and learning from good practice. We aimed to identify and …

Objectives To evaluate the impact of provision and timing of palliative care (PC) on
potentially inappropriate end-of-life care to patients with cancer in a mixed generalist …

Objectives To evaluate the preferred place-of-death (PPoD) among patients with advanced
cancer over time, and the concordance between preferred and actual place-of-death …

Background Specialist palliative care teams (SPCTs) in hospitals improve quality of life and
satisfaction with care for patients with advanced disease. However, referrals to SPCTs are …

PURPOSE: There are no existing quality measures (QMs) to optimize end-of-life care for
children with cancer. Previously, we developed a set of 26 candidate QMs. Our primary …

Objective To examine the association between primary and community care use and
measures of acute hospital use in people with cancer at the end of life. Design Retrospective …

Prior interventions have repeatedly failed to decrease the prescription and receipt of
treatments and procedures that confer more harm than benefit at the End-of-Life (EoL); new …

Objective To compare recent immigrants and long-term residents in Ontario, Canada, on
established health service quality indicators of end-of-life cancer care. Design …

Background Recently, there has been an emphasis on providing good-quality end-of-life
care; however, little is known about it and its determinants for patients living at home. Aim To …