Background Prognostic accuracy in palliative care is valued by patients, carers, and
healthcare professionals. Previous reviews suggest clinicians are inaccurate at survival …

Symptoms in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are underrecognized. Prevalence studies
have focused on single symptoms rather than on the whole range of symptoms experienced …

Background Current estimates suggest that approximately 75% of people approaching the
end-of-life may benefit from palliative care. The growing numbers of older people and …

Background: Of deaths in high-income countries, 75% are caused by progressive advanced
chronic conditions. Palliative care needs to be extended from terminal cancer to these …

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician,
argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary …

The changing context of palliative care over the last decade highlights the importance of
recent research on home-based family caregiving at the end of life. This article reports on a …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the status of medical education in end-of-life care and identify
opportunities for improvement. DESIGN: Telephone survey. SETTING: US academic medical …

Aims. This paper presents the results of a systematic review examining the practical
information needs of informal caregivers providing home‐based palliative and end‐of‐life …

The challenges are to promote early and shared interventions, extended to all patients in
need, in all settings of the social care and healthcare systems; to design and develop …

Palliative care research is challenged by a disagreement as to what palliative care is, when
it should be offered and what conditions warrant specialized palliative care services. These …