Background: Primary care has the potential to play significant roles in providing effective
palliative care for non-cancer patients. Aim: To identify, critically appraise and synthesise the …

Objective: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), palliative care (PC) should be
available to everyone suffering from life-threatening diseases and should be started early on …

Background The idea that underlying, generative mechanisms give rise to causal
regularities has become a guiding principle across many social and natural science …

Methods We searched our own database of papers, conducted a Medline search, and
approached experts for additional published references (further details available from SAM) …

Background: Where people die can influence a number of indicators of the quality of dying.
We aimed to describe the place of death of people with cancer and its associations with …

Objectives To examine access to palliative care between different disease trajectories and
compare to other geographic areas. Design A retrospective population-based decedent …

Typical trajectories of physical decline have been described for people with end-stage
disease. It is possible that social, psychological, and spiritual levels of distress may also …

Background Heart failure (HF) is a life-limiting illness and patients with advanced heart
failure often suffer from severe physical and psychosocial symptoms. Particularly in older …

Background Despite the positive impact of Palliative Care (PC) on the quality of life for
patients and their relatives, the implementation of PC in non-cancer health-care delivery in …

Background Most patients with cancer prefer to die at home or in a hospice, but hospitals
remain the most common place of death (PoD). This study aims to explore the changing time …