Simple Summary A substantial number of patients with cancer receive inappropriate end-of-
life care. Improving the quality of end-of-life care is a priority for both patients and their …

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 …

Background Patients with advanced cancer have poor quality of life and high utilisation of
acute healthcare services. Early access to palliative care has been shown to improve quality …

Background Accessible indicators of aggressiveness of care at the end-of-life are useful to
monitor implementation of early integrated palliative care practice. To determine the intensity …

Objectives Hospice and home palliative care have been associated to a reduction of
aggressive treatments in the end-of-life, but data in the Italian context are scanty. Therefore …

A high hospital utilisation at the end of life (EOL) is an indicator of suboptimal quality of
health care. We evaluated the impact of the intensity of different Integrated Cancer Palliative …

Background: Research shows that access to palliative care can help patients avoid dying in
hospital. However, access to palliative care services during the terminal hospitalization …

Background In order to avoid unnecessary use of hospital services at the end-of-life,
palliative care should be initiated early enough in order to have sufficient time to initiate and …

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on how the timing and setting of palliative care
(PC) referral can affect end‐of‐life care. In this retrospective cohort study, the authors …

Purpose: Palliative care's role in oncology has expanded, but its effect on aggressiveness of
care at the end of life has not been characterized at the population level. Methods: This …