Current research assessing the economic outcomes of palliative care is limited, and
policymakers, payers, patients and clinicians need more information to appropriately and …

Current research assessing the economic outcomes of palliative care is limited, and
policymakers, payers, patients and clinicians need more information to appropriately and …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care philosophy addressing patient and family needs
and goals without providing a cure for the underlying disease. Palliative care can be …

Caring for patients with advanced or highly symptomatic disease is expensive. In High
Income Countries, the financial cost to an individual has been shown to be significant. In the …

Background As the demand for palliative care increases, more information is needed on
how efficient different types of palliative care models are for providing care to dying patients …

Outcomes 1. Recognize the types of high-value economic evidence and the key barriers to
development of such evidence in palliative care 2. Explain the key elements of the proposed …

Investing in palliative and end-of-life care services improves our chances of living well
towards the end of life, and in accordance with our wishes. However, the global provision of …

Eight years ago, a series of special articles on the economics of palliative and end-of-life
care identified myriad challenges for the field, including a shortage of primary research …

The importance of developing and strengthening the evidence base on palliative care is well
established. Fiscal pressures and rising healthcare costs among seriously ill populations …

More people will need palliative care in aging societies with stretched health budgets and
less ability to provide informal care. The future will bring new and tougher challenges to …