Health-care providers engaged in palliative care experience difficulty with the practice of
team care. However, the details of the difficulties have not been not clarified. To obtain an …

This small-scale 10-month study evaluated teamworking within a specialist palliative care
team. The study aims were to: collect, analyse and summarize information on how team …

Background: Teamwork is a standard of care in palliative care and that is emphasized by
leading organizations. When interdisciplinary teams communicate their varied assessments …

This study aims to identify and explore the internal dynamics within multiprofessional
hospital palliative care teams (HPCTs). Various factors within the host organizations which …

Introduction: Team work is considered a central component of palliative care. Within this
comparatively young field of medicine, the emergence of new institutions (eg, palliative care …

Background The hospital-based palliative care team model has been implemented in most
Western countries, but this model is new in Taiwan and there is little research to evaluate its …

Goal Although the importance of the palliative care team (PCT) to university hospitals is
widely accepted, the issues of palliative care at the national level have not been clarified …

Context The role of pharmacists in palliative care has become more important now that they
are able to provide medication review, patient education, and advice to physicians about a …

In Japan, palliative care team (PCT) services have been covered by National Health
Insurance since 2002. The primary aims of this study were to compare the characteristics of …

INTRODUCTION the availability of end-of-life palliative care services has increased during
the past decades. the need for such services is expected to keep growing in industrialized …