Background The policy several countries is to provide people with a terminal illness the
choice of dying at home; this is supported by surveys that indicate that the general public …

Objective: Due to an urgent need for specialized palliative care (SPC) for patients with
advanced cancer, an overview of available information on organization and outcomes of …

Background Specialised palliative care trials often fail to address intervention effects on
caregiver anxiety and depression, particularly in bereavement. We evaluate effects of …

Objective Specialized palliative care (SPC) interventions increasingly include patient‐
caregiver dyads, but their effects on dyadic coping are unknown. We investigated whether …

Objective: Patients with incurable cancer and their informal caregivers have numerous
psychological and psychosocial needs. Many of these patients wish to receive their care and …

Resumen GRIEBELER CORDEIRO, Franciele Roberta et al. Definitions for “palliative
care”,“end-of-life” and “terminally ill” in oncology: a scoping review. Enfermería …

Background: The focus of specialized palliative care is to improve quality of life for patients
with incurable cancer and their relatives including an increased opportunity to make their …

Background While hospitals remain the most common place of death in many western
countries, specialised palliative care (SPC) at home is an alternative to improve the quality …

Context Avoidable hospital admissions are important negative indicators of quality of end-of-
life care. Specialized palliative care (SPC) may support patients remaining at home …

Objectives To assess the effect of a systematic, fast-track transition from oncological
treatment to specialised palliative care at home on symptom burden, to explore intervention …