Heterogeneity and changes in preferences for dying at home: a systematic review

B Gomes, N Calanzani, M Gysels, S Hall… - BMC palliative …, 2013 - Springer
Background Home-based models of hospice and palliative care are promoted with the
argument that most people prefer to die at home. We examined the heterogeneity in …

Do patients want to die at home? A systematic review of the UK literature, focused on missing preferences for place of death

S Hoare, ZS Morris, MP Kelly, I Kuhn, S Barclay - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background End-of-life care policy has a focus on enabling patients to die in their preferred
place; this is believed for most to be home. This review assesses patient preferences for …

The 'problematisation'of palliative care in hospital: an exploratory review of international palliative care policy in five countries

J Robinson, M Gott, C Gardiner, C Ingleton - BMC Palliative Care, 2016 - Springer
Background Government policy is a fundamental component of initiating change to improve
the provision of palliative care at a national level. The World Health Organisation's …

End-of-life care—what do cancer patients want?

SA Khan, B Gomes, IJ Higginson - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2014 - nature.com
Patients with cancer frequently suffer from debilitating physical symptoms and psychological
distress, particularly at the end of life. Interventions to help alleviate these problems are often …

Preferred and actual place of death in haematological malignancy

DA Howell, HI Wang, E Roman, AG Smith… - BMJ supportive & …, 2017 - spcare.bmj.com
Objectives Home is considered the preferred place of death for many, but patients with
haematological malignancies (leukaemias, lymphomas and myeloma) die in hospital more …

The acute hospital setting as a place of death and final care: a qualitative study on perspectives of family physicians, nurses and family carers

T Reyniers, D Houttekier, J Cohen, HR Pasman… - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
While the focus of end-of-life care research and policy has predominantly been on 'death in
a homelike environment', little is known about perceptions of the acute hospital setting as a …

[HTML][HTML] Where Americans die—is there really “no place like home”?

MW Wachterman, EA Luth, RS Semco… - The New England …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Where Americans die has shifted over the past 15 years, away from hospitals and nursing
facilities and toward home. By 2017, 31% of Americans died at home, making it the most …

Preferred place of death for patients referred to a specialist palliative care service

E Arnold, AM Finucane, D Oxenham - BMJ supportive & palliative …, 2015 - spcare.bmj.com
Objectives Understanding patients' preferences for place of death and supporting patients to
achieve their wishes has become a priority. This study aims to:(1) examine preferences of …

Healthcare professionals' perspectives of patient and family preferences of patient place of death: a qualitative study

MK Sathiananthan, GB Crawford, J Eliott - BMC palliative care, 2021 - Springer
Background Home death is one of the key performance indicators of the quality of palliative
care service delivery. Such a measure has direct implications on everyone involved at the …

Preference and actual place-of-death in advanced cancer: prospective longitudinal study

TC de Oliveira Valentino, CE Paiva… - BMJ Supportive & …, 2024 - spcare.bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate the preferred place-of-death (PPoD) among patients with advanced
cancer over time, and the concordance between preferred and actual place-of-death …