Background: Some patients do not receive adequate pain and symptom relief at the end of
life, causing distress to patients, families and healthcare professionals. It is unclear whether …

Background Symptom management remains a critical challenge at the end of life. Barriers to
symptom relief predominantly focus on perspectives of physicians, patients or care systems …

Context The provision of potentially non-beneficial life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) remains
a challenging problem. In 2005, legislation in France established an interprofessional …

Background Insufficient knowledge about end-of-life law can impede the provision of safe
and high-quality end-of-life care. Accurate legal knowledge across health professions is …

Aim: To explore type and incidence of medical decisions at the end of life that hasten death
made by general practitioners in New Zealand, within the context of access to palliative care …

Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas in their clinical practice especially those associated with
palliative and end-of-life care. The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) …

Nursing research in palliative care raises specific and challenging ethical issues. Questions
have arisen about whether such research is morally justified, given the low likelihood of …

Background Law purports to regulate end-of-life care but its role in decision-making by
doctors is not clear. This paper, which is part of a three-year study into the role of law in …

Background: To effectively care for people who are terminally ill, including those without
decision-making capacity, palliative care physicians must know and understand the legal …

Recent studies have made it clear that there are substantial opportunities to improve end-of-
life care. Doing so will require solid evidence on which to base clinical and policy decisions …