Highlights What are the main findings? The flexibility of the palliative care implementation
model is as or more important than its principles. Public education is a fundamental …

Introduction: Palliative care focus on the control of functional disorders and complex
symptomatology and are assumed as an essential element of health care. Objectives and …

Background Spain currently lacks a competency framework for palliative care nursing.
Having such a framework would help to advance this field in academic, governmental, and …

The European Association for Palliative Care Task (EAPC) Force on the Development of
Palliative Care in Europe was created in 2003 and the results of its work are now being …

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), palliative care is concerned with the
physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems of patients with life-threatening illnesses and …

It is only relatively recently that studies and initiatives that generate comparative analyses of
palliative care development within European countries and contexts have begun to occur …

In France, the development of palliative care is today in a paradoxical situation. Although the
official position appears encouraging, it is accompanied by means that are dispersed within …

Introduction: the WHO (World Health Organization) considers Palliative Care (PC) a
humanitarian need in the whole world. Population-aging and the rising incidence of non …

Since the 1990s in our country, there has been a growing development of care and attention
to the patient at the end of his/her life, as a response to a tangible reality: more than half of …

Background According to EU policy, anyone in need of palliative care should be able to
have access to it. It is therefore important to investigate which palliative care topics are …