Full integration of oncology and palliative care relies on the specific knowledge and skills of
two modes of care: the tumour-directed approach, the main focus of which is on treating the …

Contrary to common perception, modern palliative care (PC) is applicable to all people with
an incurable disease, not only cancer. PC is appropriate at every stage of disease …

Background Low socioeconomic position (SEP) is recognized as a risk factor for worse
health outcomes. How socioeconomic factors influence end-of-life care, and the magnitude …

Background Achieving choice is proposed as a quality marker. But little is known about what
influences preferences especially among older adults. We aimed to determine and compare …

Background Inequalities in access to hospice care is a source of considerable concern;
white, middle-class, middle-aged patients with cancer have traditionally been over …

Background: Little population-level information exists about the delivery of palliative care
across multiple health sectors, important in providing a complete picture of current care and …

There has been a systematic and largely unconscious neglect of gender in palliative care
research, practice and policy. This is despite significant, although previously uncollated …

Palliative and end of life care researchers are being issued 'wake up'calls that they need to
start adopting an equity framework and pay more attention to how the social determinants of …

Introduction A fall in hospital deaths in dementia has been interpreted as indicating an
improvement in end-of-life care. Whether other indicators of quality of end-of-life care, such …

Objectives While guidelines recommend palliative care in non-cancer conditions, this has
not been widely implemented. We examined whether the recording of a palliative care …