Background Telehealth is increasingly being used in home care and could be one measure
to support the needs of home-based patients receiving palliative care. However, no previous …

Abstract Background Integrated Palliative Care (PC) strategies are often implemented
following models, namely standardized designs that provide frameworks for the organization …

Context Palliative care is gaining ground globally and is endorsed in high-level policy
commitments, but service provision, supporting policies, education, and funding are …

Our purpose is to categorize palliative care development, country by country, throughout the
world, showing changes over time. We adopt a multi-method approach. Development is …

Background: Where people die can influence a number of indicators of the quality of dying.
We aimed to describe the place of death of people with cancer and its associations with …

Palliative care is coming to be regarded as a human right. Yet globally, palliative care
development appears patchy and comparative data about the distribution of services are …

Background: Pediatric advance care planning differs from the adult setting in several
aspects, including patients' diagnoses, minor age, and questionable capacity to consent. So …

Context The lack of palliative medicine (PM) education has been identified as a barrier to the
development of the discipline. A number of international institutions have called for its …

Context Despite the extent of volunteers' contribution to palliative care, and their role in
direct patient care, there has been no systematic evaluation of the evidence-base on …

Background: Palliative care (PC) development is diverse and lacks an effective integration
into European healthcare systems. This article investigates levels of integrated PC in …