Background Despite the significant benefits of palliative care (PC) services for cancer
patients, multiple challenges hinder the provision of PC services for these patients. Low-and …

Background Complexity science has been introduced in healthcare as a theoretical
framework to better understand complex situations. Interdisciplinary healthcare teams can …

Although there are many differences regarding what palliative care is and to whom it should
be delivered, its delivery and integration earlier in the disease trajectory have been …

Worldwide, more than 19 million people require palliative care because of an advanced
stage of disease. Undergraduate nursing education should include palliative care as the …

Background: The coverage of palliative care (PC) may be understood as a country's capacity
to offer prevention and relief from serious health-related suffering in relation to an existing …

Croatia is among the last countries in Europe to develop organized palliative care at the
national level. Real changes in this area started after the parliamentary elections in 2011 …

Objective To explore how individuals with cancer and bereaved relatives evaluate
information provision by specialist palliative care services (PCSs). Methods A cross …

Objectives Comparative benchmarking of specialist palliative care (SPC) services across
jurisdictions can be used to assess the adequacy of provision. Published in 2016, the …

Background: The coverage of palliative care (PC) may be understood as a country's capacity
to offer prevention and relief from serious health-related suffering in relation to an existing …

The study investigated the quality of end-of-life care in hospitals settings and the utility of
bereaved relatives' views for improving care. It was conducted over ten years utilizing a multi …