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 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 Standards for bereavement care propose that support should be matched to
risk and need. However, studies in many countries demonstrate that palliative care services …

Aim To describe how patients with COPD, heart failure, dementia and cancer differ in
frequency and timing of referral to palliative care services. Methods We performed a …

Background. Palliative care (PC) is a critical component of comprehensive cancer care.
Previous studies on PC access have mostly examined the timing of PC referral. The …

Background: There has been an increase in observational studies using health
administrative data to examine the nature, quality, and costs of care at life's end, particularly …

Many patients at the end of life receive care that is inappropriate or futile and, if given the
opportunity to discuss their care preferences well ahead of death, may well have chosen to …

Background Historically, specialist palliative care has been accessed by a greater
proportion of people dying with cancer compared to people with other life-limiting conditions …

Objectives: To describe hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life by
people for whom death from cancer or one of another nine conditions was an expected …

An assessment of recent data on cancer in Indigenous Australians (Aborigines and Torres
Strait Islanders) shows that, although they are less likely to have some types of cancer than …