Patients with heart failure have comparable illness burden and palliative care needs to
those with cancer. However, few of them are offered timely palliative care. One main barrier …

Background: Clarity on what constitutes a palliative care need is essential to ensure that
health systems and clinical services deliver an appropriate response within Universal Health …

Background Older patients are increasingly showing multi-comorbidities, including
advanced chronic diseases. When admitted to the emergency department (ED), the decision …

Background Reducing hospital admissions among people dying with dementia is a policy
priority. Aim To explore associations between primary care contacts, continuity of primary …

Background This paper aimed to explore the palliative care (PC) needs and barriers to
access among cancer patients in a rural region of North India with a high cancer burden …

This article presents evidence found in a search of national and international literature for
patient preferences concerning settings in which to receive palliative care and the …

Objective: Primary care providers play an important role in providing early palliative care,
however they often lack practical supports to operationalize this approach in practice …

Objectives Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the
performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the …

Abstract Background General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in the provision of primary
palliative care (PC). The identification of patients who might benefit from PC and the timely …

Background Palliative care improves quality of life for people with life-threatening illnesses.
There are longstanding inequalities in access to palliative care, with many people never …