The challenges are to promote early and shared interventions, extended to all patients in
need, in all settings of the social care and healthcare systems; to design and develop …

Background: Providing the right care for each individual patient is a key element of quality
palliative care. Complexity is a relatively new concept, defined as the nature of patients' …

Background Current estimates suggest that approximately 75% of people approaching the
end-of-life may benefit from palliative care. The growing numbers of older people and …

Background: Few measures capture the complex symptoms and concerns of those receiving
palliative care. Aim: To validate the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale, a measure …

Background: Of deaths in high-income countries, 75% are caused by progressive advanced
chronic conditions. Palliative care needs to be extended from terminal cancer to these …

Background: Palliative care patients are often described as complex but evidence on
complexity is limited. We need to understand complexity, including at individual patient …

Background: The Surprise Question (SQ) identifies patients with palliative care needs. The
NECPAL CCOMS-ICO©(NECPAL) tool combines the Surprise Question with additional …

Palliative care (PC) has focused on patients with cancer within specialist services. However,
around 75% of the population in middle-income and high-income countries die of one or …

CONTEXT: Throughout Europe, there are major differences in the stages of development
and in the types of service delivery of palliative care. Consensus on standards and norms for …

Needs Assessment for Learning and Performance offers comprehensive coverage of the
knowledge and skills needed to develop and conduct needs assessments and to analyze …