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Section edited by Jan Schildmann
This section considers submissions that focus on the development, outcomes or discussion of ethical issues and policies within the practice of palliative care and medicine.
Study protocol
The objective of the Balearic Islands Palliative Care (PC) Program is to improve the quality of PC through a shared model consisting of primary health care professionals, home-based PC teams, and PC units in h...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:4
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
There is limited population-level research on end-of-life care in Australia that considers health care use and costs across hospital and community sectors. The aim of this study was to quantify health care use...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:1
Published on: 21 June 2017
Research article
Hospital-based Palliative Care Consultation Teams (PCCTs) have a consulting role to specialist services at their request. Referral of patients is often late. Early palliative care in oncology has shown its eff...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:36
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research article
Despite recent advances in palliative medicine, sedating a terminally ill patient is regarded as an indispensable treatment to manage unbearable suffering. With the prospect of widespread use of palliative sed...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:25
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research article
More attention is being paid to the wellbeing of staff working in stressful situations. However, little is known about staff experience of providing end-of-life care to children within a hospice setting. This ...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:15
Published on: 13 February 2017
Research article
Geographical accessibility is important in accessing healthcare services. Measuring it has evolved alongside technological and data analysis advances. High correlations between different methods have been dete...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:14
Published on: 26 January 2017
Research article
Limiting treatment forms part of practice in many fields of medicine. There is a scarcity of robust data from Germany. Therefore, in this paper, we report results of a survey among German physicians with a foc...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:3
Published on: 17 January 2017
Research article
Providing end of life care in rural areas is challenging. We evaluated in a pilot whether nurse practitioner (NP)-led care, including clinical care plans negotiated with involved health professionals including...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:93
Published on: 9 November 2016
Research article
Patients under palliative care and in hospital-at-home services are frequently transferred to emergency departments.
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:87
Published on: 21 October 2016
Research article
The use of full-population databases is under-explored to study the use, quality and costs of end-of-life care. Using the case of Belgium, we explored: (1) which full-population databases provide valid informa...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:86
Published on: 18 October 2016
Research article
Institutional deaths (hospitals and nursing homes) are an important issue because they are often at odds with patient preference and associated with high healthcare costs. The aim of this study was to examine ...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:83
Published on: 23 September 2016
Research article
Medical errors have been recognized as a relevant public health concern and research efforts to improve patient safety have increased. In palliative care, however, studies on errors are rare and mainly focus o...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:75
Published on: 11 August 2016
Research article
Regionalization promotes planning and coordination of services across settings and providers to meet population needs. Despite the potential advantages of regionalization, no regional hospice palliative care p...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:65
Published on: 26 July 2016
Research article
Government policy is a fundamental component of initiating change to improve the provision of palliative care at a national level. The World Health Organisation’s recognition of palliative care as a basic huma...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:64
Published on: 25 July 2016
Study protocol
Compassionate support at the end of life should not be the responsibility of health and social care professionals alone and requires a response from the wider community. Volunteers, as community members, are a...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:60
Published on: 13 July 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:98
Research article
Sedation is used to an increasing extent in end-of-life care. Definitions and indications in this field are based on expert opinions and case series. Little is known about this practice at palliative care unit...
BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:50
Published on: 14 May 2016
Research article
End-of-life integrated care plans are used as structuring tools for the care of the dying. A widely adopted example is the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP). Recently, several concerns were ra...
BMC Palliative Care 2015 14:72
Published on: 7 December 2015
Research article
Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide (PAS) are highly debated upon particularly in the light of medical advancement and an aging society. Little is known about the professionals’ willingness to perform th...
BMC Palliative Care 2015 14:60
Published on: 14 November 2015
Research article
Hospitals have a responsibility to ensure that palliative care is provided to all patients with life-threatening illnesses. Generalist palliative care should therefore be acknowledged and organized as a part o...
BMC Palliative Care 2015 14:23
Published on: 6 May 2015
Research article
The interRAI Palliative Care (interRAI PC) assessment instrument provides a standardized, comprehensive means to identify person-specific need and supports clinicians to address important factors such as aspec...
BMC Palliative Care 2014 13:58
Published on: 15 December 2014
