Background: Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chronic diseases a growing number of people experience complex symptoms and require palliative care towards the end of life. However, population-based data on the number of people receiving palliative care in Europe are scarce. The objective of this study is to examine, in four European countries, the number of people receiving palliative care in the last three months of life and the factors associated with receiving palliative care. Methods: Cross-national retrospective study. Over two years (2009–2010), GPs belonging to representative epidemiological surveillance networks in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain registered weekly all deaths of patients (≥18 years) in...
Aims: 1) To study demographic and clinical factors associated with dying at a preferred place for ca...
Background: The need for increased use and timely initiation of palliative care for all people, not ...
<strong>Background<strong> Repeated and long hospitalizations of cancer patients at the end of life ...
<p><b>BACKGROUND: </b>Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chron...
Background: Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chronic diseases a growing number...
Background: Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chronic diseases a growing number...
Background: At the end of life, personalised and specialised care is often required. The way care is...
Background: This is an international study across four European countries (Belgium[BE], the Netherla...
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is unknow...
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is unknow...
Background: Most people would prefer to be cared for and to die at home. On the other hand, hospital...
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is unknow...
BACKGROUND: Although end-of-life care has become an issue of great clinical and public health concer...
Background: Most people would prefer to be cared for and to die at home. On the other hand, hospital...
CONTEXT: At the end of life, some personalized and specialized care is required. The way that genera...
Aims: 1) To study demographic and clinical factors associated with dying at a preferred place for ca...
Background: The need for increased use and timely initiation of palliative care for all people, not ...
<strong>Background<strong> Repeated and long hospitalizations of cancer patients at the end of life ...
<p><b>BACKGROUND: </b>Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chron...
Background: Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chronic diseases a growing number...
Background: Due to a rising number of deaths from cancer and other chronic diseases a growing number...
Background: At the end of life, personalised and specialised care is often required. The way care is...
Background: This is an international study across four European countries (Belgium[BE], the Netherla...
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is unknow...
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is unknow...
Background: Most people would prefer to be cared for and to die at home. On the other hand, hospital...
Background: While the need for palliative care in long-term care facilities is growing, it is unknow...
BACKGROUND: Although end-of-life care has become an issue of great clinical and public health concer...
Background: Most people would prefer to be cared for and to die at home. On the other hand, hospital...
CONTEXT: At the end of life, some personalized and specialized care is required. The way that genera...
Aims: 1) To study demographic and clinical factors associated with dying at a preferred place for ca...
Background: The need for increased use and timely initiation of palliative care for all people, not ...
<strong>Background<strong> Repeated and long hospitalizations of cancer patients at the end of life ...