The ethics of palliative care: European perspectives.

The Journal of the European Association for Palliative Care European Association for Palliative Care Austrian Society for Palliative Care

Changing perspectives on palliative care.

In the United States, hospice and palliative care are two distinct expressions of the hospice interdisciplinary team approach to end-of-life care, which originated in Great Britain in the 1960s. The hospice movement developed largely as a home-care program and alternative to conventional care. Hospice regulations and reimbursement allowances limit services to patients who are expected to die wi...

Measuring relatives' perspectives on the quality of palliative care: the Consumer Quality Index Palliative Care.

CONTEXT A Consumer Quality Index (CQ-index) is a questionnaire assessing the actual care experiences and how important the recipient finds certain care aspects, as well as the priorities for improving quality. A CQ-index Palliative Care (CQ-index PC) for bereaved relatives was developed to measure the quality of palliative care. OBJECTIVES This article provides insight into the development an...

Promoting palliative care in the community: production of the primary palliative care toolkit by the European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce in primary palliative care.

BACKGROUND A multidisciplinary European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce was established to scope the extent of and learn what facilitates and hinders the development of palliative care in the community across Europe. AIM To document the barriers and facilitators for palliative care in the community and to produce a resource toolkit that palliative care specialists, primary care healt...

Ethics perspectives on end-of-life care.

T echnologic advancements in aggressive medical management at the end of life now have led more Americans to fear how they die than death itself. The lay popular press 1-4 reflects how widespread is public dissatisfaction about health care system management of dying in the United States. Surveys5 indicate that if given the choice, most Americans would avoid aggressive intensive care unit (ICU) ...