You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 4, Issue 2
  • Response: what tools are available to identify patients with palliative care needs in primary care: a systematic literature review and survey of European practice?

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Letters
Response: what tools are available to identify patients with palliative care needs in primary care: a systematic literature review and survey of European practice?
  1. Amy C Gadoud and
  2. Miriam J Johnson
  1. Hull York Medical School, Hull, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Amy C Gadoud, Hull York Medical School, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; amy.gadoud{at}hyms.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2014-000706

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    We read with interest the excellent paper by Maas and colleagues in BMJ supportive and palliative care, December 2013.1 We agree that: palliative care should be available, as needed, alongside disease- modifying treatment; early palliative care can improve outcomes for patients; it's difficult to recognise people with non-malignant diseases who would benefit from comprehensive palliative assessment and interventions before death is imminent.

    We note that all but one tool found by the authors had a time-frame inherent in their definition of a palliative care patient, and even the RADboud …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.