While effective general practitioner (GP)–patient communication is required for the provision
of good palliative care, barriers and facilitators for this communication are largely unknown …

Objectives Palliative sedation is a highly debated medical practice, particularly regarding its
proper use in end-of-life care. Worldwide, guidelines are used to standardise care and …

Context Sedation is administered to some palliative care patients at the end of their life.
Nurses play an important role in this practice. Objectives To systematically review the …

CONTEXT: Advance care planning (ACP) is an important part of patient-centered palliative
care. There have been few nationwide studies of ACP, especially in Europe. OBJECTIVES …

Multiple transitions between care settings in the last phase of life could jeopardize continuity
of care and overall end-of-life patient care. Using a mortality follow-back study, we examined …

Background: Communication is a necessary tool for ensuring the provision of quality patient-
centered care for patients who have life-threatening illnesses, and discussing all relevant …

To improve the quality of end-of-life care, general practitioner (GP) awareness of where their
patients prefer to die is important. To examine GP awareness of patients' preferred place of …

Background Respiratory secretions impact negatively on palliative patients. Unfortunately, a
gold standard therapy is not yet available. The purpose of this study was to identify which …

End-of-Life Care and Circumstances of Death in Patients Dying As a Result of Cancer in
Belgium and the Netherlands: A Retrospect Page 1 End-of-Life Care and Circumstances of …

CONTEXT: At the end of life, some personalized and specialized care is required. The way
that general practitioner (GP) visits and palliative care services at the end of life are …