The development of palliative care in Colombia: an analysis of geographical inequalities through the application of international indicators

MA Sánchez-Cárdenas, MX León… - Journal of Pain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context The national evaluation of an individual country is a tool used to improve the
universal provision of palliative care. The evaluation of a country's internal situation, by …

Rural Palliative Care Telemedicine for Advanced Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review

MA Sánchez-Cárdenas… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Context: Telemedicine offers the opportunity to provide remote palliative care for patients to
control symptoms and improve quality of life, even for patients with advanced diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the integration of palliative care in national health systems: an indicator rating process with EAPC task force members to measure advanced …

N Arias-Casais, E Garralda, MA Sánchez-Cárdenas… - BMC Palliative Care, 2021 - Springer
Background Palliative care (PC) development cannot only be assessed from a specialized
provision perspective. Recently, PC integration into other health systems has been identified …

Palliative care integration indicators: an European regional analysis

MA Sánchez-Cárdenas, E Garralda… - BMJ supportive & …, 2021 - spcare.bmj.com
Objective To estimate the capacity of European countries to integrate palliative care (PC)
into their health systems through PC service provision for patients of all ages, with different …

Barriers to access to palliative care in Colombia: a social mapping approach involving stakeholder participation

LM Vargas-Escobar… - … : The Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aimed to identify barriers to access to palliative care through a social mapping
approach. In Colombia, the barriers to access to palliative care denote an enormous …

[HTML][HTML] Palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean: comparative analysis using specific indicators

MA Sánchez-Cárdenas, N Pourghazian, E Garralda… - BMC Palliative Care, 2022 - Springer
Background Monitoring the development of palliative care (PC) illustrates the capacity of
health systems to respond to the needs of people experiencing serious health-related …

[HTML][HTML] Population's potential accessibility to Specialized Palliative Care Services: a comparative study in three european countries

D van Steijn, JJ Pons Izquierdo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Palliative care is a priority for health systems worldwide, yet equity in access
remains unknown. To shed light on this issue, this study compares populations' driving time …

Effectiveness of Subcutaneous Administration of Antibiotics to Control Infections in Elder Palliative Patients: A Systematic Review

MA Sánchez-Cárdenas… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Infections are common in patients with advanced illnesses for whom the
intravenous or oral route is not possible. The subcutaneous administration of antibiotics is a …

[HTML][HTML] Palliative care coverage across European national health systems: Proposal of a synthetic indicator

MA Sánchez-Cárdenas, E Garralda, E Benítez… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The coverage of palliative care (PC) may be understood as a country's capacity
to offer prevention and relief from serious health-related suffering in relation to an existing …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility of using death certificates for studying place of death in Latin America

K Seitz, L Deliens, J Cohen, EA Cardozo… - … de Salud Pública, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective. This paper assesses the availability and quality of death certificate data in Latin
America and the feasibility of using these data to study place of death and associated …