Context If access to effective palliative care is to extend beyond cancer patients, an
understanding of the comparative prevalence of palliative care problems among cancer and non-…

Objective. The aim of this systematic review is to identify the perceived factors hindering or
facilitating GPs in engaging in advance care planning (ACP) with their patients about care at …

Background: Knowing the barriers/enablers to deprescribing in people with a life-limiting
disease is crucial for the development of successful deprescribing interventions. These barriers/…

Background The benefit of early integration of palliative care into oncological care is suggested
to be due to increased psychosocial support. In Belgium, psychosocial care is part of …

Background Weight loss limits cancer therapy, quality of life and survival. Common diagnostic
criteria and a framework for a classification system for cancer cachexia were recently …

Background The long-term and often lifelong relationship of general practitioners (GPs) with
their patients is considered to make them the ideal initiators of advance care planning (ACP)…

Aim To describe how patients with COPD, heart failure, dementia and cancer differ in
frequency and timing of referral to palliative care services. Methods We performed a population-…

Background Studying where people die across countries can serve as an evidence base for
health policy on end-of-life care. This study describes the place of death of people who died …

Background: Where people die can influence a number of indicators of the quality of dying.
We aimed to describe the place of death of people with cancer and its associations with …

Background: There is a growing recognition that a palliative care approach should be
initiated early and not just in the terminal phase for patients with life-limiting diseases. Family …