Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Journals "Palliative Medicine"
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Assessing quality of care for the dying from the bereaved relatives' perspective: Using pre-testing survey methods across seven countries to develop an international outcome measure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: The provision of care for dying cancer patients varies on a global basis. In order to improve care, we need to be able to evaluate the current level of care. One method of assessment is to use the views from ... -
ILIVE Project Volunteer study. Developing international consensus for a European Core Curriculum for hospital end-of-life-care volunteer services, to train volunteers to support patients in the last weeks of life: A Delphi study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Volunteers make a huge contribution to the health and wellbeing of the population and can improve satisfaction with care especially in the hospice setting. However, palliative and end-of-life-care volunteer ... -
Pilot testing of the first version of the European Association for Palliative Care basic dataset: A mixed methods study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Inadequate description of palliative care cancer patients in research studies often leads to results having limited generalizability. To standardize the description of the sample, the European Association for ...