{"title":"Palliative care: what's the evidence?","authors":"Sophie Pask, Fliss E M Murtagh, Jason W Boland","doi":"10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100320","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Palliative care is essential for people with an advanced life-limiting illness. Most palliative care is delivered by healthcare professionals who do not specialise in palliative care ('non-specialists'). Multidisciplinary specialist palliative care services manage more complex problems, providing more comprehensive support when needed. Both 'non-specialist' and specialist palliative care improve patient and family outcomes and reduce formal healthcare costs. However, there are inconsistencies in the delivery of, and access to, 'non-specialist' and specialist palliative care. These inconsistencies and inequities lead to unrecognised and unmet palliative care needs. There is also inconsistent referral to specialist palliative care services. Unless there are greater resources and training, these issues will be exacerbated by an increasing need for palliative care with changing population demographics.</p>","PeriodicalId":10492,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"100320"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100320","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Palliative care is essential for people with an advanced life-limiting illness. Most palliative care is delivered by healthcare professionals who do not specialise in palliative care ('non-specialists'). Multidisciplinary specialist palliative care services manage more complex problems, providing more comprehensive support when needed. Both 'non-specialist' and specialist palliative care improve patient and family outcomes and reduce formal healthcare costs. However, there are inconsistencies in the delivery of, and access to, 'non-specialist' and specialist palliative care. These inconsistencies and inequities lead to unrecognised and unmet palliative care needs. There is also inconsistent referral to specialist palliative care services. Unless there are greater resources and training, these issues will be exacerbated by an increasing need for palliative care with changing population demographics.
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Clinical Medicine is aimed at practising physicians in the UK and overseas and has relevance to all those managing or working within the healthcare sector.
Available in print and online, the journal seeks to encourage high standards of medical care by promoting good clinical practice through original research, review and comment. The journal also includes a dedicated continuing medical education (CME) section in each issue. This presents the latest advances in a chosen specialty, with self-assessment questions at the end of each topic enabling CPD accreditation to be acquired.
ISSN: 1470-2118 E-ISSN: 1473-4893 Frequency: 6 issues per year
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