• J Palliat Med · Jan 2018

    A Call for Integrated and Coordinated Palliative Care.

    • Kevin Brazil.
    • 1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast , Belfast, United Kingdom .
    • J Palliat Med. 2018 Jan 1; 21 (S1): S27S29S27-S29.

    AbstractIntegrated palliative care is viewed as having the potential to improve service coordination, efficiency, and quality outcomes for patients and family carers. However, the majority of Canadians do not have access to regional, comprehensive, integrated palliative care. Work needs to be directed toward planning palliative care services that is integrated into the healthcare and social care system. To further this goal, it is important to have a conceptual understanding of the meaning of integrated care and its expression in organizational models for the provision of palliative care.

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