• Rebecca A Aslakson, Katherine Ast, and AAHPM Research Committee Writing Group.
• Department of Medicine and Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Section of Palliative Care, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Electronic address: aslakson@stanford.edu.
• J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Jul 1; 58 (1): 134-136.

AbstractPractices to optimize palliative care delivery and new opportunities in which to integrate palliative care vary across populations and care settings. Systematic reviews are an efficient and methodologically rigorous approach to summarize existing research to identify both evidence-based best practices and new areas for future research and clinical practice. This is the introduction to a special series of articles in which members of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research Committee report the results of circumscribed systematic reviews, which in a specific population or care setting seek to 1) summarize existing evidence for optimal palliative care practices or 2) identify opportunities where better palliative care delivery could improve patient and/or family outcomes.Copyright © 2019 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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