The Palliative Care Challenge: Analysis of Barriers and Opportunities to Integrate Palliative Care in Europe in the View of National Associations.

Centeno C, Garralda E, Carrasco JM, Den Herder-van der Eerden M, Aldridge M, Stevenson D, Meier DE, Hasselaar J. The Palliative Care Challenge: Analysis of Barriers and Opportunities to Integrate Palliative Care in Europe in the View of National Associations. Journal of palliative medicine. 2017 May 16. PMID: 28509657 [PubMed]

Abstract

Palliative care (PC) development is diverse and lacks an effective integration into European healthcare systems. This article investigates levels of integrated PC in European countries.