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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Academic Palliative Care Research in Portugal: Are We on the Right Track?

Alexandra Pereira, Amélia Ferreira, José Martins

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexandra PereiraCommunity Care Unit of Lousada, Rua de Santo Tirso 70, Meinedo, Lousada, 4620-848 Porto, Portugal. alemnap@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-5021-0503
Amélia FerreiraCommunity Care Unit of Lousada, Rua de Santo Tirso 70, Meinedo, Lousada, 4620-848 Porto, Portugal. amelia.leite.ferreira@gmail.com.
José MartinsNursing School of Coimbra, 3046-841 Coimbra, Portugal. jmartins@esenfc.pt.
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe narrow link between practice, education, and research is essential to palliative care development. In Portugal, academic postgraduate publications are the main booster for palliative care research.

methodsThis is a bibliometric study that aims to identify Portuguese palliative care postgraduate academic work published in electronic academic repositories between 2000 and 2015.

results488 publications were identified. The number of publications has increased, especially in the last five years. The most frequently used method was quantitative, healthcare professionals were the most studied participants, and psychological and psychiatric aspects of care comprised the most current theme. Practice-based priorities are financial costs and benefits of palliative care, awareness and understanding of palliative care, underserved populations, best practices, communication, and palliative care in nonhospital settings.

conclusionThe number of palliative care postgraduate academic publications has increased in Portugal in the past few years. There is academic production in the eight domains of quality palliative care and on the three levels of recommendation for practice-based research priorities. The major research gaps in Portugal are at the system and societal context levels.

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end-of-life carepalliative careresearch

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PMID30103530
PMCPMC6163737
OpenAlexW2886763628

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