ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management2021
Estimating the Number of Patients Receiving Specialized Palliative Care Globally in 2017.
Article in Journal of pain and symptom management, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Barriers and facilitators to palliative care service utilization in Ethiopia: A qualitative systematic review, 2025.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Primary palliative care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the evidence for models and outcomes.Palliative medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Health professionals' and leaders' views on routine using patient-centered outcome measures in a Chinese palliative care unit: A qualitative study.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
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- Trends in palliative care utilization among older adult decedents with and without cancer in Taiwan: a population-based comparative study.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Application of Terror Management Theory to End-Of-Life Care Decision-Making: A Narrative Literature Review.Omega · 2024Review
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- [Palliative neurology].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Review
- "So we brought these players together": a qualitative study of educators' experiences to analyze the challenges of creating an e-learning program for neuropalliative care.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Unlocking timely palliative care: assessing referral practices and barriers at a ghanaian teaching hospital.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- End-of-Life Care Education as Blended Learning Approach for General Practitioners: a Scoping Review.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2023Article
- Advanced HIV disease and health-related suffering-exploring the unmet need of palliative care.The lancet. HIV · 2023Review
- Palliative care practices and policies in diverse socio-cultural contexts: aims and framework of the ERC globalizing palliative care comparative ethnographic study.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
- The 2nd Annual US Celebration of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day: A virtual coming together to support equity in palliative care access.Palliative & supportive care · 2022Article
- Joint Position Statement between Indian Association of Palliative Care and Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine - A Collaborative Effort to Expand Primary Palliative Care throughout the Country.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
contextPalliative care is an emerging health-care service essential for every health-care system. Information on the current status of palliative care service delivery is needed to understand the gap between need for palliative care and current capacity to deliver.
objectivesTo estimate the number of providers delivering palliative care worldwide and the patients they served in 2017.
methodsEstimates were obtained from a sample of countries from each World Bank income group using typical case purposive sampling methods. Reliable data from the United States and eight additional countries were used for the high-income group. For low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to determine an estimate of the number of patients served, 30 countries representative of palliative care service delivery in each region and income group were surveyed.
resultsResults from the mapping levels of palliative care development survey identified a total of approximately 25,000 palliative care service delivery teams globally. The total estimate of patients served in 2017 was approximately seven million.
conclusionSignificant disparities in palliative care access exist both by region and income group. The European and Pan-American regions had most while the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asian, and African regions had least. Much more needs to be done to develop and deliver palliative care in LMICs where 80% of the need for palliative care exists. With about 70% of operating palliative care services in high-income countries and only 30% in LMICs, a major effort to develop palliative care in these settings is urgently needed.
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