ReviewClinical medicine (London, England)2025
Palliative care: what's the evidence?
Review in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Experience of Care in People With Palliative Needs and Their Families: A Qualitative Metasynthesis.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Delivering Palliative Care in Mental Health Nursing Settings: A Systematic Review.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Patterns of Care in the Final Week of Life: A Comparative Analysis of Aggressive Treatment Versus Comfort-Centered Care Across Healthcare Settings.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Costs and cost-effectiveness of palliative care in residential aged care homes: a scoping review.Age and ageing · 2026Article
- Good care for older people at the end of life: Shared responsibilities, flexible boundaries.Future healthcare journal · 2026Article
- Palliative medicine in 2050: how will people live the last part of life?Future healthcare journal · 2026Article
- Assessing palliative care needs in Swabia: a data-driven simulation framework for hospice and specialized outpatient palliative care demand.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- The inverse palliative care law in advanced lung disease: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Emergency medical services deployment for palliative care patients: Operational metrics, resource allocation, and patient outcomes.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- The changing landscape of palliative care: a universal imperative.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Palliative care is essential for people with an advanced life-limiting illness. Most palliative care is delivered by healthcare professionals who do not specialise in palliative care ('non-specialists'). Multidisciplinary specialist palliative care services manage more complex problems, providing more comprehensive support when needed. Both 'non-specialist' and specialist palliative care improve patient and family outcomes and reduce formal healthcare costs. However, there are inconsistencies in the delivery of, and access to, 'non-specialist' and specialist palliative care. These inconsistencies and inequities lead to unrecognised and unmet palliative care needs. There is also inconsistent referral to specialist palliative care services. Unless there are greater resources and training, these issues will be exacerbated by an increasing need for palliative care with changing population demographics.
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