Estudi observacional, analític i prospectiu d'una cohort sistemàtica de 251 persones amb malalties cròniques avançades, que planteja analitzar les seves característiques bàsiques i el patró de consum de recursos i mortalitat. ...

A pesar de los esfuerzos de la medicina moderna, nada ha impedido que la muerte se encuentre al final del periplo vital de todas las personas. Pero desde las últimas décadas del siglo pasado, un nuevo acontecimiento emerge ...

The current epidemiological context features progressive ageing of the population and an increasing number of multi-morbid persons mostly affected by advanced chronic diseases. This perspective determines an urgency to ...

The challenges are to promote early and shared interventions, extended to all patients in need, in all settings of the social care and healthcare systems; to design and develop Palliative Care Programmes with a Public ...

Background: Of deaths in high-income countries, 75% are caused by progressive advanced chronic conditions. Palliative care needs to be extended from terminal cancer to these patients. However, direct measurement of the ...