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The
EAPC Task
Force
on
the
Development of Palliative Care in Europe
Aims:
This
Task Force aims to explore, assess and comprehensively summarize
the current state of the development of palliative care in
the European region.
Objectives:
1.
To provide reliable information on the delivery of hospice
and palliative care in Europe in a manner relevant to the
EAPC; to intergovernmental organisations and to national and
regional governments
2.
To explore the current organisation of hospice and palliative
care in Europe considering political and social issues; healthcare
policies, and the availability of palliative care resources
countrywide
3.
To facilitate access to information and communication between
hospice and palliative care associations and societies that
operate across Europe
4.
To aid the identification of key persons who have studied
the development of hospice and palliative care in their own
settings and who may provide country specific data to assist
policy makers, planners and professional associations
Outcomes
Our
ultimate goals are to produce
a)
a country by country report for the 52 participating countries.
Each country report will comprise a summary of the literature
in palliative care available in the country, bibliographic
information, comments from the “boards” of national
associations (or equivalent palliative care organizations),
or from the “expert informants” from those countries
in which national palliative care associations (or equivalent
organizations) do not exist, and a summary of the data collected
by the country’s ‘key collaborator’
b)
a comprehensive analysis of the development of palliative
care in the European region
c)
an atlas of palliative care developments in the European region
We
also hope that all participating “key collaborators”,
“boards” and “expert informants” will
remain as possible “contacts for information”
about palliative care in their countries in future researches
on the nationwide span of the discipline.
We
plan to disseminate the final results in several ways, including
publications in palliative care journals; conferences proceedings;
presentations and web-sites. The participating organizations
as well as “boards”, “expert informants”
and “key collaborators” in each studied country
will be acknowledged as contributors to the project in any
future written or on-line publication.
We plan to present our final results at the forthcoming EAPC Research Forum to take place in May 25th-27th 2006 in Venice, Italy. Final reports will be written up during the second half of 2005.
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