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The
EAPC Task
Force
on
the
Development of Palliative Care in Europe
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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