Author's response to reviews Title:Strategies to implement evidence into practice to improve palliative care: recommendations of a nominal group approach with expert opinion leaders Authors:

Strategies to implement evidence into practice to improve palliative care: recommendations of a nominal group approach with expert opinion leaders

BACKGROUND In the past decades, many new insights and best practices in palliative care, a relatively new field in health care, have been published. However, this knowledge is often not implemented. The aim of this study therefore was to identify strategies to implement improvement activities identified in a research project within daily palliative care practice. METHODS A nominal group techn...

Author's response to reviews Title: Expert opinion on detecting and treating depression in palliative care: A Delphi study Authors:

Paediatric palliative care: recommendations for treatment of symptoms in the Netherlands

BACKGROUND Children dying of a life threatening disease suffer a great deal at the end of life. Symptom control is often unsatisfactory, partly because many caregivers are simply not familiar with paediatric palliative care. To ensure that a child with a life-threatening condition receives high quality palliative care, clinical practice guidelines are needed. The aim of this study is to improve...

The development of evidence-based European guidelines on the management of depression in palliative cancer care.

Depression is common in cancer patients, particularly those with advanced disease. It is associated with adverse outcomes such as increased pain, disability and poorer prognosis. Our aim was to produce a European evidence-based clinical guideline on the management of depression in patients receiving palliative care to inform practice, establish policy, promote European consensus and ultimately ...

Evidence Based Practice - What is Evidence?

Evidence based practice provides clinicians a method to implement scientifically proven and appraised evidence in making clinical decisions during healthcare delivery. Findings from research, knowledge from basic science, clinical knowledge and expert opinion are all regarded as evidence. In line with evidence based hierarchy there has been extreme emphasis on clinical controlled trials. Howeve...