Abstract
Dame Cicely Saunders recognised the importance of evaluating palliative-care services when St Christopher’s Hospice was founded. The financial considerations were a factor. Potential donors had to be convinced of the value of palliative care. However, it was even more important to establish the credibility of this entirely new field of medicine. If the principles of palliative care were to be established in general medical practice, they had to be backed up by sound, highquality research. The rapid growth of palliative care and its spread throughout the world testifies to the wisdom of Dame Cicely’s foresight.
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Dunlop, R. (1998). Evaluation of Palliative-Care Services. In: Cancer: Palliative Care. Focus on Cancer. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3069-7_10
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