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Integrated Palliative Care: Clinical, Organizational, and Health System Perspectives

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This chapter explores current literature and initiatives in the field of integrated palliative care. The chapter starts with an exploration of the concept of integrated palliative care, followed by practice examples across Europe, models from the literature, and examples from guidelines. After this, barriers and opportunities for integrated palliative care are investigated. Finally, proceedings from the World Health Organization are highlighted to picture an international perspective. We conclude that integrated care has often been considered and discussed from the perspective of better integrated healthcare delivery, which is needed and valuable. But efforts for better integration of palliative care should move beyond a better organization of medical care and need to be rigorously designed from the perspective of the suffering patient in the last phase of life, and their families.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Jeroen Hasselaar

  2. Department of Primary care, Pecs University, Pécs, Hungary

    Agnes Csikos

  3. ATLANTES Research Program, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Carlos Centeno

  4. International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Sheila Payne

  5. Palliative Care Unit, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Carlos Centeno

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    Roderick Duncan MacLeod

  2. VUB-UGhent End-of-Life Care Research Group, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care and Department of Clinical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

    Lieve Van den Block

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Hasselaar, J., Csikos, A., Centeno, C., Payne, S. (2019). Integrated Palliative Care: Clinical, Organizational, and Health System Perspectives. In: MacLeod, R., Van den Block, L. (eds) Textbook of Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77740-5_31

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