Eduardo Garralda

TL;DR: The key policy and educational opportunities in the United States to address and potentially overcome the barriers to greater integration of palliative care into the healthcare of Americans with serious illness are described.

TL;DR: Current levels of global palliative care development are described and an 87% global increase in serious health-related suffering amenable to palliatives care interventions is predicted by 2060.

TL;DR: Assessment of guidelines/pathways for integrated PC in patients with advanced Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Europe via a systematic literature review illustrates that there is a growing awareness for the importance of integrated PC with advanced CHF or COPD.

TL;DR: A generic framework for integrated PC in cancer and chronic disease in Europe is proposed, which fosters integration of PC in the disease trajectory concurrently with treatment and identifies the importance of employing a PC-trained multidisciplinary team with a threefold focus: treatment, consulting and training.

TL;DR: Europe has developed significant home care team, inpatient palliative care service and hospital support team in 2005–2012, and the improvement was statistically significant for Western European countries, but not for Central and Eastern countries.