Palliative care stakeholders in Canada.

Background: Improving access to palliative care for Canadians requires a focused collective effort towards palliative and end-of-life care advocacy and policy. However, evolution of modern palliative care in Canada has resulted in stakeholders working in isolation. Identification of stakeholders is an important step to ensure that efforts to improve palliative care are coordinated.

Stakeholder perspectives towards implementing the national framework on palliative care in Canada.

Context: In 2018 Health Canada developed a national framework and subsequent action plan for palliative care. Collaboration and implementation by stakeholder organizations however continues to take place without coordination. Little is known about their attitudes toward national policy development and motivation to work together.

Definitions of Palliative Care Terms: A Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making Process.

Lack of consistency in palliative care language can serve as barriers when designing, delivering, and accessing high-quality palliative care services. To develop a consensus-driven and evidence-based palliative care glossary for the Health Standards Organization Palliative Care Services National Standard of Canada (CAN/HSO 13001:2020). Content analysis of the Palliative Care Services standard was used to refine a list of terms.

Edmonton, Canada: a regional model of palliative care development.

Palliative care developed unevenly in Edmonton in the 1980s and early 1990s. Health care budget cuts created an opportunity for innovative redesign of palliative care service delivery. This report describes the components that were developed to build an integrated comprehensive palliative care program, the use of common clinical assessments and outcome evaluation that has been key to establishing credibility and ongoing support.

Utilization and costs of the introduction of system-wide palliative care in Alberta, 1993-2000.

Background: De-institutionalization of health care services provided to terminally ill cancer patients is a cost-effective strategy that underpins health care reforms in Canada. The objective of this study therefore is to evaluate the economic implications associated with Canadian innovations in the delivery of palliative care services.

Methods: We identified 16,282 adults who died of cancer between 1993 and 2000 in two Canadian cities with newly introduced palliative care programs.