J Pain Symptom Manage
September 2021
Context: Research on palliative care (PC) can be used as a direct measure to assess the level of PC development in a country or region.
Objectives: To investigate the scientific production in the field of PC in South American countries over the last two decades.
Methods: The search was performed using the terms "palliative care," "hospice care," "hospices," and "terminal care" combined with the names of South American countries in several databases.