Awareness, attitudes, and beliefs about palliative care: Results from a representative survey of the Italian-speaking Swiss population.

Objective: To understand the knowledge and awareness of palliative care in the Italian-speaking Swiss general population, describing main misconceptions or false beliefs and their relationship with attitudes towards palliative care.

Methods: Cross-sectional representative population survey (N = 313).

Results: We observed a high awareness of «palliative care,» although it is mainly associated with pain management and the very last days of life.

A qualitative analysis of educational, professional and socio-cultural issues affecting interprofessional collaboration in oncology palliative care.

Objectives: Oncology palliative care (PC) services seek to improve quality of life in patients with cancer. PC providers face significant systemic obstacles, stemming from insufficient collaboration between healthcare providers. This study explores these obstacles and strategies to help facilitate successful collaboration amongst healthcare providers at a systemic level.

A qualitative exploration of interactional and organizational determinants of collaboration in cancer palliative care settings: Family members', health care professionals' and key informants' perspectives.

As life expectancy has increased, a growing number of people experience conditions, including cancers, that carry complex health and social needs. Palliative care services have the potential to address these needs but face significant obstacles. One major obstacle is suboptimal interprofessional collaboration.

Palliative care utilization in oncology and hemato-oncology: a systematic review of cognitive barriers and facilitators from the perspective of healthcare professionals, adult patients, and their families.

Background: Despite the high potential to improve the quality of life of patients and families, palliative care services face significant obstacles to their use. In countries with high-resource health systems, the nonfinancial and nonstructural obstacles to palliative care services are particularly prominent. These are the cognitive barriers -knowledge and communication barriers- to the use of palliative care.