Early, integrated palliative rehabilitation improves quality of life of patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer: The Pal-Rehab randomized controlled trial.

Background: Early integration of palliative care into oncology treatment is widely recommended. Palliative rehabilitation has been suggested as a paradigm which integrates enablement, self-management, and self-care into the holistic model of palliative care.

Aim: We hypothesized that early integration of palliative rehabilitation could improve quality of life.

A new model of early, integrated palliative care: palliative rehabilitation for newly diagnosed patients with non-resectable cancer.

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to describe a model of palliative rehabilitation for newly diagnosed advanced cancer patients and present data on how it was utilised during a randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Methods: We designed a highly flexible, multidisciplinary model of palliative rehabilitation consisting of a "basic offer" and tailored elements. The model was evaluated in the setting on an RCT investigating the effect of systematic referral to a palliative rehabilitation clinic concurrently with standard oncology treatment or standard treatment alone.

A parallel-group randomized clinical trial of individually tailored, multidisciplinary, palliative rehabilitation for patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer: the Pal-Rehab study protocol.

Background: The effect of early palliative care and rehabilitation on the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer has been only sparsely described and needs further investigation. In the present trial we combine elements of early, specialized palliative care with cancer rehabilitation in a 12-week individually tailored, palliative rehabilitation program initiated shortly after a diagnosis of advanced cancer.

Methods: This single center, randomized, controlled trial will include 300 patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer recruited from the Department of Oncology, Vejle Hospital.

Randomised clinical trial of early specialist palliative care plus standard care versus standard care alone in patients with advanced cancer: The Danish Palliative Care Trial.

Background: Beneficial effects of early palliative care have been found in advanced cancer, but the evidence is not unequivocal.

Aim: To investigate the effect of early specialist palliative care among advanced cancer patients identified in oncology departments.

Setting/participants: The Danish Palliative Care Trial (DanPaCT) (ClinicalTrials.

Detailed statistical analysis plan for the Danish Palliative Care Trial (DanPaCT).

Background: Advanced cancer patients experience considerable symptoms, problems, and needs. Early referral of these patients to specialized palliative care (SPC) could offer improvements. The Danish Palliative Care Trial (DanPaCT) investigates whether patients with metastatic cancer will benefit from being referred to 'early SPC'.

Something's ironic in Denmark: an otherwise progressive welfare state lags well behind in care of patients at the end of life.

Tremendous strides have been made in the last two decades with regard to the quality of palliative care available to patients at the end of life. But progress has not been uniform, even among countries in the same region of the world. The objective of this study is to describe, in a comparative context, the current status of end-of-life palliative care in Denmark using quantitative research published in the past five years.

[Specialised palliative medicine...why, where and how?].

Palliative medicine is the medical part of total palliative care and has been a specialty of its own in United Kingdom since 1987. The development of palliative care has been slower in Denmark. The Danish Medical Association for Palliative Medicine was founded in 2001 and in 2003 initiated a theoretical specialist course in palliative medicine with participants from the 5 Nordic countries.

[Organisation and development of palliative care in Denmark].

The development of palliative care started in England where St. Christopher's Hospice opened in 1967. In 1990 palliative care was defined by WHO for the first time.