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Palliative Medicine
The Resarch Journal of the EAPC
End of 2002 Prof Geoffrey Hanks, Past President of the EAPC, became Editor-in-Chief of Palliative Medicine, the leading peer reviewed journal in palliative care in Europe. From the beginning of 2003 Palliative Medicine has become "the Research Journal" of the EAPC, while the EJPC remains the Journal of our organisation.
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A selected paper (in pdf) from each issue and one review from another paper of each will be available on the Restricted area.
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Palliative Medicine
- remains the key source of original material and evidence in palliative care
- is published 8 times a year
- is available only by subscription to the printed version and soon also online
In 2002 it had an impact fact of 1.421 and is ranked 12/48 in Healthcare Sciences and Services. Amongst the new members of the editorial board are Dr Franco De Conno, Executive Officer and Honorary Director of the EAPC Head Office, and Professor Stein Kaasa, President (1999-2003) of the EAPC. Two new editors joined the Board from the United States: Nicholas Christakis who is a Professor in the Department of Healthcare Policy at Harvard Medical School, and Dr Jim Cleary, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Palliative Medicine Program at the University of Wisconsin. Dr Cleary is President-Elect of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
A number of new members from overseas have joined an enlarged Editorial Advisory Board. The Journal is actively encouraging more submissions from outside the UK and has already taken on a large number of overseas referees.
The objectives of the new editorial team are simple:
- to continue the development of the journal so that it remains the pre-eminent source of original research papers in palliative care
- to maintain and encourage the multidisciplinary nature of its contents and readership but with a clear emphasis on clinical aspects of the speciality
- to broaden its international base.
download Editorial of first issue 
The service provided to authors has already been much improved by considerably shortening the time from original submission to publication. For those submissions that are not suitable for publication authors will be told quickly.
A number of new initiatives have started with the first issues of 2003.
There will be a regular up-date from the Cochrane Collaboration PaPaS Group (Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care) and a regular feature called Journal Club in which an invited specialist will review an area of importance to palliative care and provide a critical review of recent publications in that area.
From time to time there will be themed issues and the second issue for 2003 will focus on the subject of euthanasia. A position paper from an Ethics Task Force of the EAPC will be published together with invited commentaries on the paper from around the world. We invite suggestions for future topics which could form the focus of a themed issue.
The new editorial team have other plans and innovations which they shall be unveiling over the next few months.
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