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The EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe
Outcomes
Our ultimate goals are to produce
a) a country by country report for the 52 participating countries. Each country report will comprise a summary of the literature in palliative care available in the country, bibliographic information, comments from the “boards” of national associations (or equivalent palliative care organizations), or from the “expert informants” from those countries in which national palliative care associations (or equivalent organizations) do not exist, and a summary of the data collected by the country’s ‘key collaborator’
b) a comprehensive analysis of the development of palliative care in the European region
c) an atlas of palliative care developments in the European region
We also hope that all participating “key collaborators”, “boards” and “expert informants” will remain as possible “contacts for information” about palliative care in their countries in future researches on the nationwide span of the discipline.
We plan to disseminate the final results in several ways, including publications in palliative care journals; conferences proceedings; presentations and web-sites. The participating organizations as well as “boards”, “expert informants” and “key collaborators” in each studied country will be acknowledged as contributors to the project in any future written or on-line publication.
We plan to present our final results at the forthcoming EAPC Research Forum to take place in May 25th-27th 2006 in Venice, Italy. Final reports will be written up during the second half of 2005.
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