Models, components and outcomes of palliative and end-of-life care provided to adults living at home: A systematic umbrella review of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is growing demand for home-based palliative care because of patient preference, and increased number of deaths. Optimal models for community-based palliative and end-of-life care are unknown.

Aim

To identify, synthesise and describe review-level evidence to better understand models of palliative and end-of-life care for adults living at home, and examine components of these models and their association with outcomes.

Design

Systematic umbrella review, using key concepts established a priori from Firth et al. and Brereton et al.''s model descriptions. Quality assessment used AMSTAR-2 or equivalent.

Data sources

MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Database, Epistemonikos (inception - 2024), supplemented by CareSearch, PROSPERO and citation searches

SUBMITTER: Pask S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12640366 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature