General palliative hospital care - a Danish nationwide survey of organization and clinical practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most patients end their life with general palliative care offered by healthcare providers in non-palliative care focused/specialized departments. The state of how this care is organized and adherence to the Danish board of health recommendations is largely unknown.

Objective

The aim of this study is to describe the organization and clinical practice for general palliative care in Danish hospitals and to explore the association between attitudes and clinical practice.

Design

The study is a cross-sectional survey of hospital departments in Denmark with a partial comparison to a survey one decade earlier. Analyses were descriptive and logistic regression.

Participants

The questionnaire was sent to one randomly assigned chief of all 360 clinical hospital

SUBMITTER: Bergenholtz H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12924260 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature