Effect of specialist palliative care services on quality of life in adults with advanced incurable illness in hospital, hospice, or community settings: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Objective To assess the effect of specialist palliative care on quality of life and additional outcomes relevant to patients in those with advanced illness.Design Systematic review with meta-analysis.Data sources Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PsycINFO, and trial registers searched up to July 2016.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Randomised controlled trials with adult inpatients or outpatients treated in hospital, hospice, or community settings with any advanced illness. Minimum requirements for specialist palliative care included the multiprofessional team approach. Two reviewers independently screened and extracted data, assessed the risk of bias (Cochrane risk of bias tool), and evaluated the quality of evidence (G

SUBMITTER: Gaertner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496011 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature