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Palliative care
Unmet needs for terminally ill patients without cancer receiving specialist palliative care
  1. Wei-Min Chu1,2,3,4,5
  1. 1 Department of Family Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
  2. 2 School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  3. 3 Department of Post‐Baccalaureate Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  4. 4 Geriatrics and Gerontology Research Center, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  5. 5 Department of Epidemiology on Aging, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Wei-Min Chu, Department of Family Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; williamchu0110{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103825

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    Commentary on: Bonares M, Stillos K, Huynh L, Selby D. Differences in trends in discharge location in a cohort of hospitalized patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses receiving specialist palliative care: A retrospective cohort study. Palliat Med. 2023 Sep;37(8):1241–1251. doi: 10.1177/02692163231183009. Epub 2023 Jul 14.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Timely palliative care should be provided to non-cancer terminally ill patients because they may have more unmet care needs.

    • Future study is warranted to explore different models of timely palliative care for different non-cancer diseases.

    Context

    Owing to global ageing worldwide, the unmet needs during end-of-life care among non-cancer patients increases rapidly. Therefore, early palliative care for non-cancer patients with focus on quality of care is valued more than ever. However, there is still a gap between optimal palliative care and unmet needs among terminally ill non-cancer patients because the fundamental …

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    Footnotes

    • Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was first published online. The title has been updated.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.