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Palliative Care Services
- Defining palliative care service capability: a scoping review to support quality improvement and benchmarking (2026)
- A National Quality Initiative to Improve Palliative Care Outcomes: Identifying Enabling Factors that Drive Quality Improvement (2025)
- Preferred Place of Death: A Study of 2 Specialist Community Palliative Care Services in Australia (2021)
Patient Symptoms
- Comparing Severe Symptom Distress of Inpatients and People Cared for in the Community in Their Last Week of Life: A National, Consecutive Cohort Study (2026)
- Psychometric properties of palliative care outcome measures: a multi-centre study (2025)
- Appetite-Related Distress Is Burdensome in the Last Sixty Days of Life of People Receiving Palliative Care: A National Longitudinal Consecutive Cohort Study (2022)
- Patient-reported outcome measurement of symptom distress is feasible in most clinical scenarios in palliative care: an observational study involving routinely collected data (2021)
Priority Populations
- Palliative care symptoms and problems in a culturally and linguistically diverse population: large retrospective cohort study (2023)
- Symptom-Related Distress among Indigenous Australians in Specialist End-of-Life Care: Findings from the Multi-Jurisdictional Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration Data (2020)