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The quality of death: ranking end-of-life care across the world
— a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit; commissioned by LIEN Foundation | | Author(s) | Sarah Murray |
| Corporate Author | Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU |
| Publisher | Economist Intelligence Unit, London, 2010 |
| Pages | 39 pp |
| Source | Download: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_163283_en.pdf |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Pain ; Death ; Quality ; Indicators ; International. |
| Annotation | The Lien Foundation, a philanthropic organisation in Singapore commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to devise a "Quality of Death" Index to rank 40 countries according to their provision of end-of-life care. This report outlines the index methodology, overall rankings, and what constitutes a high or low quality of death. The report examines the cultural issues (e.g. attitudes to death and dying) and the economics (i.e. funding models) of end-of-life care. It covers policy issues in end-of-life care: the extent to which governments recognise the importance of palliative care; integration of care into mainstream services; and building capacity for home-based care. While the report finds that the UK leads the world in quality of death, the UK performs less well on indicators such as the basic end-of-life healthcare environment, cost of care and availability of pain killers (morphine and morphine equivalents). The author also conducted interviews with more than 20 experts worldwide - including palliative care specialists, physicians, healthcare economists and sociologiists - to review existing research. A detailed examination of the Index findings and country scores is also available (see website www.qualityofdeath.org). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-151006001 E |
| Classmark | LV: CT7: CW: 59: 3RI: 72 |
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