Referral Criteria for Specialist Palliative Care for Patients With Dementia
In this Delphi survey study, international experts reached consensus on a range of criteria for referral to specialist palliative care. With testing and validation, these criteria may be used to standardize specialist palliative care access for patients with dementia across various care settings.
Authors
- Allyn Hum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-5755)
- Lieve Van den Block (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7770-348X)
- Pedro Emilio Perez‐Cruz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6265-6919)
- Catherine Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0034-7402)
- Jennifer A. M. Philip (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3312-0645)
- Jenny Theodora van der Steen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9063-7501)
- Ping‐Jen Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7636-0801)
- David Hui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2733-6607)
- Yuchieh Kathryn Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-7007)
- Carlos Eduardo Paiva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7934-1451)
- Meera Agar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6756-6119)
- Masanori Mori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5489-9395)
- Laura Hendrix
Institutions
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
- National Sun Yat-sen University (TW)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Kaohsiung Medical University (TW)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CL)
- National Health Research Institutes (TW)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- King's College London (GB)
- Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (AU)
- Tan Tock Seng Hospital (SG)
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital (TW)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Ghent University (BE)
- St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (AU)
- Seirei Mikatabara General Hospital (JP)
- Hospital de Câncer de Barretos (BR)
- Cicely Saunders International (GB)
- Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (CL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-05-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.10298
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.39