Consensus palliative care referral criteria for people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: An international Delphi study
Consensus referral criteria for specialist palliative care referral in ILD are presented, which emphasise comprehensive needs assessment and open communication between clinicians and patients. Future work is needed to examine the implementation of these criteria in clinical respiratory care.
Authors
- Sabrina Bajwah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5338-8107)
- Natasha Smallwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3403-3586)
- Amy Pascoe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-6856)
- Yuchieh Kathryn Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-7007)
- Mhoira Leng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1449-0437)
- J. Philip
- Tony Warwick
- Magnus Ekström
- Pedro Emilio Perez-Cruz
- Kathleen Oare Lindell
- Nicole Goh
- Jeff McCulloch
- Yet H Khor
- David Hui
Institutions
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Medical University of South Carolina (US)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CL)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Lund University (SE)
- House of Representatives (NL)
- Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research centre (AU)
- Institute for Breathing and Sleep (AU)
- Cicely Saunders International (GB)
- Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (CL)
- Alfred Health (AU)
- Austin Health (AU)
- Makerere University (UG)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of the American Thoracic Society
- Published
- 2026-03-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/annalsats/aaoag070
- Primary Topic
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00