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This book covers service provision for people dying from causes other than cancer looking at the difficulties in estimating prognosis for non-cancer patients, the appropriateness of caring for non-cancer patients alongside cancer patients, the balance between acute care, rehabilitative services and palliative care, and the differences and similarities between the hospice philosophy and those underlying , for instance, primary care and geriatrics.

The research base for palliative care must improve as it continues to develop in increasingly evidence-based health care systems, and to provide the needs of patients and families. This is the first research methods textbook focusing on the unique needs of palliative care, aimed at improving current research and stimulating new research in the field.