A qualitative exploration of the collaborative working between palliative care and geriatric medicine: Barriers and facilitators from a European perspective.

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Published in BMC Palliat Care on May 11, 2016

Authors

Gwenda Albers1,2, K Froggatt3, L Van den Block4, G Gambassi5, P Vanden Berghe6, S Pautex7, N Van Den Noortgate8, EURO-IMPACT

Author Affiliations

1: Federation Palliative Care of Flanders (FPCF), Vilvoorde, Belgium. gwenda.albers@gmail.com.
2: Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. gwenda.albers@gmail.com.
3: International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
4: End-of-life Care Research Group, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium.
5: Istituto di Medicina Interna e Geriatria, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
6: Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
7: Division of Primary Care, University Hospitals Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
8: Federation Palliative Care of Flanders (FPCF), Vilvoorde, Belgium.

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