OPCARE 9
OPCARE 9 is a European collaboration which aims to optimise research and clinical care for cancer patients in the last days of life.
This is an EU 7th Framework funded project worth €2.2 million which involves the collaboration of 9 international academic partners.
It aims to facilitate:
- The development of innovative and creative research methodologies and protocols to address identified gaps in knowledge through future international collaboration
- The identification of European Quality Indicators against which to measure future care in the last days of life
- The identification of 'Technologies' with which to improve the delivery of care in the final days and hours of life
New report on global end of life care
The Economist Intelligence Unit has recently produced a report ranking the quality of end of life care for 40 countries - The quality of death: ranking end of life care across the world. Commissioned by the Lien Foundation, a Singaporean philanthropic organisaton, to devise a "quality of death" index to rank countries according to their provision of end of life care. Overall ranking and the index methodology are summarised in the first chapter, please click here for the full report.
A detailed examination of the index findings and country scores is also available via this link (www.qualityofdeath.org)