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The reality of palliative care in Spain

Carlos Centeno

Regional Centre for Palliative Care and Pain Treatment, Hospital Los Montalvos, Salamanca

Pedro Arnillas

Emergency Service, Pío del Río Hortega University Hospital, Valladolid

Silvia Hernansanz

AECC-INSALUD Palliative Medicine Unit, Oncology Service, Valladolid University Hospital

Luis Alberto Flores

Medina Urban Health Centre, Medina del Campo, Valladolid

Marcos Gómez

Spanish Society for Palliative Care SECPAL, Palliative Medicine Unit, El Sabinal Hospital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Francisco López-Lara

Oncology Service, Valladolid University Hospital, Universidad of Valladolid

With the sponsorship of the Spanish Society of Palliative Care (SECPAL), two nation-wide studies from the University of Valladolid were carried out in 1996 and 1998 into the state of palliative care teams in Spain. This report is based on those studies and is the first overall analysis of the current situation of palliative care in Spain. A total of 143 programmes were identified and data were collected from 128 teams (89%): 53 were programmes with hospitalised patients, 75 for home-based patients and 15 were mixed programmes. From the activity data, provided by 75% of the teams, it may be estimated that each year 22 638 terminally ill patients receive palliative care attention. Of these, 18 021 (79.6%) are cancer sufferers. Of the patients who die from cancer each year in our country, 21.2% receive palliative care during the final weeks of life. More than 10 years have passed since the first teams in Spain started their work. The time has now come to recognize the reality of palliative care in our society and to adopt a national policy for terminally ill patients, in line with World Health Organization recommendations formulated in 1989.

Key Words: palliative care • palliative care organization • terminal care • health policy • Spain

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 5, 387-394 (2000)
DOI: 10.1191/026921600701536219
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