Bridging gaps to universal palliative care access in Chile: serious health-related suffering and the cost of expanding the package of care servicesResearch in context

• Main Authors: Pedro E. Pérez-Cruz (Author), Eduardo Undurraga (Author), Hector Arreola-Ornelas (Author), Oscar Corsi (Author), Xiao-Xiao Jiang Kwete (Author), Eric L. Krakauer (Author), William E. Rosa (Author), Felicia M. Knaul (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: The Lancet Commission on Palliative Care (PC) and Pain Relief quantified the burden of serious health-related suffering (SHS), proposing an Essential Package of PC (EPPC) to narrow the global PC divide. We applied the EPPC framework to analyze PC access in Chile, identify gaps i...