Evidence-based practice: meeting a need within palliative nursing

Abstract

Palliative care has progressed dramatically in terms of sound evidence-based practice since its inception in the mid 1970s. Far from being a negative judgemental statement this is intended as a historical statement of fact, recognising that without pioneers such as Dame Cicely Saunders within the hospice movement, we would not have a basis from which to evolve and improve palliative care.

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