Guest editors Jeroen Hasselaar and Sheila Payne write: “This proposal for a special edition of Palliative Medicine aims to address the increasingly important topic of integrated care in the context of palliative and end of life care service delivery.”
Integrated care can be defined as ‘an approach that seeks to improve the quality of care for individual patients, service users and carers by ensuring that services are well coordinated around their needs’.
They add: “Our aim is to publish rigorous empirical original research, reviews, research methodologies or theoretical works. We are seeking interdisciplinary contributions from across health and social care that will appeal to an international audience of clinicians, researchers, managers, educators and policy makers.”
Further information on the call is available on the journal website, and all authors should carefully read the journal’s Author Guidelines before submitting their article.
The deadline for submissions is 30 March 2015. Authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through Manuscript Central.
For further information, please contact the Editorial Office at debbie.ashby@bristol.ac.uk
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