About the journal
Palliative Medicine is the official research journal of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC). Founded under Edward Arnold in 1987 with Derek Doyle (St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh) as founding editor, the journal is the principal peer-reviewed venue for palliative-care research in Europe and one of the leading journals in the field worldwide.
Editorial scope covers symptom control in advanced illness (pain, breathlessness, fatigue, gastrointestinal symptoms, the symptom clusters of advanced cancer and non-malignant disease), communication in serious illness and end-of-life decision-making, palliative-care service evaluation and the design of palliative-care trials, paediatric palliative care, the bereavement and family-care literature, and the policy and organisation of hospice and palliative-care services across European health systems.
Transferred to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale, Palliative Medicine has continued without editorial disruption and remains the highest-cited European palliative-care research journal in current Scopus and Web of Science indexing.
Scope
- symptom control and communication in advanced illness
- palliative care trials and service evaluation
- multidisciplinary end-of-life research
Editorial contributors
- Derek Doyle
Founding Editor-in-Chief (1987–1992)
Indexing & abstracting
- Scopus
- Web of Science (SCI-Expanded)
- MEDLINE
- CINAHL
- EMBASE
Indexing coverage reflects the journal’s inclusion in standard bibliographic databases during the Arnold imprint years and (where applicable) under subsequent publishers.
Bibliographic identifiers
- ISO 4 abbreviation
- Palliat. Med.
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