Nationwide continuous monitoring of end-of-life care via representative networks of general practitioners in Europe

摘要: Background Although end-of-life care has become an issue of great clinical and public health concern in Europe beyond, we lack population-based nationwide data that monitor compare the circumstances dying received final months life different countries. The European Sentinel GP Networks Monitoring End Life Care (EURO SENTIMELC) study was designed to describe last patients We aim how representative networks EURO SENTIMELC operate end a country, used methodology, research procedures, representativity characteristics population reached using this methodology.