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Guidelines for authors of European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) documents and papers Introduction

9 Feb 2021

Principles underpinning the production of all EAPC documents Contemporary and balanced: Papers and other documents should address issues of contemporary concern to the European palliative care community. [...] Writing group membership: Whilst there may be lead author(s) of the document or paper, processes need to be in place to ensure that the viewpoints of those from a range of different cultural, legal and professional viewpoints are considered. [...] We acknowledge that some areas of palliative care have an emerging or under-developed evidence base, and where this is the case it should be clear to the reader which elements of the document are based on research evidence, and which on other forms of knowledge. [...] These outputs might include: • Elements of the research conducted, such as o Description of and outputs from a Delphi study o Description of and outputs from a survey o Description and results of a review of the literature • Summary of the report and recommendations • Guides for policy development • Editorials • Review articles, for example: o Discussing the background to the task force o Summaris. [...] • Articles based on EAPC work that are accepted for publication are highly accessed and highly cited – it is well worth the effort to ensure that your work in addressing the aims of the task force are thoroughly publicised and can contribute to further developments in the field of palliative medicine.

Authors

Walshe, Catherine

Pages
6
Published in
Italy