Table 4.

Specialist multidisciplinary palliative care services in the four participating countries of the EURO SENTIMELC study

	Belgium	Netherlands	Italy	Spain
Hospice/palliative care unit	Palliative care unit in a hospital	Hospice, palliative care unit (in a hospital, nursing home, or care home)	Hospice	Palliative care unit in a hospital
Palliative care service for patients staying at home	Palliative home care team, palliative day care centre	Palliative care consultation team*	Palliative home care team, domiciliary integrated assistance with palliative care	Palliative home care team, palliative day care centre, ambulatory palliative care in a hospital
GP with palliative care training	§	GP with palliative care training†	§	§
In-house palliative care service in a nursing home (excl. The Netherlands)	Reference persons for palliative care in a nursing home	‖	‖	Palliative care nurses in a nursing home
Hospital-based palliative care service (excl. palliative care unit)‡	Mobile palliative care support team in a hospital	Palliative care consultation team*	Pain therapy or palliative care specialist consultation during a hospital admission	‖

^* Palliative care consultation teams mainly offer services to patients at home but also to patients in hospital/hospice/nursing home.

^† GPs followed palliative care training offered by the Dutch Association of General Practitioners (Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap, NHG); they are registered as palliative care advisors in a central database.

^‡ For patients admitted to hospital for at least one day in the last three months of life.

^§ Not available/assessed in this country.

^‖ Not available in this country.