King's College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine at Guy's King's and St. Thomas Hospitals, Cicely Saunders Institute, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK.
Eur J Cancer. 2010 Jun;46(9):1493-501. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.01.035. Epub 2010 Feb 23.
The epidemiology of progressive cancer and associated mortality in Europe underlines the essential need for high quality palliative and end-of-life care for its citizens. Currently, care of patients at the end-of-life is under-researched and under-funded. This is due to a lack of prioritisation, challenges in defining end-of-life, lack of a common research strategy for Europe that identifies and implements best practice and highest scientific principles, and the need for common use of appropriate well-validated tools to measure and improve the end-of-life cancer experience in Europe.
PRISMA is a pan-European co-ordinating action funded under Framework Programme 7 of the European Commission. With 12 partners in 9 countries, it is delivering a series of 8 Work Packages with the common aim of promoting best practice in the measurement of end-of-life care, setting an agenda and guidance that reflects European cultural diversity, and is informed by both public and clinical priorities. Guidance in the selection, adaptation and use of core tools is informed by experts in public health and clinical research.
PRISMA is currently producing a series of outputs to be accessible to the wider community of researchers, policy makers, funders and clinicians. We encourage new partnerships to build on the work of PRISMA and to lead high quality work informed by our deliverables. PRISMA, we hope, is redressing the current lack of co-ordination of cancer end-of-life research across Europe, and will catalyse the conduct of evidence-based care that reflects European populations and priorities.
欧洲进行性癌症及其相关死亡率的流行病学研究强调了为其公民提供高质量姑息治疗和临终关怀的必要性。目前，临终关怀患者的护理研究不足，资金不足。这是由于缺乏优先事项、定义临终关怀的挑战、缺乏针对欧洲的共同研究策略，以确定和实施最佳实践和最高科学原则，以及需要共同使用适当的、经过良好验证的工具来衡量和改善欧洲的临终癌症体验。
PRISMA 是欧洲委员会第七个框架计划资助的泛欧协调行动。该项目有 9 个国家的 12 个合作伙伴，正在开展一系列 8 个工作包，其共同目标是促进临终关怀测量的最佳实践，制定反映欧洲文化多样性的议程和指导方针，并由公共和临床优先事项提供信息。公共卫生和临床研究专家为核心工具的选择、调整和使用提供指导。
PRISMA 目前正在制作一系列可供更广泛的研究人员、政策制定者、资助者和临床医生使用的产出。我们鼓励建立新的伙伴关系，以 PRISMA 的工作为基础，并根据我们的交付成果开展高质量的工作。我们希望 PRISMA 能够纠正当前欧洲癌症临终关怀研究协调不足的问题，并促进基于证据的护理，反映欧洲人口和优先事项。
