“…Papers regarding evaluation of palliative care have focussed on symptom control [19, 23-26, 64, 65], quality of life [6,19,23,25,59,65], 'quality of death' [25,55], satisfaction with care [19, 23-25, 35, 45, 68], help to carers [22], use of health resources [19,23,28] and participants' experiences with care [4,17,30,32,33,47,57,58,60]. Studies specifically focussing on palliative home care have additionally focussed on place of death [3,18,55,66], reasons for hospitalisation despite palliative home care [5,9,27] and carers' experiences of caring for a patient at home [7,21,29,41,46,48,54,56,61,67].…”