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Programas de Cuidados Paliativos en España, año 2000

Medicina Paliativa

The third national survey for palliative care services in Spain was carried out in the year 2000. Two similar studies were completed in 1997 and in 1998. The three surveys were promoted by the Sociedad Española de Cuidados Paliativos (SECPAL) and were carried out from the University of Valladolid. Some descriptive results have been published in the monograpy Directorio de Cuidados Paliativos. The present article contains the analysis and discussion of results published in the last Directorio of the year 2000. 206 palliative care services or teams at work have been identified in Spain during the year 2000. 104 home care teams, 29 palliative care units in general hospitals, 52 units in support hospitals and 21 hospital support teams. The amount of responses obtained was 95%. In Spain, there are at least 399 doctors, 663 regsiter nurses and 398 auxiliary nurses, 91 psychologists, 134 social workers and 49 priests working in palliative care.