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The need for research and critical evaluation the delivery of compassionate care was at the time of the foundation of the hospice movement and has been further in the emerging specialty of palliative. need for new initiatives to stimulate and support quality research has been recognized by working in palliative care, by charities by the Palliative Care Research Forum of Great and Ireland, which has now become a organization. In order to consider how care research might best be nurtured supported, it is important to address a number broad questions such as why palliative care is needed, what has already been achieved why more has not been achieved so far.
Richards et al. (Wed,) studied this question.