It seems that an explicit model of best palliative care practice, accepted by all - at least in western Countries - actually does not exist, but the palliative care literature converges towards some specific aspects that contribute to define a death as a good one: symptom control, careful consideration for the social and relational context, preparation to die, and existential wellbeing [ 14, 15].
An explicit good death model actually doesn't exist but the medical (namely palliative care) literature converges towards some specific aspects that contribute to define a death as a good one: symptoms control, careful consideration for the social and relational context, preparation to die, and existential well-being [ 12, 13].
Further discrepancies can be found between issues related to preparation and issues related to the relational and social dimension of dying.
The program includes a sequence/alignment editor and an internal relational database that simplify the preparation and manipulation of multigenic DNA polymorphism datasets.
It might be argued that, due to the discrepancies between the element of preparation and the relational and social area, it is not possible to derive from the documents an integrated model of best palliative care practice.
13065_2013_620_MOESM1_ESM.doc Additional file 1: contains the experimental details of preparation and characterization of the relational compounds in the paper. DOC 135 KB).
With adequate design preparation, brief surveys can easily collect relational data.
The 'Romantic ability' scale (self-report version) of the TTI is used to measure the self-perceived romantic relational skills of the adolescents (Dekker et al, in preparation).
Second, in a change detection study, when we asked participants to detect changes to two relations instead of only one relation, performance was substantially impaired (Michal & Franconeri: Higher-order relational comparisons are limited to a single dimension at a time, in preparation).
In general, the "sub-areas" of symptoms control as well as those referring to relational and social issues are more widely covered by the documents than the "sub-areas" related to "preparation" and to "existential condition".
