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Convinced that high-quality research leads to better clinical practice, the SAMS launched the funding programme «Research in Palliative Care 2014 – 2018». This page provides an overview of projects, results and challenges for the future.</p></div> <div class="text-GT"> <div class="GT M-GT"><p>CHF 4.4 million were made available by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter-Rhyner Foundation, through five calls, to support 34 research projects and to award 4 fellowships for an education and research stay abroad. The last call for proposals took place in 2018, with grants running until 2022.</p> <p> </p> <p>The final report published mid-2020 illustrates where the funds were invested, presents selected projects and outlines what is needed to establish research in palliative care in Switzerland on a sustainable basis.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div class="download-wrapper"> <div class="download-content"> <div class="titel"><h3></h3></div> <div class="preview"> <img src="/.imaging/mte/samw/500/dam/samw/en/Publications/Reports/report_sams_funding_programme_research_palliative_care_image.jpg/jcr:content/report_sams_funding_programme_research_palliative_care_image.jpg"/> </div> <div class="download-info"> <a href="/dam/jcr:d18a803d-1448-4563-92f5-431878c11151/report_sams_funding_programme_research_palliative_care.pdf" target="_blank""><div class="download-button"><p class="BT M-BT icon-samw-down">Download</p></div></a> <a href="mailto:order@samw.ch?subject=Order: (Pfad: /samw/en/Publications/Reports/Research in Palliative Care. Final report on the funding programme 2014 – 2018)"> <div class="bestell-button"><p class="BT M-BT icon-samw-right">Order</p></div></a> <div class="download-beschreibung"><span class="GT M-GT"> </span></div> </div> <div class="empty-box"></div> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h2>Downloads and links</h2> <div class="GT M-GT"><p>You will find an overview of all program grantees in the synopsis below. Details concerning the research areas supported, the evaluation procedure and the evaluation criteria can be found in the program regulations.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:403e5143-c7cf-4dd6-a99b-0bd81f00e02a/synopsis_sams_palliative_care.pdf">Synopsis of grantees</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:692d1e48-3bd4-4a46-bcea-e5de69a104d6/reglement_samw_palliative_care.pdf">Program regulations «Forschung in Palliative Care»</a> (in German)</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="/de/Portraet/Kommissionen/Palliative-Care.html">Expert Committee</a> (in German)</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h2>Symposium 2019</h2> <div class="GT M-GT"><p>To conclude the program, the SAMS, in partnership with <a href="https://www.palliative.ch/en/available-languages/">palliative ch</a>, held a full-day symposium in Bern on Thursday, 21 November 2019. The presentations and posters reflected the diversity of the supported projects (methods, settings, etc.) as well as interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality. More than 120 participants from all over Switzerland gained insight into the results of the projects and learned which factors promote or hinder knowledge transfer from research to practice.</p> <p> </p> <p>In order to establish palliative care research in Switzerland on the long term, what is required are stable structures which enable constant research work, with appropriate support and funding instruments as well as defined career paths. A <strong>«Manifesto for sustainable research in palliative care and end of life care in Switzerland»</strong> was presented at the symposium. It summarises in eight objectives how the necessary structures could be created.</p> <p> </p> <p>The SAMS will continue to report occasionally on the developments in this still young discipline after the end of its funding programme.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="/en/Publications/Subscribe-Newsletter.html">Subscribe to newsletter</a></p> <p>  <p> </p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h2>Manifesto, programme and presentations</h2> </div><div class="text-GT"> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/dam/jcr:abfdf226-47de-4941-9460-192150d61fd2/manifesto_sams_pallcare_2019.pdf">Manifesto for sustainable research in palliative care and end of life care in Switzerland</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:43802cee-96da-4d58-8700-8725e0edf099/programme_sams_pallcare_2019.pdf">Programme of the Closing Symposium, 21 November 2019</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Dr. Myriam Tapernoux, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:81777cfa-f7ae-44e5-b2d2-101bb42f9a49/01_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Tapernoux.pdf">The funding program «Research in Palliative Care» in numbers</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Dr. Sarah Ziegler, Universität Zürich</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:3e24a7b8-0bfd-4477-8248-fb16b63e46fb/02_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_ziegler.pdf">Palliative sedation in Switzerland: Medicale routine or specialized care?</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Bernice Elger, Universität Basel / Université de Genève</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:184c2f54-68f4-44ca-a236-e1c484434ced/03_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Elger.pdf">Respect for patient self-determination as quality indicator in palliative care</a></p> <p> </p> <p>PD Dr. Mathieu Bernard, Université de Lausanne</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:78b98846-ed12-4921-8cbd-3d1f35a7a52e/04_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Bernard.pdf">French validation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale (IPOS)</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Steffen Eychmüller, Universitätsspital Bern</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:f6028c5d-db57-42d1-b571-b5be225e4acb/05_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Eychmueller.pdf">A national palliative care database: A tool to better define the needs of palliative care patients in Switzerland</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Markus Zimmermann, Universität Freiburg</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:fd934287-757d-443c-938b-47981abb80f3/06_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_ZimmermannM.pdf">Keynote: Development of palliative care research in Switzerland. Insights from the NRP 67 «End of Life»</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Dr. Manya Hendriks, Universität Zürich / Dr. Karin Zimmermann, Universitäts-Kinderspital Zürich</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:9425df28-2c13-4d3d-8784-0900e47cfb1f/08_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Hendriks_ZimmermannK.pdf">Getting started: Setting up a research project in paediatric palliative care</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Ralf Jox, Université de Lausanne / Prof. Tanja Krones, Universität Zürich</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:798ba653-89b7-47eb-9135-7aec67436156/09_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Jox_Krones.pdf">Advance Care Planning: Lessons learned from research with vulnerable patients</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Isabelle Noth, Universität Bern / Dr. Raphael Rauch, Universität Zürich</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:99a3cab3-dba9-4f09-82b9-da4089b13e77/10_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Noth_Rauch.pdf">Where is spiritual care?</a></p> <p> </p> <p>PD Dr. Manuel Trachsel, Universität Zürich</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:d33d08ba-d280-4f20-a420-7dbe86704c8e/11_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Trachsel.pdf">Palliative care for patients with severe persistent mental illness</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Sophie Pautex, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:df5a1e0c-3608-4193-b594-daa899426d78/12_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Pautex.pdf">Comparing the effectiveness of palliative care for elderly people in long term care facilities in Europe and in Switzerland</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. André Fringer, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:d394668e-ce61-4b6c-a854-6bbe416f2563/13_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Fringer.pdf">Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED) in Switzerland</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Dr. Claudia Gamondi, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale di Ticino / Université de Lausanne</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:59a94b58-a539-4b51-ada7-4b04811c9d71/14_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Gamondi.pdf">Palliative ch members' attitudes towards assisted suicide: A mixed method study</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Prof. Corina Caduff, Hochschule der Künste Bern</p> <p><a href="/dam/jcr:5e5523dd-1d42-406a-9baf-053cfe4e5021/15_presentation_sams_pallcare_2019_Caduff.pdf">Keynote: From a humanities' perspective – The design of dying in an era of new media in literature and in palliative care</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="kontakte-m"> <h4>CONTACT</h4> <p class="GT M-GT"> Dr. Myriam Tapernoux <br>Head of Department <br>Tel. +41 31 306 92 76 <br><a href="javascript:dcmt('146083153134149138151147148154157101152134146156083136141');"><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ document.write(dcmadr("146083153134149138151147148154157101152134146156083136141")); // ]]> </script></a> </p> </div> <div class="logo-aux-m"> <a href="http://www.akademien-schweiz.ch/en/current/news" target="_blank"> <img src="/.resources/samw/webresources/svg/i_logo_header_desktop_a_en.svg"/> </a> </div> <div id="cookie"> <div class="flex-item"> <span><p>We use cookies. 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