ABSTRACT

The response rate was 67%. Overall, the acceptance of the aims of palliative care in the WHO definition was strong. However, the level of agreement among health insurance funds’ representatives was significantly less than that among representatives of the palliative care organizations. All the improvement measures selected for evaluation were rated significantly higher in respect of their meaningfulness than of their feasibility in Germany. In detail, the meaningfulness of 16 measures was evaluated positively (70-100% participants chose the answer “good”); for six of these measures feasibility was evaluated negatively (0-30% “good”), while for the remaining ten measures feasibility was evaluated inconsistently (31-69% “good”).