PCOC is committed to advancing palliative care and policy through research.
Since its inception, PCOC has continued to collaborate with researchers in various ways. This includes collaboration on specific studies, research programs and research grants. Our program of research involves studies conducted in Australia and as part of international research programs. PCOC supervises PhD candidates through the Australian Health Services Research Institute at the University of Wollongong. PCOC produces a steady stream of peer-reviewed publications.
Research-related impact includes the development of casemix research methods, the development of a measure that is used routinely with tens of thousands of patients in services throughout Australia, and the adoption of our palliative care phase measure, which is helping to develop a common palliative care language internationally. PCOC also helps enable the development of research networks through connecting clinicians with researchers, and making research in palliative care possible through our PCOC longitudinal database. Our research network includes collaborations with Australian National Health and Medical Research Centre funded research, University of Western Australia, King’s College London, University of Technology Sydney, National Institute for Health Research investigators (UK), and palliative care clinicians and policy leads in Australia, Taiwan, Ireland and Germany.