Choice of where we die: a classification reform to discern diversity in individual end of life pathways

Project Information

EOLinPLACE

Grant agreement ID: 948609

DOI

10.3030/948609

EC signature date 3 March 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 874 391,00

EU contribution

€ 1 874 391,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Portugal

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Patient and family preferences about place of end-of-life care and death: an umbrella review

Author(s): Sara Pinto, Sílvia Lopes, Andrea Bruno de Sousa, Mayra Delalibera, Barbara Gomes
Published in: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Issue Volume 67, 2024, 2024, ISSN 0885-3924
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.01.014

Preferences about place of end-of-life care and death of patients with life-threatening illnesses and their families: a protocol for an umbrella review

Author(s): Sara Pinto, Sílvia Lopes, Andrea Bruno de Sousa, Barbara Gomes
Published in: BMJ Open, Issue Volume 13, 2023, 2023, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066374

How Preferences and Reality on Where We Die Unfold: A Four‐Country Longitudinal Qualitative Study (EOLinPLACE)

Author(s): Sifra Hannah van de Beek, Krista Ann Eckels, Dorothy Adong Olet, Inês Dias da Silva, Mayra Delalibera, Joanna Veazey Brooks, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Jenny Theodora van der Steen, Yvette Milene van der Linden, Rui Garcia, Barbara Gomes, Dorothea Petra Touwen
Published in: Health Expectations, Issue 29, 2026, ISSN 1369-6513
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/hex.70732

International differences in the technical qualities of place of death classifications and data: A survey of researchers’ perspectives

Author(s): Mayra Delalibera, Sílvia Lopes, Inês Dias da Silva, Barbara Gomes
Published in: Palliative Medicine, 2026, ISSN 0269-2163
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/02692163261468152

The rise of home death in the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study of death certificate data for adults from 32 countries, 2012-2021

Author(s): Sílvia Lopes, Andrea Bruno de Sousa, Mayra Delalibera, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Joachim Cohen, Barbara Gomes
Published in: eClinicalMedicine, Issue Volume 68, 2024, 2024, ISSN 2589-5370
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102399

Places of end-of-life care and death in health policies of four countries (EOLinPLACE Project)

Author(s): Sifra H. van de Beek, Barbara Gomes, Krista Eckels, Sara Pinto, Beatriz Sanguedo, Dorothy A. Olet, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Joanna V. Brooks, Emmanuelle Belanger, Jenny T. van der Steen
Published in: Health & Place, Issue 96, 2025, Page(s) 103534, ISSN 1353-8292
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103534

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

EOLinPLACE: an international research project to reform the way dying places are classified and understood

Author(s): Elizabeth Namukwaya, Andrea Bruno de Sousa, Sílvia Lopes, Dorothea Petra Touwen, Jenny Theodora van der Steen, Emmanuelle Bélanger, Joanna Brooks, Stecy Yghemonos, Kawaldip Sehmi, and Barbara Gomes
Published in: Palliative Care and Social Practice, Issue Volume 18, 2024, 2024, ISSN 2632-3524
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/26323524231222498

Dying in the Emergency Department Cannot Be Ignored

Author(s): Barbara Gomes, Beatriz Sanguedo, Sílvia Lopes
Published in: Annals of Emergency Medicine, Issue 86, 2025, Page(s) 447-448, ISSN 0196-0644
Publisher: Mosby Inc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2025.04.037

Lack of knowledge on where people die and potential to do better

Author(s): Silvia Lopes, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Barbara Gomes
Published in: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Issue 80, 2026, Page(s) 131-131, ISSN 0143-005X
Publisher: British Medical Association
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2025-224358

Serious health-related suffering in children and paediatric palliative care

Author(s): Inês Dias da Silva, Krista Eckels, Dorothy Olet, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Barbara Gomes
Published in: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Issue 10, 2026, Page(s) e17, ISSN 2352-4642
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s2352-4642(26)00120-3

Other (2)

International Classification of Dying Places (ICP), V1.0

Author(s): Gomes B on behalf of the EOLinPLACE Project
Published in: 2026
Publisher: University of Coimbra
DOI: 10.48552/fjtz-jt66

ICP – International Classification of Dying Places: A common metric to classify where people die and are cared for at the end of life.

Author(s): Gomes, Bárbara
Published in: Issue 6, 2026
Publisher: University of Coimbra

Book chapters (1)

Hospice and Palliative Care

Author(s): Barbara Gomes, Sílvia Lopes, Elizabeth Davies, Irene J. Higginson
Published in: International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2025, Page(s) 330-343
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-99967-0.00165-4