Results

• van de Beek S, Gomes B, Eckels K, Pinto S, Sanguedo B, Olet D, Namukwaya E, Brooks JV, Belanger E, van der Steen JT. Places of end-of-life care and death in health policies of four countries (EOLinPLACE Project). Health & Place, Volume 96, 2025, 103534, ISSN 1353-8292, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103534.
• Gomes B, Sanguedo B & Lopes S. Dying in the emergency department cannot be Ignored. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2025, Volume 86, Issue 4, 447 - 448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2025.04.037.
• Lopes S, Namukwaya E & Gomes, B. Lack of knowledge on where people die and potential to do better. Journal of epidemiology and community health, jech-2025-224358. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224358
• Namukwaya E, de Sousa AB, Lopes S, et al. EOLinPLACE: an international research project to reform the way dying places are classified and understood. Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2024;18. https://doi.org/10.1177/2632352423122249
• Pinto, S., Lopes, S., de Sousa, A. B., Delalibera, M., & Gomes, B. (2024). Patient and Family Preferences About Place of End-of-Life Care and Death: An Umbrella Review. Journal of pain and symptom management, S0885-3924(24)00016-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.01.014
• Lopes S, Bruno de Sousa A, Delalibera M, Cohen J, Gomes B. 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. eClinicalMedicine 2024; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102399
• Pinto S, Lopes S, Bruno de Sousa A, et al. 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. BMJ Open 2023;13:e066374. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066374

• Dias da Silva I, Olet D, Namukwaya E, Gomes B, Lopes S. 60 years of comparative death certificate evidence on place of death from 91 countries: a systematic review. Poster presented at 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Helsinki, May 2025. Abstract published in Palliative Medicine. 2025; 39(2_suppl):1-490.

• van de Beek S, Gomes B, Eckles K, Pinto S, Sanguedo B, Olet D, Namukwaya E, Brooks J, Belanger E, van der Steen J. How do health policies approach places of end-of-life care and places of death? A four-country document analysis. Poster presented at 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Helsinki, May 2025. Abstract published in Palliative Medicine. 2025; 39(2_suppl):1-490.

• Delalibera M, Lopes S, Dias da Silva I, Gomes B. International differences in the technical qualities of place of death classifications: A survey of researchers’ perspectives. Poster presented at 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Helsinki, May 2025. Abstract published in Palliative Medicine. 2025; 39(2_suppl):1-490.

• Sanguedo B, Gomes B, Lopes S. How common is emergency department as a death place in Portugal and who is more likely to die there?. Poster presented at 17th European Public Health Conference. Lisbon, November 2024. Abstract published in European Journal of Public Health. 2024; 34.
• Adong Olet D, Namukwaya E, Dias da Silva I, Downing J, Gomes B, Lopes S. Diversity in place of death among children who died between 2012 and 2021 in 32 countries. Oral presentation at 13th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Barcelona, May 2024. Abstract published in Palliative Medicine. 2024; 38(1_suppl):1-280.
• Lopes S, Bruno de Sousa A, Delalibera M, Cohen J, Gomes B. Evolution of hospice deaths, 2012-21: a death certificate study in Italy, New Zealand, UK, US. Oral presentation at 13th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Barcelona, May 2024. Abstract published in Palliative Medicine. 2024; 38(1_suppl):1-280.
• van de Beek S H, van der Steen J T, van der Linden Y M, Dias da Silva I, Delalibera M, Adong Olet D, Namukwaya E, Belanger E, Eckels K, Gomes B, Touwen D P. Global insights: stakeholders' perspectives on end-of-life care and place of death. Poster presented at 13th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Barcelona, May 2024. Abstract published in Palliative Medicine. 2024; 38(1_suppl):1-280.
• Lopes S, Bruno de Sousa A, Delalibera M, Cohen J, Gomes B. Frequency and trends in deaths at nursing homes in older people: population-level study using death-certificate data in 18 countries. Oral presentation at 3rd International Seminar - A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care. Belfast, November 2023. Abstract published in Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2024; 18.
• Lopes S, Bruno de Sousa A, Cohen J, Gomes B. Missing data on where people die: a death certificate study by world region, age, gender and cause of death. Poster presented at the 18th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Roterdam, June 2023. Abstract published in Palliat Med. 2023;37(1_suppl):1-302.
• Gomes B, Bruno de Sousa A, Cohen J, Lopes S. Did we change for the better? Recoding place of death in Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Luxemburg and Portugal (2012-2021). Poster presented at the 18th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Roterdam, June 2023. Abstract published in Palliat Med. 2023;37(1_suppl):1-302.
• Bruno de Sousa A, Gomes B, Cohen J, Lopes S. Comprehensiveness and correspondence of place of death classifications: an international comparative analysis. Poster presented at the 18th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Roterdam, June 2023. Abstract published in Palliat Med. 2023;37(1_suppl):1-302.
• Lopes S, Bruno de Sousa A, Cohen J, Gomes B. How were place of death trends for cancer patients affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? An international death certificate study. Oral presentation at the 17th World Congress on Public Health. Rome, May 2023. Abstract published in Popul. Med. 2023;5(Supplement):A413.

• Contribution with Pinto et al. (2024) data and a graph on "End of life care" section (page 240 and 241) in OECD (2025), Health et a Glance 2025: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/8f9e3f98-en.
• Contribution with a graph on end of life care section (page 231) in OECD (2023), Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/7a7afb35-en

• 8 October 2025 - Policymakers overlook improving end of life care across all places
• 13 November 2024 (OECD) - Why is care at the end of life not matching peoples preferences?.
• 29 Outuber 2024 (European Commission) - Innovative palliative care for people with cancer: sustainable solutions for the future.
• 2 January 2024 - Study in 32 countries shows a rise in home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic

PROJECT REGISTRATIONS:

• Research Registry - Registry number 9213
• Estudo Geral - University of Coimbra scientific repository

OTHER REGISTRATIONS:

• Beatriz Sanguedo, Sílvia Lopes, Barbara Gomes. Which factors are associated with emergency department use in the last month of life? A systematic review. PROSPERO 2025 CRD420250654278.
• Inês Dias da Silva, Dorothy Olet, Elizabeth Namukwaya, Barbara Gomes, Sílvia Lopes. Cross-national commonalities and differences in place of death from international comparative death certificate studies: protocol for a systematic review. PROSPERO 2023 CRD42023420395.
• Barbara Gomes, Sara Pinto, Sílvia Lopes, Andrea Bruno de Sousa. 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. PROSPERO 2022 CRD42022339983.

• 18 September 2025 - PRESS RELEASE (Portuguese only) - Estudo revela que a percentagem de pessoas que passa o final da vida nos serviços de urgência tem aumentado
• 22 February 2024 - PRESS RELEASE - International study analyses preferences for place of care and place of death of people with advanced diseases to help them be met
• 2 January 2024 - PRESS RELEASE - International study reveals that the pandemic has led to a rise in the percentage of deaths at home across 23 countries

• Contributed data from EOLinPLACE to the update of the chapter “Hospice & Palliative Care,” included in the Elsevier International Encyclopedia of Public Health (3rd edition), 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99967-0.00165-4