Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

@article{Knaul2018AlleviatingTA,
  title={Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report},
  author={F. Knaul and P. Farmer and E. Krakauer and L. D. Lima and A. Bhadelia and Xiaoxiao Kwete and H. Arreola-Ornelas and O. G{\'o}mez-Dant{\'e}s and Natalia M. Rodriguez and G. Alleyne and S. Connor and D. J. Hunter and D. Lohman and L. Radbruch and Mar{\'i}a del Roc{\'i}o S{\'a}enz Madrigal and R. Atun and K. Foley and J. Frenk and D. Jamison and M. Rajagopal and H. Huijer and A. Binagwaho and S. Bo{\vs}njak and David Clark and J. Cleary and Jos{\'e} R Coss{\'i}o D{\'i}az and C. Goh and P. Goldschmidt-Clermont and M. Gospodarowicz and L. Gwyther and I. Higginson and Thomas Hughes-Hallett and E. Luyirika and Maria E Medina Mora and F. Mwangi-Powell and S. Nishtar and Megan E O'Brien and K. Reddy and J. Salerno and S. Allende and N. Bhadelia and M. Calder{\'o}n and V. Fan and Jorge Jim{\'e}nez and C. Ntizimira and P. Perez-Cruz and I. Salas-Herrera and D. Spence and M. Steedman and S. Verguet and J. Downing and B. D. Paudel and Maia Elsner and J. Gillespie and K. Hofman and Quach Thanh Khanh and K. Lorenz and Oscar M{\'e}ndez Carniado and R. Nugent and E. Wroe and Camilla Zimmerman},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2018},
  volume={391},
  pages={1391-1454}
}
Felicia Marie Knaul, Paul E Farmer*, Eric L Krakauer*, Liliana De Lima, Afsan Bhadelia, Xiaoxiao Jiang Kwete, Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Natalia M Rodriguez, George A O Alleyne, Stephen R Connor, David J Hunter, Diederik Lohman, Lukas Radbruch, María del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, Rifat Atun†, Kathleen M Foley†, Julio Frenk†, Dean T Jamison†, M R Rajagopal†, on behalf of the Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief Study Group‡ 
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