Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying 2021

The Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke-NUS Medical School, commissioned by the Lien Foundation, has produced the Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying 2021. This effort systematically ranks and grades 79 countries (and Hong Kong and Taiwan), representing 81% of the world’s population, on the quality of end-of-life (EOL) care based on input from experts within each of the included countries. Rankings and grades are based on 13 key indicators developed through a literature review and cognitive interviews and after applying importance weights that measure the relative importance of each level of each indicator based on survey responses from key stakeholders.