Not published, not indexed: issues in generating and finding hospice and palliative care literature

Abstract

Not all research work and new knowledge within hospice and palliative care is converted to journal articles and published. Journal indexing does not equate with indexing all contents of all listed journals. There are journals that are not yet, or may not ever be, indexed on a major bibliographic database. Ensuring that clinicians and researchers are able to access all literature is as important as carrying out the research to develop this evidence.