Abstract
Introduction:
Palliative care is currently the responsible for rating the quality of a person's life by his health-disease process.
Objective:
To characterize the Brazilian research groups of Palliative Care registered in Directory of Research Groups of the National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development between 1994 and 2014.
Methods:
A documental research, with a qualitative and exploratory-descriptive approach, using the keyword "Palliative Care", where were found 16 objects of analysis.
Results:
The first research group of Palliative Care was created in 1994; there were a significant rose of new groups in the wears of 2011 and 2012. The number of research lines of each group varies between two and nine lines. They are distributed in an unequal form among the country regions, 44% were located on Southeast region, followed by 37% on Northeast region, 13% on the Midwest and 6% on the South region. The groups are composed by researchers, technical and students; being students, the majority of these groups' participants.
Conclusion:
In spite of the several analyzed groups, there is a need of a formation of new groups in this unexplored area.
Keywords:
Palliative Care; Academias e Institutos; Research Groups
