Healthcare professionals' views on how palliative care should be delivered in Bhutan: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: Palliative care aims to relieve serious health-related suffering among patients and families affected by life-limiting illnesses. However, palliative care remains limited or non-existent in most low- and middle- income countries. Bhutan is a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas where palliative care is an emerging concept. This study aimed to explore the views of Bhutanese healthcare professionals on how palliative care should be delivered in Bhutan. It is a component of a bigger research program aimed at developing a contextual based palliative care model for Bhutan. This is a descriptive qualitative study. Eleven focus group discussions and two in-depth interviews were conducted among healthcare professionals, recruited through purposeful sampling, from community health centres, district hospit

SUBMITTER: Laabar TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021767 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature