Increasing the chance of dying at home: roles, tasks and approaches of general practitioners enabling palliative care: a systematic review of qualitative literature.

ABSTRACT: Many elderly people wish to die at home but end up dying at the hospital. If the patient wishes to die at home, palliative care provided by General Practitioners (GPs) may increase the chance of dying at home, however, there is a lack of knowledge on how GPs should provide palliative care. We aimed to identify roles, tasks and approaches of GPs enabling palliative care, by exploring the experiences of GPs, other healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives through a systematic review of the qualitative literature. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and CINAHL in March 2022. Thematic analysis was used for synthesizing the results. Four thousand five hundred sixty three unique records were retrieved, and 12 studies were included for review. Of these, ten were intervie

SUBMITTER: Balasundram S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035229 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature