Relationships among clinicians are crucial to successful palliative care integration: a qualitative study in lung cancer.

ABSTRACT: Aims: Palliative care integration improves quality of life among patients with lung cancer and their families. Despite these benefits, significant barriers persist and patients do not receive timely integration. This study sought to identify facilitators of and barriers to integration in lung cancer care. Materials & methods: Semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted with palliative care and lung cancer clinicians and analyzed using traditional content analysis. 23 clinicians were interviewed from geographically dispersed hospitals within a national healthcare system. Results: Palliative care integration improved over time, enhanced by several facilitators stratified at four levels (patient/clinician/hospital/organization). Most important among these was mul

SUBMITTER: Sullivan DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10119814 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature