Factors Influencing Palliative Care Access and Delivery for Great Plains American Indians.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Despite the known importance of culturally tailored palliative care (PC), American Indian people (AIs) in the Great Plains lack access to such services. While clinicians caring for AIs in the Great Plains have long acknowledged major barriers to serious illness care, there is a paucity of literature describing specific factors influencing PC access and delivery for AI patients living on reservation land.

Objectives

This study aimed to explore factors influencing PC access and delivery on reservation land in the Great Plains to inform the development culturally tailored PC services for AIs.

Methods

Three authors recorded and transcribed interviews with 21 specialty and 17 primary clinicians. A data analysis team of seven authors analyzed transcripts using conve

SUBMITTER: Soltoff A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10230738 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature