Managing understandings of palliative care as more than care immediately before death: Evidence from observational analysis of consultations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence suggests that public, and some professional, understandings of palliative care are limited to care provided immediately before death, which contrasts palliative care's scope as care provided across a range of illness stages.

Objective

To examine how clinicians manage patients' understandings of palliative care during initial consultations.

Design

Initial palliative care consultations were video-recorded and analysed using conversation analytic methods.

Setting/participants

Consultations were recorded in a specialist palliative care outpatient unit within an Australian public hospital. Participants included 20 newly referred patients and their families, and three palliative care clinicians.

Results

During initial consultations, it was

SUBMITTER: Sansone H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10726268 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature