Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Planning and delivering treatment pathways that integrate end-of-life care, frailty assessment, and enhanced supportive care is a service priority. Despite this, people with kidney failure are less likely to have an advance care plan and receive hospice and palliative care compared with other chronic illness populations. This is linked to health professionals feeling unskilled initiating conversations around future treatment and care options. This article describes research underpinning the development of a guide for kidney health professionals discussing end-of-life and advance care planning options with people with kidney failure and family members.

Study design

The study comprised 2 parts: an initial cross-sectional qualitative approach using in-dept

SUBMITTER: Winterbottom A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11359737 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature