"Life…Gets Turned Upside-Down…" Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care for High-Grade Glioma.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Early palliative care referral is recommended broadly in oncology. Yet, few patients with high-grade gliomas (HGG) - highly aggressive brain tumors - receive specialty palliative care consultation.

Objectives

To delineate unique needs of HGG patients relative to other oncology patients according to perceptions of a diverse sample of US palliative medicine physicians and neuro-oncologists in each of the eight domains of palliative care; and to describe contrasts between physician specialties on indications for and timing of specialty palliative care referrals in HGG.

Methods

Between September 2021 and May 2023, we conducted semi-structured, 40-minute interviews with ten palliative medicine physicians and ten neuro-oncologists. Participants were recruited via pu

SUBMITTER: Crooms RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11391587 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature