Community access to palliative care medicines-patient and professional experience: systematic review and narrative synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing palliative care patients living at home with timely access to medicines is critical to enable effective symptom management, minimise burden and reduce unplanned use of healthcare services. Little is known about how diverse community-based palliative care models influence medicine access.

Objective

To produce a critical overview of research on experiences and outcomes of medicine access in community-based palliative care models of service delivery through a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Methods

MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library databases and grey literature were systematically searched for all types of studies. Study quality was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool; a narrative synthesis was used to integra

SUBMITTER: Ogi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671949 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature