Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community-based and home-based palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) services, often underpinned by primary care provision, are becoming increasingly popular. One of the key challenges associated with them is their timely initiation. The latter requires an accurate enough prediction of how close to death a patient is.

Methods

Using 'realist synthesis' tools, this review sought to develop explanations of how primary care and community PEoLC programmes generate their outcomes, with the explanations presented as context-mechanism-outcome configurations. Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, ASSIA, Sociological Abstracts and SCIE Social Care Online were originally searched. A multistage process of focusing the review was employed, with timely identifica

SUBMITTER: Petrova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671952 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature