Quality of cancer treatment care before and after a palliative care pathway: bereaved relatives' perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Appropriate communication between healthcare providers and patients and their families is an essential part of good (palliative) care. We investigated whether implementation of a standardised palliative care pathway (PCP) facilitated communication, that is, aspects of shared decision-making (SDM), including advance care planning (ACP) conversations and satisfaction with care as experienced by bereaved relatives of patients with advanced cancer.

Methods

We conducted a prospective preintervention and postintervention study in a hospital. Questionnaires were sent to relatives of patients who died between February 2014 and February 2015 (pre-PCP period) or between November 2015 and November 2016 (post-PCP period). Relatives' perceptions on communication and satisfactio

SUBMITTER: van der Padt-Pruijsten A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11672035 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature