Increasing challenges of general practitioner-oncologist interaction in end-of-life communication: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The timely initiation of end-of-life (EOL) conversations is considerered best practice for patients with advanced cancer and therefore recommended in oncological guidelines. General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in the coordination of EOL-care and often claim that they have also the responsibility to initiate the necessary conversations. Nonetheless, the content of these conversations is rarely a subject of communication between GPs and oncology specialists but crucial for timely integration of palliative care. The aim of this study is to explore the GPs' perspectives on initiation and conduction of EOL-conversations in patients with metastatic lung cancer and how they perceive the interaction with the oncologists of a cancer center.

Methods

Qualitative desi

SUBMITTER: Villalobos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11841224 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature