Development of a complex intervention for early integration of palliative home care into standard care for end-stage COPD patients: A Phase 0-I study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research suggests that palliative home care should be integrated early into standard care for end-stage COPD patients. Patients also express the wish to be cared for and to die at home. However, a practice model for early integration of palliative home care (PHC) into standard care for end-stage COPD has not been fully developed.

Aim

To develop an intervention for early integration of PHC into standard care for end-stage COPD patients.

Methods

We conducted a Phase 0-I study according to the Medical Research Council Framework for the development of complex interventions. Phase 0 aimed to identify the inclusion criteria and key components of the intervention by way of an explorative literature search of interventions, expert consultations, and seven focus gro

SUBMITTER: Scheerens C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145576 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature