Lung Transplant Pulmonologists' Views of Specialty Palliative Care for Lung Transplant Recipients.

ABSTRACT: Background: Lung transplant recipients with serious illness may benefit from but rarely receive specialty palliative care (SPC) services. Transplant pulmonologists' views of SPC may be key to understanding SPC utilization but have not been well characterized. Objectives: (1) To understand how transplant pulmonologists view SPC and decide to refer transplant recipients and (2) to identify unique aspects of lung transplantation that may influence referral decisions. Design: We conducted semistructured interviews with transplant pulmonologists at nine geographically diverse high-volume North American transplant centers with SPC services. A multidisciplinary team analyzed interview transcripts using constant comparative methods to inductively develop a

SUBMITTER: Nolley E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232634 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature