End-of-life care preferences of older patients with multimorbidity: protocol of a mixed-methods systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

End-of-life care is an essential task performed by most healthcare providers and often involves decision-making about how and where patients want to receive care. To provide decision support to healthcare professionals and patients in this difficult situation, we will systematically review a knowledge cluster of the end-of-life care preferences of older patients with multimorbidity that we previously identified using an evidence map.

Methods and analysis

We will systematically search for studies reporting end-of-life care preferences of older patients (mean age ≥60) with multimorbidity (≥2 chronic conditions) in MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded, PSYNDEX and The Cochrane Library from inception to S

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Gonzalez AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7342816 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature