Access to Home and Community Health Services for Older Adults With Serious, Life-Limiting Illness: A Study Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study is to identify contextual access factors to home and community health services for end-of-life support for older adults with serious life-limiting illness, as well as determine if access to home and community services is associated with health-care utilization.

Design

This study includes an environmental scan, grey literature review, qualitative interviews, and health-care utilization analysis. This study is a subproject of the Grudzen et al. Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER) study.

Settings/location

Analysis will include data collection from 17 health systems implementing the PRIM-ER intervention.

Participants

For the qualitative interviews, one emergency medicine (EM) physician and one EM nurse wil

SUBMITTER: Hill JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8121151 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature