Palliative Care Professionals' Message to Others: An Ethnographic Approach.

ABSTRACT: Palliative care continues to be misunderstood within the world of healthcare. Palliative care professionals are key agents for promoting a greater understanding of their field. This study aims to examine the messages, both implicit and explicit, that palliative care professionals transmit about themselves and their work within their teams and to other health professionals. Focused ethnographic secondary analysis, exploring the interactions of palliative care professionals as it happens at everyday work. An inductive thematic analysis was developed from 242 h of observation of the daily work practices of palliative care professionals, focusing on their interactions with others. The data was coded without predefined categories, and the analysis was performed independently by two researchers.

SUBMITTER: Reigada C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8156736 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature