Discordance and concordance on perception of quality care at end of life between older patients, caregivers and clinicians: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This scoping review aimed to investigate the presence of discordance or concordance in the perceptions of end-of-life (EOL) care quality between consumers (i.e. patients aged over 60 in their last years of life and/or their informal caregivers) and clinicians, to inform further improvements in end-of-life care service delivery.

Methods

A scoping review of qualitative and quantitative studies was systematically undertaken by searching for English language publications in MEDLINE database and manual reference search of eligible articles. Thematic analysis was employed to identify and extract common concordance and discordance themes leading to the development of analytical constructs. Articles were eligible for inclusion if they reported on consumers' (i.e. older pa

SUBMITTER: Carlini J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359918 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature