Healthcare professionals' perspectives of patient and family preferences of patient place of death: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home death is one of the key performance indicators of the quality of palliative care service delivery. Such a measure has direct implications on everyone involved at the end of life of a dying patient, including a patient's carers and healthcare professionals. There are no studies that focus on the views of the team of integrated inpatient and community palliative care service staff on the issue of preference of place of death of their patients. This study addresses that gap.

Methods

Thirty-eight participants from five disciplines in two South Australian (SA) public hospitals working within a multidisciplinary inpatient and community integrated specialist palliative care service, participated in audio-recorded focus groups and one-on-one interviews. Data were tra

SUBMITTER: Sathiananthan MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8454022 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature