Consultations' demand for a hospital palliative care unit: how to increase appropriateness? Implementing and evaluating a multicomponent educational intervention aimed at increase palliative care complexity perception skill.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Planned, multidisciplinary teams' discussions of cases are common in cancer care, but their impact on patients' outcome is not always clear. Palliative care (PC) needs might emerge long before the last weeks of life. Many palliative care patients could be managed from the usual care staff, if appropriately trained; specialist palliative care should be provided to patients with more complex needs. Staff needs adequate training, so that only patients presenting a higher complexity are properly referred to the second level ("specialized") PC services. In the considered hospital setting, "tumour boards" (multidisciplinary discussions) refer often to a low number of patients. Overall complexity of patients' needs is hardly considered.

Methods

A mixed method pilot study

SUBMITTER: Tanzi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9133822 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature