Clinicians' Perceptions of Collaborative Palliative Care Delivery in Chronic Kidney Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Guidelines recommend palliative care for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), who experience a high pain and symptom burden, and receive intensive treatments that often do not align with their values. A lack of scalable specialty palliative care services has prompted calls for attention to primary palliative care, delivered in primary care and nephrology settings.

Objectives

The objectives of this study were to 1) describe expectations for care to meet the palliative care needs of people living with CKD, and limitations to meeting those expectations in the current model, and 2) identify potential interventions to meet patients' palliative care needs.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews with clinicians from primary care, nephrology, and palli

SUBMITTER: Ernecoff NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9276626 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature