Explaining health care providers' perceptions about the integration of palliative care with primary health care; a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: Easy access to palliative care is one of the basic needs of cancer patients, and this can be achieved by providing such services at the community level. One approach to provide community-based palliative care is to integrate it with primary health care (PHC). Considering the antiquity and extension of the PHC system in Iran and the importance of being aware of stakeholders' views in order to integrate a palliative care provision model into a country's health care system, we aimed to explain health care providers' perception of the integration of palliative care with PHC. The present qualitative research was conducted using the conventional content analysis method in Iran from October 2016 to July 2020. The participants of the study included the stakeholders involved in providing palliative

SUBMITTER: Hojjat-Assari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9454219 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature