Difficulties Facing Junior Physicians and Solutions Toward Delivering End-of-Life Care for Patients with Cancer: A Nationwide Survey in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Junior physicians' perceived difficulty in end-of-life care of patients with cancer has not been structurally investigated; therefore, current challenges and solutions in this area remain unknown.

Objectives

To identify some difficulties junior physicians face in delivering end-of-life care for patients with cancer and to clarify the support required to reduce these difficulties.

Design

A nationwide survey was conducted in over 300 institutions selected randomly from 1037 clinical training hospitals in Japan.

Participants

From each of these institutions, two resident physicians of postgraduate year (PGY) 1 or 2, two clinical fellows of PGY 3-5, and an attending physician were requested to respond to the survey.

Measurements

The survey investig

SUBMITTER: Okamoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9629909 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature