General practitioner residents and patients end-of life: involvement and consequences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ageing of the population and the increased number of chronic diseases are associated with an increased frequency of end of life care in hospital settings. Residents rotating in hospital wards play a major part in their care, regardless of their specialty. General practitioner (GP) residents are confronted to such activities in hospital settings during their training. Our aim was to know how they feel about taking care of dying patients, as end-of-life care are very different from the clinical activity they are trained to.

Methods

We surveyed all GP trainees of "Ile de France". The survey was made of 41 questions regarding advanced directives divided in 7 sections about patients' care, communication, mentoring and repercussion on personal life. The survey was d

SUBMITTER: Haardt V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9719227 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature