Patient involvement in the decision making process of transfer : palliative patients' perspective
Year: 2016
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: BackgroundSeamless integration of patient centered care is a challenge when transferring palliative patients from one setting to another.Demographic changes (people living longer, having multiple chronic diseases etc.) and social changes (more people living alone), make palliative care more complex and transfers more usual.Transfer to another setting (from home to hospital or hospital's palliative unit etc.) is needed for medical (symptom control; complications…) or social reasons.Palliative patients' involvement in the decision making process when being transferred is however unclear.This research focuses on palliative patients' involvement: what are the perceptions and expectations of palliative patients towards involvement in the decision making process about transfer? MethodsSemi-structured interviews with 20 palliative patients in different settings: home, nursing home, hospital's palliative unit, oncology unit, palliative day care center.Variation in age, gender and main pathology was taken into account.A grounded theory approach was used to analyze data.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2554972814