Abstract Background Many people are in need of care in the last phase of life. However, the care they receive is not always appropriate. For instance, people can receive overly aggressive treatment or can have limited access to palliative care. The term appropriate care is often used by policy makers, while it is unclear what care recipients consider as appropriate care. This study aims to identify what care patients and relatives perceive as appropriate and as inappropriate in the last phase of life, for patients suffering from different conditions. Methods We designed an online survey with open questions. Participants were recruited through organizations for patients, older people and medical professionals. Answers were analysed after dat...
CONTEXT: Hospital care and communication tend to be focused on the individual patient, and decision ...
203 p.ill.,SCIENTIFIC REPORT .9 -- 1 INTRODUCTION 9 -- 1.1 GENERAL RESEARCH AIM 9 -- 1.2 POLICY RELE...
Background: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, man...
Objective To identify the types of care that patients and relatives perceive as appropriate or inapp...
In 2016 the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) commissioned a study on opinions about (in)ap...
Context. Hospital care and communication tend to be focused on the individual patient, and decision ...
Advanced cancer patients' end-of-life care preferences in oncology units, medical-surgical units, nu...
Background: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, man...
Background: Older people with advance chronic illness use hospital services repeatedly near the end ...
ObjectivesWe examined how caregivers who had cared for a relative at end of life (EoL) wished to be ...
Background: Overtreatment in advanced age i.e. aggressive interventions that do not improve survival...
The aim of this study was to analyze the perceptions and experiences of relatives of patients dying ...
Background and aim: Advance care planning (ACP) is a communication process for mapping patients’ pri...
This population-based study employing after-death interviews with proxies describes older persons' p...
Abstract Background This study explores with patients, carers and health care professionals if, when...
CONTEXT: Hospital care and communication tend to be focused on the individual patient, and decision ...
203 p.ill.,SCIENTIFIC REPORT .9 -- 1 INTRODUCTION 9 -- 1.1 GENERAL RESEARCH AIM 9 -- 1.2 POLICY RELE...
Background: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, man...
Objective To identify the types of care that patients and relatives perceive as appropriate or inapp...
In 2016 the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) commissioned a study on opinions about (in)ap...
Context. Hospital care and communication tend to be focused on the individual patient, and decision ...
Advanced cancer patients' end-of-life care preferences in oncology units, medical-surgical units, nu...
Background: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, man...
Background: Older people with advance chronic illness use hospital services repeatedly near the end ...
ObjectivesWe examined how caregivers who had cared for a relative at end of life (EoL) wished to be ...
Background: Overtreatment in advanced age i.e. aggressive interventions that do not improve survival...
The aim of this study was to analyze the perceptions and experiences of relatives of patients dying ...
Background and aim: Advance care planning (ACP) is a communication process for mapping patients’ pri...
This population-based study employing after-death interviews with proxies describes older persons' p...
Abstract Background This study explores with patients, carers and health care professionals if, when...
CONTEXT: Hospital care and communication tend to be focused on the individual patient, and decision ...
203 p.ill.,SCIENTIFIC REPORT .9 -- 1 INTRODUCTION 9 -- 1.1 GENERAL RESEARCH AIM 9 -- 1.2 POLICY RELE...
Background: Although the acute hospital setting is not considered to be an ideal place of death, man...