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- Title
What justifies a hospital admission at the end of life? A focus group study on perspectives of family physicians and nurses.
- Authors
Reyniers, Thijs; Houttekier, Dirk; Cohen, Joachim; Pasman, H Roeline; Deliens, Luc
- Abstract
The article presents a study that analyzes the perspective of nursing home, hospitals and home care as well as of family physicians on hospital admissions at end of life and the circumstances by which they can be justified. The study is conducted through the use of focus groups consist of participants who regard death at home or in the nursing home as the most preferable outcome. The results of the study reveal the situations identified as situations where hospital admission is justified.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; HOSPITAL care evaluation; FOCUS groups; MEDICAL quality control; PATIENT-professional relations; PSYCHOLOGY of nurses; GENERAL practitioners; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; TERMINALLY ill; JUDGMENT sampling; DATA analysis; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 7, p941
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216314522317