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| Title |
Health care professionals’ attitudes regarding palliative care for patients with chronic heart failure: an interview study
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| Published in |
BMC Palliative Care, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12904-016-0149-9 |
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| Authors |
Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin, Katharina Seibel, Gerhild Becker, Stefan Köberich |
| Abstract |
Even though struggling with similar symptom burden, patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) receive less palliative care than patients suffering from malignant diseases. Researchers have found that this might be related to lack of knowledge about palliative care, insufficient interprofessional communication as well as the cyclic course of disease which makes accurate prognosis difficult. However, research findings have shown that patients with CHF benefit from palliative care. As there are no studies for the German health care system this study aimed to assess health care professionals' attitudes regarding palliative care of CHF patients in order to identify barriers and facilitators for this patient group and hence to develop recommendations for improvement of CHF patients' access to palliative care in Germany. Problem-centered interviews with 23 health care professionals involved in care of CHF patients (nurses: hospital, outpatient, heart failure, PC; physicians: hospital and resident cardiologists, general practitioners) were conducted and analysed according to Mayring's qualitative content analysis. Most interviewees perceived a need for palliative care for CHF patients. Regarding barriers patients', public's, and professionals' lack of knowledge of palliative care and CHF; shortcomings in communication and cooperation of different professional groups; inability of cardiology to accept medical limits; difficult prognosis of course of disease; and patients' concerns regarding palliative care were described. Different attitudes regarding appropriate time of initiation of palliative care for CHF patients (late vs. early) were found. Furthermore, better communication and closer cooperation between different professional groups and medical disciplines as well as better education about palliative care and CHF for professionals, patients, and public were cited. Palliative care for CHF patients is a neglected topic in both practice and research and should receive more attention. Barriers to palliative care for CHF patients might be overcome by: better education for the public, patients, and professionals, closer cooperation between the different professional groups involved as well as development of a joint agreement regarding the appropriate time to administer palliative care to CHF patients. DRKS00007119 . |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 162 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 26 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 10% |
| Researcher | 12 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 15% |
| Unknown | 50 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 39 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 4% |
| Psychology | 6 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 3% |
| Unknown | 52 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 September 2018.
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#7,227,265
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#818
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#108,967
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#17
of 28 outputs
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