Title |
Early identification of and proactive palliative care for patients in general practice, incentive and methods of a randomized controlled trial
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Published in |
BMC Primary Care, November 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2296-12-123 |
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Authors |
Bregje Thoonsen, Marieke Groot, Yvonne Engels, Judith Prins, Stans Verhagen, Cilia Galesloot, Chris van Weel, Kris Vissers |
Abstract |
According to the Word Health Organization, patients who can benefit from palliative care should be identified earlier to enable proactive palliative care. Up to now, this is not common practice and has hardly been addressed in scientific literature. Still, palliative care is limited to the terminal phase and restricted to patients with cancer. Therefore, we trained general practitioners (GPs) in identifying palliative patients in an earlier phase of their disease trajectory and in delivering structured proactive palliative care. The aim of our study is to determine if this training, in combination with consulting an expert in palliative care regarding each palliative patient's tailored care plan, can improve different aspects of the quality of the remaining life of patients with severe chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure and cancer. |
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