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Early identification of and proactive palliative care for patients in general practice, incentive and methods of a randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Primary Care, November 2011
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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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BMC Primary Care, November 2011
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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 159 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 34 21%
Researcher 18 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 10%
Student > Bachelor 13 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 8%
Other 38 23%
Unknown 33 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 77 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 16%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Psychology 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 41 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 08 December 2011.
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#15,168,964
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from BMC Primary Care
#1,381
of 2,359 outputs
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#95,967
of 153,748 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Primary Care
#20
of 37 outputs
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