Mapping hospice patients' perception and verbal communication of end-of-life needs: an exploratory mixed methods inquiry |
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Authors: | Bruce L Arnold |
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Institution: | (1) Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary, T2N 1N4 Calgary, Canada |
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Abstract: | Background Comprehensive "Total Pain" assessments of patients' end-of-life needs are critical for providing improved patient-clinician
communication, assessing needs, and offering high quality palliative care. However, patients' needs-based research methodologies
and findings remain highly diverse with their lack of consensus preventing optimum needs assessments and care planning. Mixed-methods
is an underused yet robust "patient-based" approach for reported lived experiences to map both the incidence and prevalence
of what patients perceive as important end of life needs. |
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