Improving primary palliative care in Scotland: lessons from a mixed methods study
Conclusions:
The DES helped more patients with long-term conditions (LTC) receive generalist palliative care. Approaching generalist palliative care as anticipatory care could facilitate communication between GPs and patients/families and remove some barriers to early identification of palliative care needs. Improvement of information technology and use of identification tools like the SPICT™ may improve professionals’ communication with each other and help may make identification and management of patients easier.
Source: BMC Family Practice - Category: Primary Care Authors: Bruce MasonSusan BuckinghamAnne FinucanePeter HutchisonMarilyn KendallHazel McCutcheonLorna PorteousScott Murray Source Type: research
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