General practitioners' considerations when deciding whether to initiate end-of-life conversations: a qualitative study.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings enable the development of approaches to support GPs to initiate end-of-life discussions that are cognizant both of GPs' sense of responsibility for these discussions, and factors that may contribute to caution initiating them, such as anticipated patient response, cultural considerations, societal taboos, family dynamics and personal challenges to doctors. PMID: 31796956 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australian Family Physician - Category: Primary Care Authors: Tags: Fam Pract Source Type: research