Multimorbid and dying patients
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Non-participant observation of 5 health care professionals for 3 working days each (February to April 2022) / Conduction of 25 semi-structured guided interviews with 25 palliative care profes
Sponsors
Ruhr Universität Bochum - Medizinische Fakultät
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Health care professionals: Collaboration in a multiprofessional care team within the framework of outpatient palliative care. Enrollment in the palliative care contract. Primary care physicians and primary care internists. Health insurance routine data analyses: deceased persons over 18 years of age insured with BARMER in the years 2016 to 2019. Patients and relatives: ability to give consent and signed consent form. Presence of palliative care or that of a relative in patients and relatives.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Refusal to participate. Lack of capacity to give consent. Lack of understanding of the German language. Children and adolescents under 18 years.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Subjectively perceived quality of care of outpatient palliative care in the geographical area of Westphalia-Lippe. Conducting a total of 50 interviews from June to December 2022 (7 months). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Evaluation and discussion of the initial findings from the interviews using focus group discussions with health care professionals between October and December 2022 (3 months). | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAnastasia Suslow
Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Medizinische Fakultät
Outcome results
None listed