Cooperating with a palliative home-care team: expectations and evaluations of GPs and district nurses

Dorthe Goldschmidt; Mogens Groenvold; Anna Thit Johnsen; Annette S Strömgren; Allan Krasnik; Lone Schmidt

doi:10.1191/0269216305pm1007oa

Cooperating with a palliative home-care team: expectations and evaluations of GPs and district nurses

Dorthe Goldschmidt, Mogens Groenvold, Anna Thit Johnsen, Annette S Strömgren, Allan Krasnik, Lone Schmidt

Department of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Palliative home-care teams often cooperate with general practitioners (GPs) and district nurses. Our aim was to evaluate a palliative home-care team from the viewpoint of GPs and district nurses.

METHODS: GPs and district nurses received questionnaires at the start of home-care and one month later. Questions focussed on benefits to patients, training issues for professionals and cooperation between the home-care team and the GP/ district nurse. A combination of closed- and open-ended questions was used.

RESULTS: Response rate was 84% (467/553). Benefits to patients were experienced by 91 %, mainly due to improvement in symptom management, 'security', and accessibility of specialists in palliative care. After one month, 57% of the participants reported to have learnt aspects of palliative care, primarily symptom control, and 89% of them found cooperation satisfactory. Dissatisfaction was caused mainly by lack of information from the home-care team to primary-care professionals.

CONCLUSION: GPs and district nurses welcomed the palliative home-care team and most experienced benefits to patients. Strengthened communication, initiated by the home-care team would enhance cooperation.

Original language	English
Journal	Palliative Medicine
Volume	19
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	241-50
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0269-2163
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1191/0269216305pm1007oa
Publication status	Published - Apr 2005

Keywords

Attitude of Health Personnel
Community Health Nursing/organization & administration
Denmark
Family Practice/organization & administration
Home Care Services/organization & administration
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Palliative Care/organization & administration
Program Evaluation
Prospective Studies
Quality of Health Care
Surveys and Questionnaires

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