Facilitating good process in primary palliative care: Does the Gold Standards Framework enable quality performance?

Family Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 486-494

  Munday, Daniel ^a   Mahmood, Kashifa ^a   Dale, Jeremy ^a   King, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

District nursing; General practice; Inter professional relations; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; GOLD STANDARD; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MANAGEMENT; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALLIATIVE NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEAMWORK; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEOPLASMS; NURSING, SUPERVISORY; OBSERVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTRIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 36348990136     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmm045     Document Type: Article

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