Effectiveness of the palliative care 'Availability, Current issues and Anticipation' (ACA) communication training programme for general practitioners on patient outcomes: A controlled trial

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1036-1045

  Slort, Willemjan ^a   Blankenstein, Annette H ^a   Schweitzer, Bart P M ^a   Knol, Dirk L ^a   Van Der Horst, Henriëtte E ^a   Aaronson, Neil K ^b   Deliens, Luc ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Communication; Controlled clinical trial; Education medical continuing; Family practice; Outcome assessment; Outcome measurement; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVAILABILITY, CURRENT ISSUES AND ANTICIPATION SCALE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EDUCATION PROGRAM; EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE CORE 15 PALLATIVE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE OUTCOME SCALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE III; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REST AND PEACE SCALE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CONTROL GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84906995319     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216314538302     Document Type: Article

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