Doctors' and nurses' views and experience of transferring patients from critical care home to die: A qualitative exploratory study

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 354-362

  Coombs, Maureen ^a,b   Long Sutehall, Tracy ^b   Darlington, Anne Sophie ^b   Richardson, Alison ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical care; doctors and nurses; end of life care; transfer home

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DYING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84925645688     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216314560208     Document Type: Article

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