Current advance care planning practice in the Australian community: An online survey of home care package case managers and service managers Knowledge, education and training

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Sellars, Marcus ^a,b   Detering, Karen M ^a   Silvester, William ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Advance directives; Community health services; Home care services

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CASE MANAGER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE PACKAGE PROGRAM; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SERVICE MANAGER; SKILL; TRAINING; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; CASE MANAGEMENT; HOME CARE; INTERNET; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AUSTRALIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84928607340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-015-0018-y     Document Type: Article

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