What are the views of hospital-based generalist palliative care professionals on what facilitates or hinders collaboration with in-patient specialist palliative care teams? A systematically constructed narrative synthesis

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 240-256

  Firn, Janice ^a,b   Preston, Nancy ^c   Walshe, Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attitude of health personnel; communication; integrated; interprofessional relations; Palliative care; referral and consultation

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MODEL; NARRATIVE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCINFO; SKILL; SOCIAL WORK; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRUST; WEB OF SCIENCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRUST;

EID: 84958053995     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216315615483     Document Type: Review

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