Exploring access to end of life care for ethnic minorities with end stage kidney disease through recruitment in action research

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wilkinson, Emma ^a   Randhawa, Gurch ^a   Brown, Edwina ^b   Da Silva Gane, Maria ^c   Stoves, John ^d   Warwick, Graham ^e   Akhtar, Tahira ^d   Magee, Regina ^b   Sharman, Sue ^e   Farrington, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Action research; Communication; End of life care; End stage kidney disease; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE BARRIER; MALE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; SOUTH ASIAN; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; ASIA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; STANDARDS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA, WESTERN; AWARENESS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84978972785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-016-0128-1     Document Type: Article

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