Palliative care integration for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Identifying essential components using participatory action research.
Tanja Fusi-SchmidhauserKatherine FroggattNancy J PrestonPublished in: Palliative medicine (2021)
The new integrated palliative care model in advanced COPD includes essential elements with a focus on patients, healthcare professionals and care delivery. Further research on testing this model in clinical practice, service development, implementation processes and possible outcomes, including evaluation of the financial impact of integrated palliative care is necessary to foster this care approach across all possible settings.
Keyphrases
- palliative care
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- advanced cancer
- lung function
- healthcare
- end stage renal disease
- clinical practice
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- primary care
- mental health
- prognostic factors
- type diabetes
- cystic fibrosis
- metabolic syndrome
- patient reported outcomes
- skeletal muscle
- air pollution