Challenges to Exploring the Patient Perspective in Palliative Care Conversations: A Qualitative Study Among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Heart Failure Patients and Their Health Care Professionals.
Annet Olde Wolsink-van HarlingenLeontine Groen-van de VenKris VissersJeroen HasselaarJan JukemaMadeleen UitdehaagPublished in: Palliative medicine reports (2024)
Patients and HCPs seem to share the same aim: patients want to be known and understood and HCPs want to know and understand the patient as a unique individual. At the same time, they seem unable to personalize their conversations. To move beyond this impasse patients and HCPs need to take steps and be empowered to do so.