ILIVE Project Volunteer study. Developing international consensus for a European Core Curriculum for hospital end-of-life-care volunteer services, to train volunteers to support patients in the last weeks of life: A Delphi study.
Tamsin McGlincheyStephen R MasonRuthmarijke SmedingAnne GoosensenInmaculada Ruiz-TorrerasDagny Renata Faksvåg HaugenMiša BakanJohn E EllershawPublished in: Palliative medicine (2021)
Key items for volunteer training were agreed alongside items for implementation to embed the end-of-life-care volunteer service within the hospital. Recommendations for further research included in-depth assessment of the implementation and experiences of end-of-life-care volunteer services. The developed European Core Curriculum can be adapted to fit local cultural and organisational contexts.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- quality improvement
- primary care
- mental health
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- medical students
- clinical practice
- optical coherence tomography
- high resolution
- peritoneal dialysis
- adverse drug
- prognostic factors
- acute care
- patient reported outcomes
- drug induced