Integrating Palliative Care by Virtue of Diplomacy; A Cross-sectional Group Interview Study of the Roles and Attitudes of Palliative Care Professionals to Further Integrate Palliative Care in Europe.
Jelle L P van GurpJeroen van WijngaardenSheila Alison PayneLukas RadbruchKaren van BeekÁgnes CsikósMarlieke Herder-van der EerdenJeroen HasselaaPublished in: International journal of health policy and management (2020)
Diplomacy appears to be essential to palliative care providers for realizing trust and what can be defined as normative integration between palliative and curative and/or chronic medicine. It requires a practical wisdom about the culture and goals of regular care, as well as keeping a middle road between assimilating with values in regular medicine and standing up for the basic values central to palliative care.