The qualitative research of the referral criteria of hospice care

VernacularTitle:我国临终关怀准入标准界定的质性研究
Author: Ling-Jun ZHOU ¹ ; Jing CUI ; Wee BEE ; Ji-Jun ZHAO
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1. 第二军医大学
Keywords: Hospice Care; Referral; Focus Group Discussion; Qualitative Research
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2010;16(11):1245-1248
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To know the practitioners, managers and researchers' ideas on referral of hospice care. Methods Focus group discussion was used to collect the data, and the thematic analysis was employed to do the data analysis. Results Six themes including prognosis based referral criteria combining need based referral criteria, no response to the curative treatment, shortening the period of prognostic survival time,focus on cancer patient, detailing the evaluation index, taking specialist palliative care service as the transfer point were found. Conclusions The referral criteria should be made on the basis of prognosis. With the development of hospice care, it could be revised further.