Conditions of Palliative Home Care: The Case of Family Physicians in Switzerland
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Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2015
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Primary Health Care
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DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
5
Ausgabe / Nummer
1
Seiten / Dauer
1-5
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Taylor & Francis
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Abtretungsempfänger:in
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Zusammenfassung
Family physicians (FPs) play a key role in the treatment and care for terminally ill men and women. However, little is known about the conditions and challenges of FPs services in this domain. Aim of this article is to identify, how FPs can be supported in palliative home care in Switzerland by the availability of guidelines and advance directives, community-based palliative care structures, education and training, as well as remuneration of palliative home care services. Case studies in three Swiss cantons, namely Lucerne (LU), Vaud (VD), and Ticino (TI) are the basis of the following investigation. They not only represent French, Italian and German language regions but differ considerably with respect to the history of palliative care. Within and between cantons documents, questionnaires and expert interviews are analyzed thematically with the help of content-analysis. The results illustrate considerable shortcomings with respect to the backing of FPs palliative home care services. The availability and use of guidelines as well as advance directives is rather small in general practice, and FPs care and treatment at the end of life is only marginally supported by ambulant care structures, especially in rural areas. Also the coordination of services and collaboration between specialists and generalists is poorly developed. Furthermore FPs possibilities to acquire competencies in palliative care are strongly limited, and palliative home care provided by FPs is poorly financed. The results draw a rather bleak picture with respect to the support of FPs palliative home care services in Switzerland today. Though considerable steps towards implementing palliative care have been made in recent years in general, conditions for FPs medical services have to get improvedstrongly. Major efforts have to be made to foster the recognition and implementation throughout Switzerland.
Schlagwörter
Fachgebiet (DDC)
150 - Psychologie
Veranstaltung
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Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
0281-3432
1502-7724
1502-7724
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Lizenz
Zitation
ALVARADO, Vanessa und Brigitte LIEBIG, 2015. Conditions of Palliative Home Care: The Case of Family Physicians in Switzerland. Primary Health Care. 2015. Bd. 5, Nr. 1, S. 1–5. DOI 10.4172/2167-1079.1000180. Verfügbar unter: http://hdl.handle.net/11654/12151