Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study
Abstract Background Primary health care teams are key to the delivery of care for patients with advanced cancer during the last year of life. The Gold Standards Framework is proposed as a mechanism for coordinating and guiding identification, assessment, and support. There are still considerable var...
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| description | Abstract Background Primary health care teams are key to the delivery of care for patients with advanced cancer during the last year of life. The Gold Standards Framework is proposed as a mechanism for coordinating and guiding identification, assessment, and support. There are still considerable variations in practice despite its introduction. The aim of this qualitative study is to improve understanding of variations in practice through exploring the perspectives and experiences of members of primary health care teams involved in the care of patients with advanced cancer. Methods Qualitative, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and non-participatory observations involving 67 members of primary health care teams providing palliative care. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Results We identified distinct differences in the drivers and barriers of community advanced cancer care coordination, which relate to identification and management, and access to effective pain management, and go some way to understanding variations in practice. These include proactive identification processes, time and resource pressures, unclear roles and responsibilities, poor multidisciplinary working, and inflexible models for referral and prescribing. These provide valuable insight into how professionals work together and independently within an infrastructure that can both support and hinder the provision of effective community palliative care. Conclusions Whilst the GSF is a guide for good practice, alone it is not a mechanism for change. Rather it provides a framework for describing quality of practice that was already occurring. Consequently, there will continue to be variations in practice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b15cdcf996d34a97b01f12c3060de25d2022-12-22T00:20:43ZengBMCBMC Family Practice1471-22962018-11-0119111010.1186/s12875-018-0861-zPrimary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative studyJulia Hackett0Lucy Ziegler1Mary Godfrey2Robbie Foy3Michael I. Bennett4Martin House Research Centre, Social Policy Research Unit, University of YorkAcademic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of LeedsAcademic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal InfirmaryAcademic Unit of Primary Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of LeedsAcademic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of LeedsAbstract Background Primary health care teams are key to the delivery of care for patients with advanced cancer during the last year of life. The Gold Standards Framework is proposed as a mechanism for coordinating and guiding identification, assessment, and support. There are still considerable variations in practice despite its introduction. The aim of this qualitative study is to improve understanding of variations in practice through exploring the perspectives and experiences of members of primary health care teams involved in the care of patients with advanced cancer. Methods Qualitative, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and non-participatory observations involving 67 members of primary health care teams providing palliative care. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Results We identified distinct differences in the drivers and barriers of community advanced cancer care coordination, which relate to identification and management, and access to effective pain management, and go some way to understanding variations in practice. These include proactive identification processes, time and resource pressures, unclear roles and responsibilities, poor multidisciplinary working, and inflexible models for referral and prescribing. These provide valuable insight into how professionals work together and independently within an infrastructure that can both support and hinder the provision of effective community palliative care. Conclusions Whilst the GSF is a guide for good practice, alone it is not a mechanism for change. Rather it provides a framework for describing quality of practice that was already occurring. Consequently, there will continue to be variations in practice.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12875-018-0861-zPrimary carePalliative careGold standards frameworkQualitative researchPatient care |
| spellingShingle | Julia Hackett Lucy Ziegler Mary Godfrey Robbie Foy Michael I. Bennett Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study BMC Family Practice Primary care Palliative care Gold standards framework Qualitative research Patient care |
| title | Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study |
| title_full | Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study |
| title_short | Primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community: a qualitative study |
| title_sort | primary palliative care team perspectives on coordinating and managing people with advanced cancer in the community a qualitative study |
| topic | Primary care Palliative care Gold standards framework Qualitative research Patient care |
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