ObjectivesIn palliative care, effective communication is essential to adequately meet the
needs and preferences of patients and their relatives. Effective communication includes …

Background: Continuity of care is challenging when transferring patients across palliative
care settings. These transfers are common due to the complexity of palliative care, which …

Aims and objectives To explore nurses' experiences and perspectives on discharge
collaboration when patients receiving palliative care for cancer are discharged home from …

Introduction The communication of poor prognosis from secondary to primary care helps to
ensure that patients with life-limiting illness receive appropriate, coordinated care in line with …

Objectives To improve transmural palliative care for acutely admitted older patients, the
PalliSupport transmural care pathway was developed. Implementation of this care pathway …

Background: Palliative patients often suffer from serious illness and commonly move
between care settings. As such, transfers of patients can take place between acute hospital …

Introduction The transitional period of newly graduate nurses became more stressful,
different coping mechanisms are essential. Therefore, effective coping with transition-related …

Objective For patients who are discharged to go home after a hospitalisation, timely and
adequately informing their general practitioner is important for continuity of care, especially …

Increasing numbers of people living with chronic and life-limiting diseases are actualising a
greater need for palliative care. Physicians are an important provider for identifying the need …

Background: To understand how family carers experienced the illness trajectory of their next
of kin related to transfers taken place between care settings in palliative care, their …