While effective general practitioner (GP)–patient communication is required for the provision
of good palliative care, barriers and facilitators for this communication are largely unknown …

Objective Encountering dying patients with implicit existential questions requires the nurses
to have positive and comfortable attitude to talking about existential issues. This paper …

Background Effective communication is considered to be essential for the delivery of high-
quality care. Communication in palliative care may be particularly difficult, and there is still …

To improve the quality of end-of-life care, general practitioner (GP) awareness of where their
patients prefer to die is important. To examine GP awareness of patients' preferred place of …

Health literacy is a concept that is frequently applied to the patient's ability to find and
comprehend health information. However, recent literature has included the skill of the …

Objective: The current study assessed the attitude toward end of life (EOL) care among
nurses working in Kuwait hospitals. Material and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional …

Objective: General practitioners (GPs) play an integral role in addressing the psychological
needs of palliative care patients and their families. This qualitative study investigated …

PRINCIPLES: Advance directives are seen as an important tool for documenting the wishes
of patients who are no longer competent to make decisions in regards to their medical care …

There is a general perception held by health care practitioners based in hospices, palliative
care services and general healthcare services that society is reluctant to talk about dying …

Background: End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying
patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often under-explored in African settings …