Objective. The aim of this systematic review is to identify the perceived factors hindering or
facilitating GPs in engaging in advance care planning (ACP) with their patients about care at …

Background: There is increasing demand for primary care practitioners to play a key role in
palliative care delivery. Given this, it is important to understand their perceptions of the …

Background The long-term and often lifelong relationship of general practitioners (GPs) with
their patients is considered to make them the ideal initiators of advance care planning …

Objective The increasing complexity in healthcare delivery might impede the achievement of
continuity of care, being defined as 'one patient experiencing care over time as coherent and …

Background Advance care planning (ACP) supports patients in identifying and documenting
their preferences and timely discussing them with their relatives and healthcare …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of the present study is to explore the role of the general practitioners,
family physicians and primary care physicians (GP) in the provision of follow-up cancer care …

Importance The Institute of Medicine recently called for systematic improvements in clinician-
led conversations about goals, values, and care preferences for patients with serious and …

Aims and objectives To explore how community nurses experience the collaboration with
general practitioners and specialist palliative home care team nurses in palliative home care …

Context Continuity of care is important at improving the patient experience and reducing
unnecessary hospitalizations when transitioning across care settings, especially at the end …