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Physicians’ Views on the Usefulness and Feasibility of Identifying and Disclosing Patients’ Last Phase of Life and their Experiences with Using the Surprise Question: A Focus Group Study

2020-08-18

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<h4>Background: </h4> Accurate assessment that a patient is in the last phase of life is a prerequisite for timely initiation of palliative care in patients with a life-limiting disease, such as advanced cancer or advanced organ failure. Several palliative care quality standards recommend the surprise question to identify those patients. <h4>Methods: </h4> Physicians’ views of identifying and disclosing the last p...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-57948/v1

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