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Issues in end-of-life care: family practice faculty perceptions.

S J Farber1, T R Egnew, J L Herman-Bertsch

  • 1Tacoma Family Medicine, Washington 98405-4272, USA. sfarber@u.washington.edu

The Journal of Family Practice
|July 31, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Improving end-of-life care involves addressing traditional medical aspects and exploring patient-provider relationships and personal meaning. Family practice faculty play a key role in enhancing quality care for dying patients and their families.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Palliative Care
  • Family Medicine

Background:

  • Growing aging population necessitates improved end-of-life care.
  • Family practice faculty are crucial for teaching and modeling quality end-of-life care.
  • Current end-of-life care discussions often overlook key relational and personal aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore faculty perspectives on key elements of quality end-of-life care.
  • To identify areas for improvement in end-of-life care education and practice.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted interviews with 32 family practice faculty members across multiple residency programs.
  • Utilized a multi-stage qualitative approach involving coding, validity checks, and focus groups.
  • Themes were iteratively developed and refined through successive research phases.

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Main Results:

  • Identified key themes in end-of-life care: consensus building, treatment planning, care system mobilization, interpersonal dynamics, and personal domain issues.
  • Faculty emphasized traditional medical concerns alongside relational and personal aspects.

Conclusions:

  • Quality end-of-life care requires integrating traditional medical approaches with deeper attention to patient-provider-family relationships.
  • Opportunities exist to innovate by focusing on personal meaning and the subjective experience of dying.
  • Further research and educational strategies are needed to address these less-explored areas.