Barriers faced by doctors to referpatients with terminal illness to palliative care service in a non-oncology setting:A survey
Not Applicable
Completed
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/12/048339
- Lead Sponsor
- A
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
Doctors working inNephrology, Neurology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology,
Rheumatology, Respiratory medicine, Haematology and Community Medicine at KEMH.
? Those who are willing to give consent
Exclusion Criteria
Other speciality not dealing with palliative care patients
Pediatric and neonatology as perceived barriers may be different in this
population.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To understand reasons for not <br/ ><br>referring patients to Palliative care services. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: baseline
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 2) If aware about palliative care service, to understand reasons for not <br/ ><br>referring patients to PC services. <br/ ><br>3) To suggest measures to overcome the barriers to improve PC services in <br/ ><br>non oncology settings.Timepoint: Single time point