Barriers for Adult Patients to Access Palliative Care in Hospitals

Hospital inpatients face multiple barriers to accessing palliative care. Strategies to address these barriers need to take into account ...

To review the current evidence on barriers that impair, delay, or prohibit access to palliative care for adult hospital inpatients.

Barriers for Adult Patients to Access Palliative Care in Hospitals

To review the current evidence on barriers that impair, delay, or prohibit access to palliative care for adult hospital inpatients. Design. A ...

Barriers to Access to Palliative Care - PMC - NCBI

Reluctance to accept a referral for specialist palliative care on the part of the patient and family can vary from one culture to another, but there are common ...

Barriers for Adult Patients to Access Palliative Care in Hospitals - DOI

This systematic review provides evidence that access to palliative care for hospitalized patients may be hindered or delayed by health-related factors.

Understanding barriers and facilitators to palliative and end-of-life ...

Palliative care provision should be driven by high quality research evidence. However, there are barriers to conducting research.

Barriers to accessing palliative care: A review of the literature

Previous studies have reported many barriers to accessing the palliative care use, such as patient and family reluctance, 13 fear, 14 ...

Barriers and facilitators in the provision of palliative care in adult ...

Nurses often feel uninvolved in the treatment plan for dying patients, simply carrying out actions discussed and decided only by doctors and ...

Barriers and facilitators that hospital clinicians perceive to discuss ...

... patients' VWN to improve appropriate palliative care in hospitals. ... care to adult patients in the palliative phase. - Studies with ...

The Five Barriers to Accessing Palliative Care - Remington Report

Palliative care programs in hospitals are often stretched to capacity because of staffing constraints and are obligated to give priority to the ...

identifying perceived barriers and facilitators in access to palliative ...

Participants perceived that often patients' and families' own attitudes, values and beliefs around palliative care serve as a barrier to its ...

Palliative care - World Health Organization (WHO)

lack of awareness among policy-makers, health professionals and the public about what palliative care is, and the benefits it can offer patients ...

Barriers to providing palliative care for older people in acute hospitals

The effect of age on referral to and use of specialist palliative care services in adult cancer patients: a systematic review. Age and Ageing (2006) 35: 469-.

Barriers to palliative and hospice care utilization in older adults with ...

Lack of communication with care providers is also a barrier of using palliative or hospice care. The factors identified in this review provide ...

Barriers to Effective Communication about Advance Care Planning ...

Some respondents noted greater challenges with ACP when patients have a lack of cognitive ability or a lack of social support, so adults are not ...

Palliative Care Challenges and Solutions in Rural U.S. Communities

In a 2022-2023 survey of rural hospitals, more than a third (37.3%) reported that accessing PC services was somewhat or very difficult for patients in their ...

Understanding the Barriers to Introducing Early Palliative Care for ...

Several studies have also identified patient- and family-related barriers: reluctance to accept referral due to patient/family misinformation or the idea that ...

Palliative Care: Benefits, Barriers, and Best Practices - AAFP

A lack of physician comfort with end-of-life conversations, including the fear of depriving patients of hope, can also create a barrier to ...

Barriers to providing palliative care for older people in acute hospitals

Results: participants identified various barriers to palliative care provision for older people, including attitudinal differences to the care of older people, ...

Barriers to palliative care for advanced dementia: a scoping review

Lack of access to palliative care was identified in our review as the primary barrier to implementing palliative care for people with dementia. Lack of access ...