Written survey on recently deceased patients in germany and switzerland: how do general practitioners see their role?

BMC Health Services Research
Rieke SchnakenbergLukas Radbruch

Abstract

General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in end-of-life care due to their proximity to the patient's dwelling-place and their contact to relatives and other care providers. In order to get a better understanding of the role which the GP sees him- or herself as playing in end-of-life care and which care their dying patients get, we conducted this written survey. It asked questions about the most recently deceased patient of each physician. The questionnaire was sent to 1,201 GPs in southern North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) and the Canton of Bern (Switzerland). Response rate was 27.5% (n = 330). The average age of responding physicians was 54.5 years (range: 34-76; standard derivation: 7.4), 68 % of them were male and 45% worked alone in their practice. Primary outcome measures of this observational study are the characteristics of recently deceased patients as well as their care and the involvement of other professional caregivers. Almost half of the most recently deceased patients had cancer. Only 3 to 16% of all deceased suffered from severe levels of pain, nausea, dyspnea or emesis. More than 80% of the doctors considered themselves to be an indispensable part of their patient's end-of-life care. Almost 90% of the d...Continue Reading

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