Barriers to advance care planning in cancer, heart failure and dementia patients: a focus group study on general practitioners' views and experiences.

Barriers to advance care planning in cancer, heart failure and dementia patients: a focus group study on general practitioners' views and experiences.

<h4>Background</h4>The long-term and often lifelong relationship of general practitioners (GPs) with their patients is considered to make them the ideal initiators of advance care planning (ACP). However, in general the incidence of ACP discussions is low and ACP seems to occur more ofte...

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Main Authors: Aline De Vleminck, Koen Pardon, Kim Beernaert, Reginald Deschepper, Dirk Houttekier, Chantal Van Audenhove, Luc Deliens, Robert Vander Stichele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24465450/?tool=EBI

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