Assigned nurses and a professional relationship: a qualitative study of COPD patients’ perspective on a new palliative outpatient structure named CAPTAIN

Abstract Background Little is known of how to organize non-malign palliative care, and existing knowledge show that patients with COPD live with unmet palliative needs and low quality of life. With the intent to improve palliative care for patients with COPD, we changed the structure of our outpatie...

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Main Authors: D. G. Bove, M. O. Jellington, M. Lavesen, K. Marså, S. F. Herling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12904-019-0410-0