Impact, challenges and limits of inpatient palliative care consultations - perspectives of requesting and conducting physicians

• Main Authors: Anja Coym (Author), Karin Oechsle (Author), Alena Kanitz (Author), Nora Puls (Author), David Blum (Author), Carsten Bokemeyer (Author), Anneke Ullrich (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Inpatient palliative care consultation (IPCC) teams have been established to improve care for patients with specialist palliative care (PC) needs throughout all hospital departments. The objective is to explore physicians' perceptions on the impact of IPCC, its triggers, cha...