Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study

Abstract

Our findings challenge current assumptions underpinning provision of end of life care for people with COPD. The policy focus on identifying a time point for transition to palliative care has little resonance for people with COPD or their clinicians and is counter productive if it distracts from early phased introduction of supportive care. Careful assessment of possible supportive and palliative care needs should be triggered at key disease milestones along a lifetime journey with COPD, in particular after hospital admission for an exacerbation.

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MedicineQualitative researchCOPDPerspective (graphical)NarrativeFocus groupPopulationDiseaseGerontologyPsychiatrySociology

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Year: 2011
Type: article
Volume: 342
Issue: jan24 1
Pages: d142-d142
Citations: 335
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                                    Hilary Pinnock, 
                                
                                    Marilyn Kendall, 
                                
                                    Scott A Murray
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2011). 
                            Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study. 
                            BMJ
                            , 342
                            (jan24 1)
                            , d142-d142.
                            https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d142
                        

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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d142