From comfort zone to front-line care: perspectives and reflections of community pharmacists entering home-based palliative care

BMC Palliat Care. 2024 Jan 3;23(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12904-023-01332-z.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Palliative care requires a multidisciplinary team to assist patients and their families to obtain good quality care at the end of life. Typically, community pharmacists have fewer opportunities to provide services for patients with palliative care needs than hospital pharmacists. Moreover, home-based palliative care (HBPC) by pharmacists remains low and there is a lack of research regarding HBPC provided by pharmacists. Therefore, this study sought to understand the views and reflections of community pharmacists in the clinical frontline providing palliative home services.METHODS: Purposive sampling was used to recruit six community pharmacists for…
Origen: From comfort zone to front-line care: perspectives and reflections of community pharmacists entering home-based palliative care – PubMed