Reducing Collusion Between Family Members and Clinicians of Patients Referred to the Palliative Care Team | Zendy

James A. Low | Zendy; Sim Lai Kiow | Zendy; Norhisham Bin Main | Zendy; Koh Kim Luan | Zendy; Pang Weng Sun | Zendy; M Lim | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Reducing Collusion Between Family Members and Clinicians of Patients Referred to the Palliative Care Team

Author(s) -

James A. Low,

Sim Lai Kiow,

Norhisham Bin Main,

Koh Kim Luan,

Pang Weng Sun,

M Lim

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

the permanente journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1552-5775

pISSN - 1552-5767

DOI - 10.7812/tpp/09-058

Subject(s) - collusion , medicine , referral , family medicine , palliative care , service (business) , nursing , economics , microeconomics , economy

Collusion refers to a secret agreement made between clinicians and family members to hide the diagnosis of a serious or life-threatening illness from the patient. Our goal was to reduce the rate of collusion among the family members of patients referred to our institution's palliative care service such that 80% of patients would be aware of their diagnosis within four weeks of referral to the service. We aimed to achieve this target within six months of starting the project.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research