title: What is a good death? Health care professionals' narrations on end-of-life care.
abstract: The present study explores how health professionals evaluate care at the end of life and what they consider to be a good death. We conducted four focus groups with 37 health professionals and used a grounded theory-based approach to analyze the transcripts of the discussions. A lack of organization, training, formalized procedures, and communication with dying persons and their families emerged. Difficulty in defining a good death derived from the ethical dilemmas that involved places to die, palliative care, and end-of-life decision making.
authors: a Department of General Psychology , University of Padova , Padova , Italy.
authors: Sabrina
authors: S
authors: Cipolletta
authors: Nadia
authors: N
authors: Oprandi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards