Physicians’ understandings and experience of advance care planning in Norwegian nursing homes: a qualitative study
Liv Ødbehr,
Reidun Hov,
Harald Sanaker
et al.
Abstract:Background
Advance care planning is a way of facilitating conversations with patients about future health care, values, and preferences at end of life. Nursing home physicians have the medical responsibility and the main obligation to facilitate planned meetings with patients. Although there has been a great deal of focus on establishing advance care planning in Norwegian nursing homes, it has yet to be widely implemented. Stated reasons are that the work routines in a nursing home do not inclu… Show more
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