Calling emergency medical services for terminally ill patients: a qualitative study exploring reasons why informal caregivers make the call
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11120%2F24%3A43926535" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11120/24:43926535 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001119" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001119</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001119" target="_blank" >10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001119</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Calling emergency medical services for terminally ill patients: a qualitative study exploring reasons why informal caregivers make the call
Original language description
BACKGROUND: Although emergency medical service is focused on providing acute prehospital treatment, it is often used by terminally ill patients and their informal caregivers during the last days of patient's life. Little is known about why they decide to use the emergency medical services. STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim was to explore informal caregivers' motivation and decision-making process for calling emergency medical services for their terminally ill loved ones. METHODS: This study used a qualitative design. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews with 31 relatives of 30 patients who used the emergency medical services. Data were analyzed with NVivo software by utilizing principles of thematic analysis. RESULTS: Through the analysis, four distinct themes emerged: (1) limited availability of support from health care services; (2) insufficient planning of care; (3) decline in the health of the patient and (4) being lost and desperate. CONCLUSION: For informal caregivers, emergency medical services represented an important source of support while caring for their terminally ill loved ones due to the limited availability of other sources of help, including a lack of specialist palliative care providers. Additionally, informal caregivers had limited knowledge of the dying process and used emergency medical services for professional advice.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30221 - Critical care medicine and Emergency medicine
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Emergency Medicine
ISSN
0969-9546
e-ISSN
1473-5695
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
195-200
UT code for WoS article
001234177300018
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85191554520