Development of a Complex Intervention to Support the Use of Sedative Drugs in Specialist Palliative Care (iSedPall)

Saskia Kauzner, Manuela Schneider, Maria Heckel, Carsten Klein, Claudia Bausewein, Eva Schildmann, Jeremias Bazata, Stefanie Kolmhuber, Sabine H. Krauss, Beatrice Odierna, Constanze Rémi, Jan Schildmann, Alexander Kremling, Christian Jäger, Kerstin Ziegler, Christoph Ostgathe · 2024

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Saskia Kauzner and co-authors describe how they built a support package for the use of sedative drugs in specialist palliative care in Germany. Planned sedation can ease suffering that no other treatment relieves, and its availability comforts patients and families. Yet many staff feel unsure and uneasy when carrying it out.

The team followed a standard frame for complex health tools, with input from staff, patients, and the public. The package joins a screening tool, care steps, and training material for professionals. Extra leaflets explain the process to patients and caregivers. Staff shortages and wariness of research slowed the work. A pilot study will now test whether the package works in daily care.

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CREATORSaskia Kauzner, Manuela Schneider, Maria Heckel, Carsten Klein, Claudia Bausewein, Eva Schildmann, Jeremias Bazata, Stefanie Kolmhuber, Sabine H. Krauss, Beatrice Odierna, Constanze Rémi, Jan Schildmann, Alexander Kremling, Christian Jäger, Kerstin Ziegler, Christoph Ostgathe
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE38 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11864855

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