Patients’ and nurses’ perception of the Hospice-On-Wheels service in Kazakhstan: a qualitative study

Anele Bekturova, Angelika Saryan, Gulnara Kunirova · 2024

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Dying cancer patients in Kazakhstan often need care at home, across a vast and thinly peopled country. Anele Bekturova, Angelika Saryan, and Gulnara Kunirova studied one mobile hospice service in a 2024 paper. State mobile teams exist in large numbers, yet few give full specialist care at home. One charity service, Hospice-On-Wheels, does give such care under a state contract.

The study asked patients and nurses how they saw the service. It also judged whether the model could last and spread. A side aim was to show local nurses how sound interview-based research works, since the method is new to many. The charity's contract gives it more freedom than state teams enjoy. The paper weighs that freedom against quality of end-of-life care.

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CREATORAnele Bekturova, Angelika Saryan, Gulnara Kunirova
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE43 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11959122

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