缓和医疗
医学
介绍
护理部
医疗补助
家庭医学
定性研究
人口
医疗保健
社会科学
环境卫生
社会学
经济
经济增长
作者
Deborah Hoe,Yu-Hsuan Wang,Anna Rahman,Susan Enguídanos
标识
DOI:10.1177/10499091221131973
摘要
Multiple studies demonstrate most consumers do not know about palliative care. And, since January 2018, California’s Medi-Cal Managed Care patients have been eligible for palliative care services under Senate Bill 1004 (SB 1004). Yet, the uptake of palliative care services was underwhelming. The purpose of this study was to explore patient-centered barriers to palliative care. We recruited 27 adult Medicaid managed care patients from community-based sites in Los Angeles and conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews. Each participant was asked questions to elicit their knowledge about, and perspectives on, palliative care as well as their preferred communication approaches for receiving a referral to palliative care. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. We used a grounded theory approach to guide our analysis of primary themes. Our findings indicated that the barriers to palliative care referrals among this population included lack of knowledge about palliative care and available services; the reliance on, and trust in, primary care physicians for information; language and cultural barriers; housing instability; and patient believing they are neither old enough nor sick enough to need palliative care. These findings emphasize the critical role primary care physicians play in advocating for low-income patients and the necessity for culturally sensitive education about palliative care. Promoting knowledge and understanding of palliative care among both primary care physicians and consumers is critical to ensuring access to care.
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