What does it take to deliver brilliant home-based palliative care? Using Positive Organisational Scholarship and Video Reflexive Ethnography to explore the complexities of palliative care at home
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This episode features\\xa0Dr\\xa0Ann Dadich\\xa0(Western Sydney University, Austrailia)
Specialist home-based palliative care can improve symptom management and quality of life and prevent hospitalisation at the end-of-life.\\xa0There is significant variation in\\xa0how home-based palliative care is delivered, even within similar jurisdictions.\\xa0The clinical practices and contextual factors that enable exemplary palliative care are\\xa0not well understood.\\xa0The study identified some of the characteristics that enable brilliant home-based palliative care \\u2013 notably: anticipatory aptitude and action; a\\xa0weave of commitment among different individuals, within and beyond a palliative care service; flexible adaptability; and team capacity-building.\\xa0Using the combined\\xa0methodology of positive organisational scholarship in healthcare and video-reflexive ethnography, this study also revealed the importance of context in delivering\\xa0brilliant home-based palliative care.\\xa0The aforesaid conditions can be adapted for use within other services, particularly those committed to brilliant palliative care.\\xa0Despite the contributions of this study, policies are required to guide and sustain brilliant home-based palliative care across different settings.
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Full paper available from:\\xa0https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269216318807835
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If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu:\\xa0anwosu@liverpool.ac.uk