Berivan Yildiz, Agnes van der Heide, Misa Bakan, Grethe Skorpen Iversen, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Tamsin McGlinchey, Ruthmarijke Smeding, John Ellershaw, Claudia Fischer, Judit Simon, Eva Vibora-Martin, Inmaculada Ruiz-Torreras, Anne Goossensen
BACKGROUND: End-of-life (EoL) care volunteers in hospitals are a novel approach to support patients and their close ones. The iLIVE Volunteer Study supported hospital volunteer coordinators from five European countries to design and implement an EoL care volunteer service on general wards in their hospitals. This study aimed to identify and explore barriers and facilitators to the implementation of EoL care volunteer services in the five hospitals. METHODS: Volunteer coordinators (VCs) from the Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Slovenia (SI), Spain (ES) and United Kingdom (UK) participated in a focus group interview and subsequent in-depth one-to-one interviews...
April 2, 2024: BMC Palliative Care