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General Practitioners' Attitudes To Palliative Care : A Regional Perspective, Richelle Lee-Steere
General Practitioners' Attitudes To Palliative Care : A Regional Perspective, Richelle Lee-Steere
Theses : Honours
The study explores regional general practitioners' attitudes to palliative care through semi- structured interviewing using a qualitative methodology. Attitudes to palliative care were examined using the general practitioners' accounts of their experiences and perceptions of caring for terminally ill patients. The participants were ten registered general practitioners located within the Greater Sunbury Division of General Practice in the South West of Western Australia. A semi-structured interview schedule containing ten open-ended questions was used to assess regional general practitioners' attitudes to palliative care. Examples of the research questions included: What are regional general practitioners' attitudes to palliative care? What supports are …