Fragebogen „Care of the Dying Evaluation“ (CODE™): Qualitative Analyse von Freitextäußerungen Nahestehender von im Krankenhaus verstorbener Patienten

Hospital end-of-life care: families' free-text notes.

BackgroundPalliative care strives to improve quality of life for patients with incurable diseases. This approach includes adequate support of the patients’ loved ones. Consequently, loved ones have personal experiences of providing end-of-life care for their next. This is a resource for information and may help to investigate the loved ones’ perspectives on need for improvements.AimTo identify further quality aspects considered important by loved ones to improve the quality of care at the end of life as an addition to quantitative results from the Care of the Dying Evaluation for the German-speaking area (CODE-GER) questionnaire.DesignWithin the validation study of the questionnaire ‘Care o…