Learning spiritual care in Dutch hospitals:the impact on healthcare of patients in palliative trajectories

November 2017 saw the publication of the Guideline Spiritual Care 2.0 for the daily practice of palliative care. The Guideline defines how caregivers should interpret 'attention for the spirituality of patients (and their proxies) with a life-threatening disease'. For the implementation of a guideline, training is a crucial first step. In the practice-building study reported in this dissertation we investigated whether a short training programme could effect enough improvement. In a multicentre trial executed in nine top-tier clinical hospitals, in wards where patients were treated in both cur... Mehr ...