Availability of Dutch General Practitioners for After-Hours Palliative Care

Background: Continuity of care is important for palliative patients in their end of life. In the Netherlands, after-hours primary care for palliative patients is either provided by large-scale general practitioner (GP) cooperatives or GPs choose to give palliative care by themselves while they are not on duty. Aim: To examine the availability of, perceived problems by, and attitude of Dutch GPs regarding providing palliative care for their own patients outside office hours. Design and Setting: Cross-sectional observational study among 1772 GPs from 10 Dutch regions. Method: Online questionnair... Mehr ...