Referral of Patients with Nonmalignant Chronic Diseases to Specialist Palliative Care: A Study in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" colspan="2">Themes</td><td class="align_left">Subthemes</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">Physician related</td><td class="align_left">(i) Awareness<br/>(ii) Perception about palliative care<br/>(iii) Medical paternalism<br/>(iv) “Territorial guarding”</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">2</td><td class="align_center">Institutional factors</td><td class="align_left">(i) Policy<br/>(ii) Human resource</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">3</td><td class="align_center">Family related</td><td class="align_left">(i) Awareness and acceptability<br/>(ii) Economic soundness</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Themes and Subthemes from Transcribed Data.</div>

International Journal of Chronic Diseases

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Table 3: Referral of Patients with Nonmalignant Chronic Diseases to Specialist Palliative Care: A Study in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana 