Individually Tailored Palliative Care in a Rural Region: A Representative Chart Survey and Physicians’ Experiences with Integrated Care

Table 4

Care provided by next of kin ().

		%
Family members helped with the following
Oral medications	66	72.5
Positioning	54	59.3
Providing liquids	43	47.3
Symptom control	40	44.0
Nutritional support	39	42.9
Urine and stool management	38	41.8
Injecting subcutaneous medications	33	36.3
Administrative arrangements	16	17.6
Bowel clearing	15	16.5
Physiotherapy	13	14.3
Wound care	13	14.3
Supply of oxygen/inhalation	8	8.8
Music therapy	7	7.7
Feeding tube management	5	5.5
Intravenous nutrition	3	3.3
Coordination of feeding tube management	3	3.3
Changing of urinary catheter	3	3.3
Art therapy	2	2.2
Dialysis	2	2.2
Next of kin involved in care	81	89.0
≥5 aspects of care	59	64.8

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