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Beyond Patient-Provider Relationships

Expanding the Roles and Boundaries of Families during Patient End-of-Life

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ID4634849
AuthorsAmber Thompson (0000-0002-0128-0089, Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, corresponding author), Rebecca L Utz (0000-0001-7734-7676, University of Utah), Rebecca Utz (Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
Year2022
Volume32
Issue11
Pages1620-1634
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10497323221111249
PMID35772971
OpenAlexW4283757851
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited58

Role conflict and strain occur when healthcare providers are required to cross boundaries, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to meet the needs of their dying patients. This research is an unobtrusive digital ethnography of a publicly accessible online forum for healthcare providers ( N = 242 posts); it explores the boundaries set by families and healthcare providers, and identifies how healthcare providers navigate and which circumstances require them to sometimes cross these professional boundaries. Results indicate that patient-and-family-centered care may not be fully achieved due to the ambiguity in the expected roles played by both families and healthcare providers during patient death and dying. Grounded in data, an expanded model of the therapeutic alliance, which includes the family, is suggested

Alliance · Ambiguity · End-of-life care · Ethnography · Grounded theory · Health care · Internet privacy · Palliative care · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Computer Science · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology

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