Development of Palliative and End of Life Care: The Current Situation in Saudi Arabia

As part of the health care reforms and transformation project of the Vision 2030, a group of expert healthcare professionals was tasked with the development of a model of care for patients with life-shortening illnesses in Saudi Arabia. This Care Design Group (CDG 1-3) held a series of workshops and...

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Autores principales: Alshammaray, Sami, Duraisamy, Balaji, Albalawi, Yousef, Ratnapalan, Savithiri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6541163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186996
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4319
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description As part of the health care reforms and transformation project of the Vision 2030, a group of expert healthcare professionals was tasked with the development of a model of care for patients with life-shortening illnesses in Saudi Arabia. This Care Design Group (CDG 1-3) held a series of workshops and conducted surveys and online discussions to systematically document and develop a model of care. These interventions were aimed at achieving a national standard of care. This short article is a description of this very successful process of development.
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spelling pubmed-65411632019-06-11 Development of Palliative and End of Life Care: The Current Situation in Saudi Arabia Alshammaray, Sami Duraisamy, Balaji Albalawi, Yousef Ratnapalan, Savithiri Cureus Medical Education As part of the health care reforms and transformation project of the Vision 2030, a group of expert healthcare professionals was tasked with the development of a model of care for patients with life-shortening illnesses in Saudi Arabia. This Care Design Group (CDG 1-3) held a series of workshops and conducted surveys and online discussions to systematically document and develop a model of care. These interventions were aimed at achieving a national standard of care. This short article is a description of this very successful process of development. Cureus 2019-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6541163/ /pubmed/31186996 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4319 Text en Copyright © 2019, Alshammaray et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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