Assist Sergej Kmetec, Assist Zvonka Fekonja, Sr Lect Nataša Mlinar Reljić and Assoc Prof Mateja Lorber together with Prof Brendan McCormack, Prof Arun Sigurđardóttir and Jožica Černe Kolarič prepared an article entitled Components for providing person-centered palliative healthcare, which was accepted for publication in the highest ranked journal in the field of nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies, with an impact factor of 5,837 (JCR 2020).
They concluded that person-centred palliative healthcare plays an important role in the comprehensive treatment of patients living with a non-communicable disease accompanied by disturbing symptoms. Therefore, it is necessary to raise awareness amongst healthcare professionals and especially general practitioners about the possibilities of including patients with a non-communicable disease in early person-centred palliative healthcare. There is a need to raise awareness among healthcare professionals about the possibilities of including patients with chronic non-communicable disease in early person-centred palliative care.
Article available:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020748921002583?dgcid=rss_sd_all
We congratulate the researchers of UM FZV and wish them successful scientific research work in the future as well.
