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Table 4 Proforma questions

From: What works in ‘real life’ to facilitate home deaths and fewer hospital admissions for those at end of life?: results from a realist evaluation of new palliative care services in two English counties

1

How is it supposed to work?

2

How does it actually work?

3

What helps to make it work?

4

What makes it more difficult?

5

What would make it work better?

6

What prompts someone to use it?

7

Does it duplicate something else that’s already there?

8

What are the positive impacts?

9

What’s its impact on the evaluation outcomes of:

 

  a. Co-ordinated care

 

  b. Patient dying in place of choice?

 

  c. Hospital usage (ie admissions, A&E)

10

What are the unintended consequences?

11

What do patients/family carers think about it?

12

What else do we still want to know?

13

Any other comments?