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Home > Vol 3, No 2 (2017): Special Issue - Progress of Cancer Research in Developing Countries > Seng Beng

The ABCDE of good care: A thematic analysis on the art of caring for terminally ill patients in Malaysia

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Tan Seng Beng, Ng Jia Hui, Lau Xin Rou, Mah Zhou Lhe, Lim Ee Jane, Loh Ee Chin, Lam Chee Loong

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The first and foremost requisite of caring is to treat patients as persons, not as diseases or bed-numbers. A qualitative study was conducted to explore the perception of good care from the point of view of 13 terminally ill patients
and 8 caregiving family members of the University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The results were thematically analyzed. Five basic themes were generated: (1) Attitude, (2) Behaviour, (3) Communication, (4) Duty and (5) Environment—ABCDE. The results may provide useful insight into the art of caring.


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good care; palliative care, psychosocial; thematic analysis; Malaysia

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