Issues in end-of-life care: patient, caregiver, and clinician perceptions.

Context: Review of published research indicates the need to better incorporate patient and caregiver perceptions when providing end-of-life (EOL) care. Although considerable research regarding patient and caregiver experience of EOL has been done, little research has studied patients, caregivers, and clinicians as a connected system.

Objective: To study the perceptions of patients, caregivers, and physicians who are already connected with one another in an EOL care experience.