Intérêts d'une fiche de liaison en situation d'urgence de patients en soins palliatifs

Following palliative care - mostly terminally ill - patients led us to examine the need for a standardized medical record transmissions. To address this issue, we conducted a descriptive analytical study questionnaire asking Mayenne (France, Northwest) GP's about their need of a medical transmissions sheet - entitled “SAMU Urgences Pallia 53” - for palliative care patients. Nearly all physicians declare this sheet as important and useful. More than eighty percent of doctors who had received limited information asked to receive more element about this form. The low response rate does not allow to draw conclusions about medical practice of GPs but provides useful elements in a field largely unexplored. The positive results at 1 year of implementation in Mayenne of the form “SAMU Urgence Pallia 53” led to the current development of a similar questionnaire in the neighboring department of Maine et Loire.