<p>Participant characteristics.</p>

Belgian university hospitals collected qualitative interview data from September 2022 to July 2024. The dataset includes perspectives from 16 patients, 5 informal caregivers, 12 phase I staff, 6 oncologists, 5 palliative care specialists, and 4 general practitioners on quality of life and palliative care integration. It was authored by Frederick Daenen and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patient and caregiver perspectives on quality of life support based on interview themes mentioned in the description.
• Studying barriers to palliative care integration based on reported misconceptions and communication gaps.
• Identifying strategies for improving care coordination based on participant suggestions for routine conversations and provider communication.

Strengths

• Includes multi-perspective views from 48 total participants across six distinct stakeholder groups.
• Data collection spanned nearly two years (September 2022 to July 2024) across three university hospitals.
• The dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (9.5 KB), indicating limited scope and likely summary-level data.

Provenance

Source

Frederick Daenen via figshare.

Collection Method

Multi-perspective qualitative interview study using convenience and snowball sampling, analyzed with qualitative content analysis.

Time Range

September 2022 to July 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 17:39:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Belgium (three university hospitals)