Inter-professional communication in palliative care: general practitioners and specialists in Switzerland

However, coordination of services and collaboration in this field has been often evaluated as insufficient [3]. In particular, the limits of information sharing have been pointed out as important barriers to the quality of inter-professional collaboration [4]. Requested are better instruments for knowledge transfer among carers [5] in order to avoid negative consequences of coordination failures, such as unnecessary hospital admissions, problems with symptom control and the incapability to uptake the whole range of patient needs [6,7].