The authors highlighted the benefits of Version 12 of the pathway.EdmondsConsultantPollyConsultantBurmanConsultantRachelConsultantPrenticeConsultantWendyConsultantEBSCO_AspBmj British Medical JournalEdmonds P, Burman R, Prentice W: End of life care in the acute hospital setting. BMJ 2009;339:b5048....
In June 2014, the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People publishedOne Chance to Get it Right. This nationally accepted guidance replaces previous end-of-life care pathways such as the Liverpool Care Pathway and outlines how dying patients should be managed irrespective of setting. ...
Inpatient transfer to a care home for end-of-life care: What are the views and experiences of patients and their relatives? A systematic review and narrati... Background:Transfers from hospital or ‘hospice palliative care units’ to care homes for end-of-life care are an increasingly common...
1 The intentions of such orders are to prevent suffering and promote comfort, quality of life, and dignity.2 Pediatric palliative care programs routinely broach the topic with parents (and older patients) of the goals of further medical care and whether to pursue all possible interventions or ...
"Decisions to involve palliative care or initiate a comfort care pathway is often left very late, often in the last 48 hours of life." The researchers found a complex range of factors contribute to suboptimal end-of-life care, including failure to identify patients in their last months of li...
As such, acute hospital teams, including those based in intensive care, accident and emergency units or outpatient clinics, must understand the factors that shape good end-of-life care. As well as improving the care provided, understanding that end-of-life care is the responsibility of all ...
The ED also is the admission pathway for most hospitalized patients. Therefore, optimizing end-of-life care could not only improve the ED environment itself but also avert hospital admission and in-hospital death by building outpatient or home options. ED practitioners and systems of care should ...
PC and hospice leaders need to educate themselves and their hospital administrators about the extent to which these mortality rates take end-of-life care ... JB Cassel,AB Jones,DE Meier,... - 《Journal of Pain & Symptom Management》 被引量: 41发表: 2010年 Changing the conversation in Cali...
This article focuses on the hospice care being provided at Hospice of Eastern Maine. It discusses the hurdle being faced by the team at the facility with regards to hospice care, the protocol on qualifications for hospice care in the U.S., a study on the quality of life of patients at ...
In Brody’s view, there is no better time to discuss these issues than the present, particularly since the Israel-Hamas War has impacted people’s feelings about end-of-life issues.