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Recognising and managing dying patients in the acute hospital setting: can we do better?
- Source :
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Internal Medicine Journal . Jan2019, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p119-122. 4p. 2 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Healthcare professionals have limited formal end‐of‐life care training despite the large proportion of hospital deaths. A retrospective review of 201 acute hospital deaths revealed 166 (82.6%) had documentation to suggest the patient was dying but this was performed late with a median time between documentation and death of 0.84 days. Furthermore, 132 (66%) patients received an intervention in the final 48 h of life. This highlights the need to improve the recognition and management of dying patients in acute hospitals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14440903
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Internal Medicine Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134278631
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.14177