… population is and the advances in health care delivery. In Australia, two-… an acute hospital.
Whilst most of the attention regarding end-of-life care and dying has focused on palliative care …

… to the poor care of older people who end their lives in hospital, argue … care for older people
dying in acute hospitals. It discusses the role that nurses have to play in promoting better care …

… time in hospital in their final year of life, and more than half of the population die in hospital.
… when providing end-of-life care to patients in the acute hospital setting. Nine studies were …

… of death for many patients is the acute hospital, where EOL interventions are … care in acute
hospitals in the UK, highlighting how this setting contributes to the patients’ and families’ care …

… end-of-life care needs and practices in hospital. A chart review for all 1,018 persons who
died from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009 in two full-service Canadian hospitals was …

… Dying in an acute hospital is a common occurrence in developed countries across the
world. … It also refers to care provided to relatives [25]. The latter definition of end-of-life care is …

… if end-of-life care pathways are to be adopted by … life care in hospitals can be improved.
Significance of results: Organization of end-of-life care in acute hospitals is challenging, and care …

… -life (EOL) care in acute hospitals is variable and interventions to improve this care, such as
EOL care … on delivering EOL care within an acute hospital trust in the South West of England. …

… life care for patients and their families, and that the quality of end of life care in acute hospitals
… Communication is a specific aspect of care which is reported as poor [4, 7,10]. A recent …

… was to describe current acute care hospital use by terminally … and describe the last hospital
episode that ended in death for … describe hospital use patterns over the last five years of life …