… -of-life care pathway in the acute and hospice care setting from January 1996 to April 2010.
… hospital from October 2008–December 2008. 155 hospitals from 114 acute hospital trusts (n …

… To control for patient condition on admission to the long-term care hospital, eligible
discharges include only those with a previous acute hospital stay. Because of a change in …

… numbers of people dying in acute hospitals in Ireland [6], the … life care from relatives’
perspective. The aim of this study was to ascertain the quality of end-of-life care in the acute hospital …

… Hospitals have gradually changed their role beginning in the early 1950s. Up until then,
apart from surgical procedures, the care delivered by a general practitioner was not much …

… -of-life care (EoLC) within the acute hospital setting. Severe financial pressures in the NHS
and social care, … , have raised concerns about the quality of EoLC in hospitals. The creation of …

… Establishing a culture that respects patients' end-of-life care preferences will support the
design of care processes towards sustaining ACP as a practice within the acute-care system. …

… This implies that a higher quality of end-of-life care provision in the acute hospital setting
needs to be ensured, preferably by improving communication skills. At the same time …

… acute hospital setting. However, published research about end-of-life care for older patients
in the acute hospital … where hospital care might be differently organized and care processes …

… were reporting that many patients in hospitals did not require acute hospital care. The
government also recognized the importance of such an assessment of patients in Manitoba …

… autonomy to uphold patients' health-care choices. Advance Directives (AD) designed to
improve endof-life care are poorly taken up and acute hospitals are generally not geared for the …