… Thus, the vast majority of terminally ill patients die on acute medical-surgical wards, with
little access to formalized palliative care services. Nurses working on such units are thus …

… patients die in the medical and surgical wards of a large tertiary-level university teaching
hospital in the north of Italy. Particularly, we explored how treatments and symptoms severity …

… of end-of-life care for people hospitalized in acute geriatric wards, we must first understand
how end-of-life care … geriatric wards included patients who died on the ward. For each eligible …

… Much has been written on end-of-life care in ICUs, 6 hence we focused on patients who …
One would therefore expect most patients who died in our general wards to have a DNR order, …

… In fact, the main thought of our patients was the family in their ending life. Persons with …
end-of-life, patients think more about human relationships, especially to their family. End-of-life …

… identified deficits in the end-of-life care provided in the general wards of our hospital. The …
to palliative care are required to address end-of-life needs unique to our patient population. …

… patients’ care and treatment preferences at the end of life (EOL) suggests they prefer comfort
more than life-… She told the CNS she wanted to die at home, but ward staff had not explored …

… Improvements in the end-of-life treatment in general wards can be made by comparing … to
assess quality of end-of-life treatment for dying cancer patients in general wards and the PCU …

… This paper focuses on communication between hospital staff and family carers of patients
dying on acute hospital wards, with an emphasis on the family carers’ perspective. The age at …

… patients with serious illness may have different end-of-life … model among a population of
patients with serious illness, which … -quality end-of-life care for hospitalized patients because we …