Background Integrating palliative care into intensive care units (ICUs) requires involvement
of bedside nurses, who report inadequate education in palliative care. Objective To …

Objective: There are numerous challenges to successfully integrating palliative care in the
intensive care unit. Our primary goal was to describe and compare the quality of palliative …

BECAUSE OF THE SEVERITY of illness, the intensive care unit (ICU) is a setting where
death is common. Approximately 20% of all deaths in the United States occur in the ICU …

Intensive care unit (ICU) admission is common among patients approaching the end of their
lives from acute as well as chronic life-limiting conditions. ICU providers are expected to …

Supportive, or palliative, care has moved into medicine's mainstream with well-known and
studied benefits but continues to be inadequately utilized in many health care environments …

Context: With the current and projected shortage of palliative care (PC) specialists, an
integrative model of PC will be needed to meet the needs of patients in intensive care units …

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Background The Institute of Medicine's report, Dying in America, highlights the critical need
for the widespread implementation of palliative care to improve end-of-life care. 1 …

Background 15%–20% of critical care patients die during their hospital admission. This
service evaluation assesses quality of palliative care in intensive care units (ICUs) …

Because of the severity of illness, the intensive care unit (ICU) is a setting where death is
common. Approximately 20% of all deaths in the United States occur in ICUs. Although …