Context Emergency department (ED) providers and policy makers are increasingly
interested in developing palliative care (PC) interventions for ED patients. Many patients in …

Person-centred approaches to care delivery have been increasingly promoted in
international policy and strategy, but despite this there is evidence of failings within …

Background Dying often occurs in hospitals and frequently in emergency rooms.
Understanding caring for critical and dying patients is necessary for quality nursing. Purpose …

Background: The extent of unmet need for palliative care in US hospitals remains largely
unknown. We conducted a multisite cross-sectional, retrospective point prevalence analysis …

Background: Hospice provides an opportunity for patients to receive care at home at the end
of life (EOL); however, approximately 25% of patients who disenroll from hospice are …

Context Emergency medicine (EM) residents perceive palliative care (PC) skills as important
and want training, yet there is a general lack of formal PC training in EM residency …

Study objective We explored physicians' perceptions of and attitudes toward triage and end-
of-life decisions for elderly critically ill patients at the emergency department (ED)–ICU …

Introduction The objective of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of
physicians and nurses with regard to loss of dignity in relation to end-of-life care in the …

While shame has historically been neglected in emotion research, there is now a large body
of research evidence by which to understand the concept and the phenomenology which …

Objective: For patients' preferences to be honored, emergency department (ED) physicians
must be able to find and use advance care planning (ACP) information in the electronic …