Background: Despite a fast-paced environment, the emergency clinician has a duty to meet
the palliative patient's needs. Despite suggested models and interventions, this remains …

Traditionally, palliative care (PC) systems focused on the needs of advanced cancer
patients, but most patients needing PC have end-stage organ diseases. Similarly, PC …

Background: Emergency department–based palliative care services are increasing, but
research to develop these services rarely includes input from emergency clinicians …

Lynn conceptualized end-of-life (EoL) care for patients with advanced chronic-progressive
illnesses as a combination of life-preserving/palliative care, the palliative aspect gradually …

Background: Identification of older adults with serious illness (life expectancy less than one
year) who may benefit from serious illness conversations or other palliative care …

Aim The aim of this integrative literature review was to explore the quality of the dying and
death experience in the Emergency Department from the perspective of staff and carers …

Background Preservation of a dying person's dignity in the emergency department (ED) is
fundamental for the patient, his/her relatives and healthcare professionals. The aim of this …

Objectives Emergency medicine (EM) physicians commonly care for patients with serious
life‐limiting illness. Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is a subspecialty pathway of EM …

Context Emergency department (ED) visits provide opportunities to empower patients to
discuss advance care planning with their outpatient clinicians, but systematically developed …

Background The emergency department (ED) is often where patients with advanced illness
(AI) present when faced with an acute deterioration in their disease. Objectives To …