United States best practice guidelines for primary palliative care in the emergency department

AJ Loffredo, GK Chan, DH Wang, R Goett… - Annals of Emergency …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing palliative care needs of emergency department (ED) patients in the United
States have motivated the development of ED primary palliative care principles. An expert …

[HTML][HTML] Older adult and family caregiver preferences for emergency department based-palliative care: An experience-based co-design study

R Wright, K Lowton, BR Hansen, P Grocott - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Older adults (> 65 years) with palliative care needs are increasingly
accessing the emergency department. Some interventions have been developed to improve …

Feasibility of a brief intervention to facilitate advance care planning conversations for patients with life-limiting illness in the emergency department

SE Pajka, MA Hasdianda, N George… - Journal of palliative …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) conversations are an important intervention to
provide care consistent with patient goals near the end of life. The emergency department …

[HTML][HTML] Data from emergency medicine palliative care access (EMPallA): a randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus …

AM Schmucker, M Flannery, J Cho, KS Goldfeld… - BMC emergency …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background The Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA) trial is a
large, multicenter, parallel, two-arm randomized controlled trial in emergency department …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of palliative care into acute care medicine

F Nauck, B Jaspers - Der Schmerz, 2021 - Springer
Palliativmedizin richtet sich an Patienten mit inkurablen onkologischen und
nichtonkologischen Erkrankungen sowie deren Angehörige mit dem Ziel, die Lebensqualität …

[HTML][HTML] Code status documentation availability and accuracy among emergency patients with end-stage disease

E Russell, AK Hall, C McKaigney, C Goldie… - Western Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods In this cross-sectional study of ED patients with end-stage disease (eg, palliative
care, metastatic malignancy, home oxygen, dialysis) conducted during purposefully sampled …

[HTML][HTML] Attitudes and educational needs of emergency doctors providing palliative and end-of-life care in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional analysis based on a self …

KH Wong, LCM Yang, KWR Woo, OF Wong… - BMC palliative …, 2021 - Springer
Background Due to the ageing population in Hong Kong, the importance and need of
palliative care and end-of-life (EOL) care are coming under the spotlight. The objectives of …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency department referral for hospice and palliative care differs among patients with different end-of-life trajectories: a retrospective cohort study

VWC Shen, C Yang, LL Lai, YJ Chen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Emergency units have been gradually recognized as important settings for palliative care
initiation, but require precise palliative care assessments. Patients with different illness …

Patient characteristics of persons dead on arrival received in a danish emergency department: a retrospective review of health records

DG Bove, N Sørensen, H Timm, SF Herling… - Journal of emergency …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction In addition to treating living patients, emergency nurses are also responsible for
receiving and caring for persons who are dead on arrival and their relatives. There is limited …

What do we know about pediatric palliative care patients consulting to the pediatric emergency department?

N Gaucher, N Humbert, F Gauvin - Pediatric Emergency Care, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of pediatric
palliative care (PPC) patients presenting to a pediatric emergency department (ED) and …