Context End-of-life communication in acute care settings can be challenging and many
patients and families have reported low satisfaction with those conversations. Objective To …

Background: Accessibility and quality of hospital-based palliative care in Thailand have
received scant attention. Objective: To determine the prevalence of inpatients who require in …

Background: Despite well-documented disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care, little is known
about whether patients with low health literacy (LHL) received aggressive EOL care …

Registered nurses play a critical role in delivering effective palliative and end-of-life patient
care. Previous literature has cited that registered nurses report a lack of adequate palliative …

Abstract Purpose of Project: This quality improvement project was to increase access to
palliative care services among hospitalized patients. The aim was to improve the quality of …

Method: The study was a quality improvement project, using a single-site retrospective and
prospective chart review to determine whether the use of a palliative care screening tool …

Results: A total of 34 nurses consented to participate in this quality improvement project to
address the need for a palliative care screening tool in the ICU to identify patients …

Background: Early start of palliative care improves the quality of life of eligible patients and
their relatives. However, in hospital, patients who could benefit from palliative care are often …

Palliative care (PC) is a broad philosophy of care that includes services focused on
centering and optimizing the emotional, spiritual, and practical health care concerns of …

In summary, my thesis contributes to new knowledge about pain and the relation to mental
illness. In-depth clinical epidemiological knowledge about pain and mental illness in …