Improving End-of-Life Care

Improving end-of-life care for children.

Improving quality of care at the end of life.

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Improving the quality of end-of-life care.

Rural Emergency Nurses' Suggestions for Improving End-of-Life Care.

Many patient visits to emergency departments result in the patient dying or being pronounced dead on arrival. The numbers of deaths in emergency departments are likely to increase as a significant portion of the U.S. population ages. Consequently, emergency nurses face many obstacles to providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care when death occurs. The purpose of this study was to identify suggest...

Defining priorities for improving end-of-life care in Canada.

BACKGROUND High-quality end-of-life care should be the right of every Canadian. The objective of this study was to identify aspects of end-of-life care that are high in priority as targets for improvement using feedback elicited from patients and their families. METHODS We conducted a multicentre, cross-sectional survey involving patients with advanced, life-limiting illnesses and their famil...