Offering older hospitalised patients the choice to die in their preferred place: Table 1
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Offering older hospitalised patients the choice to die in their preferred place.
BACKGROUND A significant proportion of older people state a preference to die at home. However, the vast majority of people in hospital recognised as dying subsequently die there. OBJECTIVES To identify the proportion of older people dying in hospital where the possibility of ending life elsewhere was explored. To identify factors that could support hospital staff to enable patients' wishes t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0032-5473,1469-0756
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-131161