Trajectories of end-of-life care in the emergency department
C Bailey, R Murphy, D Porock - Annals of emergency medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE:: The emergency department (ED) is the gateway to the hospital setting.
Despite the intentions from the end-of-life care strategy in the UK to improve care provision,
the ED has increasingly become the access site for end-of-life support. Little attention has
been given to this aspect of the work of the ED, even as the quality of end-of-life care in
hospitals has become the subject of increasing concerns. We explore end-of-life care in the
ED and provide an understanding of how care is delivered to the dying, deceased and …
Despite the intentions from the end-of-life care strategy in the UK to improve care provision,
the ED has increasingly become the access site for end-of-life support. Little attention has
been given to this aspect of the work of the ED, even as the quality of end-of-life care in
hospitals has become the subject of increasing concerns. We explore end-of-life care in the
ED and provide an understanding of how care is delivered to the dying, deceased and …