PURPOSE: To compare team assessments of end-of-life communication in three European
countries, and to identify factors associated with problematic communication. PATIENTS …

Effective pain management is a critical patient care goal mandated by numerous health care
organizations. There remains great opportunity to improve pain management across all sites …

Background. An area of sociological neglect exists in issues surrounding end-of-life medical
care. Medical researchers have recently recommended the use of social, organizational and …

This study begins with a mystery: the support of physician-assisted suicide by egalitarian
liberals, in direct opposition to many groups of the disadvantaged that liberals otherwise …

This retrospective descriptive study was designed to answer the following research
questions: To what extent has the proportion of completed health care proxies (HCP) …

The death of a child has tremendous impact on a caregiver. Even when prognosis is poor
and death appears imminent, care of the dying child typically focuses on achieving cure …

The mission of critical care has been likened to the eternal quest for balance: balance
between the doable and the achievable; equipoise between the unquenchable desire to …