The objective of this paper is to analyze the literature concerning nurses′ roles and
strategies in EOL decision making in acute care environments, synthesize the findings, and …

Background Communication between families and providers in the ICU affects patient and
family outcomes and use of health-care resources. Recent research studies have tested …

Objective: Little is known about the effectiveness of advance care planning in the United
Kingdom, although policy documents recommend that it should be available to all those with …

The purpose of this study was to describe Korean nurses' knowledge of hospice and
palliative care and to identify the effect of an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium …

Rationale: Previous research has shown that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) desire conversations about end-of-life wishes. However, most clinicians do …

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act1 makes substantial expansions of health
insurance, it will probably do little to slow rising health care expenditures. As an early …

Background: Despite the advent of palliative care, the quality of dying in the hospital remains
poor. Differences in quality of end-of-life practice between hospital wards are well known in …

Management of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is mainly limited to
supportive therapy, with dialysis as one of the main components. Whether or not to offer …

After a brief discussion of early-and mid-nineteenth-century hospitals, this article focuses on
the years between 1880 and 1939, when those facilities underwent a major transformation …

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