Abstract Background The Coordinated Transitional Care (CTraC) program is a telephone‐
based, nurse‐driven program shown to decrease readmissions. The aim of this project was …

Nursing homes (NHs) are an important site of death for residents with advanced dementia.
Few studies have explored the experiences of NH staff about providing end-of-life care for …

In the last decades emergency physicians have observed a steep increase in the
emergency department (ED) admissions of palliative care patients who rely on the hospital …

Abstract Objective The “surprise question”(“Would you be surprised if this patient died in the
next year?”) has been shown to be predictive of 12-month mortality in multiple populations …

Objective: The initiation of palliative care (PC) in the emergency department (ED) is effective
in improving the quality of life for seriously ill patients. This study aimed to evaluate the …

Objectives: The surprise question,“Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next 12
months?” is a tool to identify patients at high risk of death in the next year. Especially in the …

Background and aim Although the challenges of integrating palliative care practices across
care settings are real and well recognised, to date little is known about palliative care …

Background Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is a board-certified subspecialty within
emergency medicine (EM), but prior studies have shown that EM residents do not receive …

Background Physicians' recognition of end of life (EOL) has key influences on patients''good
death'. Aim We aimed to study physicians' attitude toward EOL, and to analyze the …

The Surprise Question is an effective tool to identify patients in need of palliative care. But it
is unknown whether the Surprise Question can effectively predict adverse outcomes in …