Co-designing Community Out-of-hours Palliative Care Services: A systematic literature search and review

C Low, P Namasivayam, T Barnett - Palliative Medicine, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In order to provide responsive, individualised and personalised care, there is
now greater engagement with patients, families and carers in designing health services. Out …

Electronic palliative care coordination systems (EPaCCS): a systematic review

J Leniz, A Weil, IJ Higginson… - BMJ supportive & …, 2020 - spcare.bmj.com
Objectives To systematically search, evaluate and report the state of the science of
electronic palliative care coordination systems (EPaCCS). Methods We searched CINAHL …

Providing end-of-life care in general practice: findings of a national GP questionnaire survey

S Mitchell, J Loew, C Millington-Sanders… - British Journal of General …, 2016 - bjgp.org
Background With increasing numbers of people living with complex life-limiting
multimorbidity in the community, consideration must be given to improving the organisation …

Crash course in EPaCCS (Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems): 8 years of successes and failures in patient data sharing to learn from

M Petrova, J Riley, J Abel, S Barclay - BMJ supportive & palliative …, 2018 - spcare.bmj.com
Background Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS) are England's pre-
eminent initiative in enabling advance care planning and improved communication and …

Emergency department visits at the end of life of patients with terminal cancer: pattern, causes, and avoidability

SA Alsirafy, AA Raheem… - American Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Frequent emergency department visits (EDVs) by patients with terminal cancer indicates
aggressive care. The pattern and causes of EDVs in 154 patients with terminal cancer were …

How is community based 'out-of-hours' care provided to patients with advanced illness near the end of life: A systematic review of care provision

AM Firth, CP Lin, DH Yi, J Goodrich… - Palliative …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Deaths in the community are increasing. However, community palliative care
out-of-hours is variable. We lack detailed understanding of how care is provided out-of …

A systematic review of the use of the electronic health record for patient identification, communication, and clinical support in palliative care

RA Bush, A Pérez, T Baum, C Etland… - JAMIA open, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Globally, healthcare systems are using the electronic health record (EHR) and
elements of clinical decision support (CDS) to facilitate palliative care (PC). Examination of …

[HTML][HTML] Emergency department use by terminally ill patients: a systematic review

JP Amado-Tineo, T Oscanoa-Espinoza… - Journal of pain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context Terminally ill patients (TIP) frequently visit the emergency department (ED), but the
prevalence of these visits is unclear. Objective To determine the prevalence of TIP visiting …

Advance care planning in primary care: a retrospective medical record study among patients with different illness trajectories

YAC Bekker, AF Suntjens, Y Engels, H Schers… - BMC Palliative Care, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) enables physicians to align healthcare
with patients' wishes, reduces burdensome life-prolonging medical interventions, and …

Electronic palliative care coordinating systems (EPaCCS) may not facilitate home deaths: a mixed methods evaluation of end of life care in two English counties

L Wye, G Lasseter, B Simmonds… - Journal of Research …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Electronic palliative care coordination systems (EPaCCS) detail preferred place of death
across health and voluntary sector boundaries. Quantitative studies suggest that individuals …