Background: In most developed countries, acute hospitals play a significant role in palliative
care provision and are the setting in which most people die. They are often the setting where …

Changing global demography is resulting in older people presenting to emergency
departments (EDs) in greater numbers than ever before. They present with greater urgency …

Background: There is a dearth of evidence on the proportion of the hospital population at
any one time, that is in the last year of life, and therefore on how hospital policies and …

Background: Screening to identify hospital inpatients with a short life expectancy may be a
way to improve care towards the end of life. The Gold Standards Framework Prognostic …

Background Nurses play a vital role in the care of people with advanced life-limiting
illnesses, so palliative and end of life care is an essential skill nurses need to learn. Despite …

Background: The acute hospital plays a significant role in caring for people with a life-
limiting illness. Most research to date has focused exclusively upon the negative aspects of …

Background: Given the context of ageing populations globally, there are a growing number
of patients with chronic conditions, some of whom are in the final stages of their disease …

Objective: To describe the prevalence, characteristics, long-term outcomes and goals-of-
care discussions of patients with objective indicators of life-limiting illnesses (LLIs) referred …

Objectives People with serious life-limiting disease benefit from advance care planning, but
require active identification. This study applied the Gold Standards Framework Proactive …

Background Existing evidence suggest the emergence of palliative care (PC) services in the
emergency department (ED). To gain insight into the nature of these services and provide …