ArticleEmergency medicine international2012
A Literature Review on Care at the End-of-Life in the Emergency Department.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- [Healthcare professionals' perceptions and confrontation at patients' end-of-life in emergency departments: A qualitative systematic review].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2019Pooled it
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- Quality of palliative and end-of-life care: a quantitative study of temporal trends and differences according to illness trajectories in Quebec (Canada).BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Perspectives towards End-of-Life Care in the Emergency Department of Tertiary Public Hospitals-A Qualitative Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Death and End-of-Life Care in Emergency Departments in the US.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Concept Analysis of End-of-Life Care.Journal of caring sciences · 2022Review
- Relationship between End-of-Life Care Stress, Death Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy of Clinical Nurses in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Differences in Characteristics, Hospital Care, and Outcomes between Acute Critically Ill Emergency Department Patients Receiving Palliative Care and Usual Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Observational
- Ethical considerations at the end-of-life care.SAGE open medicine · 2021Review
- A Real-Time Early Warning System for Monitoring Inpatient Mortality Risk: Prospective Study Using Electronic Medical Record Data.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- End-of-Life Care Challenges from Staff Viewpoints in Emergency Departments: Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Ceilings of treatment: a qualitative study in the emergency department.BMC emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Palliative care in the emergency department: an educational investigation and intervention.BMC palliative care · 2018Article
- Admission to Intensive Care for Palliative Care or Potential Organ Donation: Demographics, Circumstances, Outcomes, and Resource Use.Critical care medicine · 2017Article
- Futile Treatment-A Review.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2017Review
- Index to Predict In-hospital Mortality in Older Adults after Non-traumatic Emergency Department Intubations.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2017Article
- Factors influencing communication and decision-making about life-sustaining technology during serious illness: a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2016Article
- Real-time prediction of mortality, readmission, and length of stay using electronic health record data.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2016Article
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Abstract
The hospitalisation and management of patients at the end-of-life by emergency medical services is presenting a challenge to our society as the majority of people approaching death explicitly state that they want to die at home and the transition from acute care to palliation is difficult. In addition, the escalating costs of providing care at the end-of-life in acute hospitals are unsustainable. Hospitals in general and emergency departments in particular cannot always provide the best care for patients approaching end-of-life. The main objectives of this paper are to review the existing literature in order to assess the evidence for managing patients dying in the emergency department, and to identify areas of improvement such as supporting different models of care and evaluating those models with health services research. The paper identified six main areas where there is lack of research and/or suboptimal policy implementation. These include uncertainty of treatment in the emergency department; quality of life issues, costs, ethical and social issues, interaction between ED and other health services, and strategies for out of hospital care. The paper concludes with some areas for policy development and future research.
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