ArticleBMJ open quality2019
Improving quality in hospital end-of-life care: honest communication, compassion and empathy.
Article in BMJ open quality, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Healthcare Professionals' Advice to Guide End-Of-Life Care Education Delivery in Hospitals: A Qualitative Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Experiences of End-of-Life Care Among Medical Staff in Acute Care Hospitals: A Qualitative Study.Journal of hospice and palliative care · 2026Article
- Developing nursing approaches across the chronic illness trajectory: a grounded theory study of care from diagnosis to end-of-life in Western Amhara, Ethiopia.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Organizational models and patient-reported outcomes for palliative care across five tertiary hospitals in Nigeria: An environmental scan.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- "Holding back my own emotions": Evaluation of an online education module in pediatric end-of-life care.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2024Article
- Compassionate care of nurses for the elderly admitted to the COVID-19 wards in teaching hospitals of southern Iran.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Teaching empathy and compassion to healthcare providers in palliative care: a scoping review.Ecancermedicalscience · 2024Review
- End-of-life Care in the Intesive Care Unit and Nursing Roles in Communicating with Families.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2023Article
- Teams and continuity of end-of-life care in hospitals: managing differences of opinion.BMJ open quality · 2022Article
- Discordance and concordance on perception of quality care at end of life between older patients, caregivers and clinicians: a scoping review.European geriatric medicine · 2022Article
- What is a compassionate response in the emergency department? Learner evaluation of an End-of-Life Essentials online education module.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2021Article
- Evaluation of an End-of-Life Essentials Online Education Module on Chronic Complex Illness End-of-Life Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals: Practice Change Reported by Health Professionals Following Online Education.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: With over half of expected deaths occurring in acute hospitals, and a workforce not trained to care for them, good quality end-of-life care in these settings is hard to achieve. The Methods: The modules were developed by a palliative care educator with the support of a peer review group and were piloted with 35 health professionals. Pre-post module evaluation data were collected and during a 10-month period from 2016 to 2017 a total of 5181 individuals registered for the project accessing one or more of the six modules. The data from 3201 free-text responses to the post hoc practice change question have been analysed, and themes generated. Findings: Five themes are derived from the data: communication, emotional insight, professional mindset, person-centred care and professional practice. Conclusion: Learners who have completed End of Life Essentials have shared the ways they state they can change their practice tomorrow which may well be appreciated as a clinical response to the work by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care in leading and coordinating national improvements in quality and safety in healthcare in Australia. While intent cannot guarantee practice change, theory on intention-behaviour relations indicate that intentions have a strong association with behaviour. This indicates that the modules have the ability to influence end-of-life care in acute hospitals.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.