Recognising and managing dying patients in the acute hospital setting: can we do better?

Bharathy Gunasekaran; Caroline Scott; Kathryn Ducharlet; David Marco; Imogen Mitchell; Jennifer Weil

doi:10.1111/imj.14177

Recognising and managing dying patients in the acute hospital setting: can we do better?

Bharathy Gunasekaran^*, Caroline Scott, Kathryn Ducharlet, David Marco, Imogen Mitchell, Jennifer Weil

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Abstract

Healthcare professionals have limited formal end-of-life care training despite the large proportion of hospital deaths. A retrospective review of 201 acute hospital deaths revealed 166 (82.6%) had documentation to suggest the patient was dying but this was performed late with a median time between documentation and death of 0.84 days. Furthermore, 132 (66%) patients received an intervention in the final 48 h of life. This highlights the need to improve the recognition and management of dying patients in acute hospitals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-122
Number of pages	4
Journal	Internal Medicine Journal
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.14177
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

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