Hospice transfer for patients at the end of life: part 1
| Autor: | Michael Tapley, Bashir El-Mahmoudi, David Jolley, Ann Marie Daniels, Loren Pilling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Patient Transfer
Service (business) Terminal Care Joint working business.industry Palliative Care Hospices Terminally ill General Medicine Continuity of Patient Care United Kingdom Unit (housing) Nursing Intervention (counseling) Medicine Medical assessment General hospital business End-of-life care |
| Zdroj: | Nursing Standard. 28:42-48 |
| ISSN: | 2047-9018 0029-6570 |
| DOI: | 10.7748/ns2013.10.28.8.42.e7756 |
| Popis: | This is the first of two articles about improving end of life care for terminally ill patients in a district general hospital. The article describes a hospice transfer service developed by joint working between staff at a medical assessment unit and a hospice to improve end of life care for patients who otherwise might die in the medical assessment unit. It discusses the care received by patients in both settings, and the practicalities of offering patients the option of rapid transfer to the hospice for end of life care, where the emphasis of care is on palliation not acute intervention. The second article explores the ethical, legal and practical considerations involved in developing the service. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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