Approach to death in the older emergency department patient

Title: Approach to death in the older emergency department patient
Creator: Arendts, Glenn; Carpenter, Christopher R.; Hullick, Carolyn; Burkett, Ellen; Nagaraj, Guruprasad; Rogers, Ian R.
Relation: Emergency Medicine Australasia Vol. 28, Issue 6, p. 730-734
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.12678
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: A total of 70% of older patients present to ED at least once in the last 12 months of their life, with maximal attendance rates in their final weeks and days. End-of-life planning and care are skills that ED physicians employ everyday; however, the quality of this care is highly variable. Furthermore, ED clinicians have been shown to find end-of-life communication and ethical issues around death and dying difficult, and most of us can readily describe our involvement in the distressing deaths of vulnerable older people. How can we improve our quality of end-of-life care?
Subject: death; dying; palliative care; end-of-life care; emergency departments; older patients
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327986
Identifier: uon:25788
Identifier: ISSN:1742-6731
Language: eng
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