End-of-life care in hospital: an audit of care against Australian national guidelines.

Related Articles End-of-life care in hospital: an audit of care against Australian national guidelines. Aust Health Rev. 2019 Oct;43(5):578-584 Authors: Bloomer MJ, Hutchinson AM, Botti M Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to map end-of-life care in acute hospital settings against Elements 1-5 of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s (ACSQHC) Essential Elements for Safe and High-Quality End-of-Life Care. Methods A retrospective medical record audit of deceased in-patients was conducted from 2016 at one public (n = 320) and one private (n = 132) hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Ten variables, key to end-of-life care…
Origen: End-of-life care in hospital: an audit of care against Australian national guidelines. – PubMed