Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients – a systematic review protocol

Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients – a systematic review protocol

Abstract Background Even though data suggest that palliative care (PC) improves patient quality of life, caregiver burden, cost, and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, integration of PC in the ICU is far from being universally accepted. Poor understanding of what PC provides is one of the bar...

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Main Authors: Victoria Metaxa, Despina Anagnostou, Savvas Vlachos, Nishkantha Arulkumaran, Ingeborg van Dusseldorp, Sherihane Bensemmane, Rebecca Aslakson, Judy E. Davidson, Rik Gerritsen, Christiane Hartog, Randall Curtis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:Systematic Reviews
Subjects:
Palliative care
Intensive care
End-of-life care
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13643-019-1064-y

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