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Title
National Audit of End-of-Life Care in Hospital in Ireland 2008/9.
Dying in Ireland an Assessment of the Quality of Care in the Last Week of Life
Subject
National Audit of end-of-life care in hospitals.
Description
A 248 page audit.
Creator
Kieran McKeown, Trutz Haase, Jonathan Pratschke, Shelagh Twomey, Helen Donovan and Feline Engling.
Publisher
Irish Hospice Foundation, The Atlantic Phlanthropies and HSE.
Alternative Title
Audit of end-of-life care
Abstract
The first ever national audit of end-of-life life care in Irish Hospitals. 43 hospitals participated in the audit; 24 acute and 19 community.
The audit reveals a picture where admissions to hospital
are typically unplanned and uncoordinated and where there is great variability in the
quality of care offered to patients with different conditions. At the same time, every
effort is made to allow patients die in a single room despite resource constraints, and
to facilitate relatives to be with the patient as much as possible right to the end.
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