Palliative medicine
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Palliative medicine · Jan 2014
Randomized Controlled TrialThe Liverpool Care Pathway for cancer patients dying in hospital medical wards: a before-after cluster phase II trial of outcomes reported by family members.
Hospital is the most common place of cancer death but concerns regarding the quality of end-of-life care remain. ⋯ These results provide the first robust data collected from family members of a preliminary clinically significant improvement, in some aspects, of quality of care after the implementation of the Italian version of Liverpool Care Pathway programme. The poor effect for symptom control suggests areas for further innovation and development.