Palliative medicine
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Palliative medicine · Oct 2018
Palliative care in the emergency department: A systematic literature qualitative review and thematic synthesis.
Despite a fast-paced environment, the emergency clinician has a duty to meet the palliative patient's needs. Despite suggested models and interventions, this remains challenging in practice. ⋯ In the included studies, provision of emergency palliative care is a necessary purpose of the emergency department. Failure to recognise this, gain the necessary skills or change to systems better suited to its delivery perpetuates poor implementation of palliative care in this environment.