Journal of clinical nursing
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Multicenter Study
Delivering 'Gold Standards' in end-of-life care in care homes: a question of teamwork?
This paper reports findings from a study which investigated the introduction of the Gold Standards Framework for improving end-of-life care into care homes in England. ⋯ Effective teamwork appears to be a pre-requisite for successful implementation of new programmes of care. Organisations wishing to implement such programmes should assess the quality of teamwork and may need to address this first.