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- Title
End of life clinician-family communication in ICU: a retrospective observational study - implications for nursing.
- Authors
Bloomer, Melissa; Lee, Susan; O'Connor, Margaret
- Abstract
The article offers information on the study conducted to identify practice issues, that influence end of life communication and care of patients and families in the intensive care unit (ICU). It states that the death in an ICU is often predicted for critically ill patients, and the communication with the family, which includes the involvement of nurses, is not presented properly in the medical records, therefore the role of the nurse is undermined.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; APACHE (Disease classification system); COMMUNICATION; CRITICALLY ill; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTENSIVE care units; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL personnel; MEDICAL records; SCIENTIFIC observation; PATIENTS; STATISTICAL sampling; TERMINAL care; TERMINALLY ill; SAMPLE size (Statistics); RETROSPECTIVE studies; PATIENTS' families
- Publication
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 2, p17
- ISSN
0813-0531
- Publication type
Article