Can a "good death" be made better?: A preliminary evaluation of a patient-centred quality improvement strategy for severely ill in-patients

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-8

  Powis, Jeff ^a   Etchells, Edward ^a   Martin, Douglas K ^b   MacRae, Susan K ^b   Singer, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

End of life care; Patient centred; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN;

EID: 4544243007     PISSN: 1472684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-3-1     Document Type: Article

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