Practically speaking: Emergency medicine and the palliative care movement
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Practically speaking: emergency medicine and the palliative care movement.
Daily experience in the ED suggests that patients suffering from chronic life-limiting illnesses are all too often caught in a revolving door of emergency care that wastes resources and fails to properly address their stage of disease and goals of care. With regularity, these patients cycle from acute episode to acute episode – from the ED to a hospital bed and home again – without being offere...
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1Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA 2Associate Professor of Gerontology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA *Corresponding author Cecile N. Yancu, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology Department of Behavioral Sciences Winston-Salem State Uni...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Australasia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1742-6731
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01531.x