Health Care Quality in End-of-Life Care: Promoting Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit

Rebecca Aslakson; Peter J. Pronovost

doi:10.1016/j.anclin.2010.11.001

Health Care Quality in End-of-Life Care: Promoting Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit

Rebecca Aslakson, Peter J. Pronovost

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Abstract

Seminal articles published in the late 1990s instigated not only an intense interest in health care quality but also a new era of research into quality end-of-life care, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs). ICUs can improve health care quality at the end of life by better using palliative care services and palliative care-related principles. This article details how the interest in health care quality has spurred a similar interest in end-of-life and palliative care in ICUs, defines palliative care and describes how it improves health care quality, and highlights barriers to the incorporation of palliative care in ICUs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	111-122
Number of pages	12
Journal	Anesthesiology clinics
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anclin.2010.11.001
State	Published - Mar 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

End-of-life care
Health care quality
Health care quality defects
Intensive care unit
Palliative care

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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