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Critical care nurse · Oct 2011
The going home initiative: getting critical care patients home with hospice.
- Paula Lusardi, Paul Jodka, Mark Stambovsky, Beth Stadnicki, Betty Babb, Danielle Plouffe, Nancy Doubleday, Zophia Pizlak, Katherine Walles, and Martin Montonye.
- Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. paula.lusardi@bhs.org
- Crit Care Nurse. 2011 Oct 1;31(5):46-57.
AbstractAlthough considerable effort is being directed at providing patients and their families with a "good death," most patients in intensive care units, if given the choice, would prefer to die at home. With little guidance from the literature, the palliative care committee of an intensive care unit developed guidelines to get patients home from the intensive care unit to die. In the past few years, the unit has transferred many patients home with hospice care, much to the delight of their families. Although several obstacles to achieving this goal exist, the unit has achieved success in a small-scale implementation of its Going Home Initiative.
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