• Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am · Sep 2015

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    Priorities for Evaluating Palliative Care Outcomes in Intensive Care Units.

    • Marie Bakitas, J Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Arif Kamal, and Jennifer M Maguire.
    • School of Nursing, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, NB 2M019C, 1701 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA. Electronic address: mbakitas@uab.edu.
    • Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2015 Sep 1; 27 (3): 395-411.

    AbstractDefining the quality of intensive care unit (ICU) care when patients are dying is challenging. Palliative care has been recommended to improve outcomes of dying ICU patients; however, traditional ICU quality indicators do not always align with palliative care. Evidence suggests that some aspects of ICU care improve when palliative care is integrated; however, consensus is lacking concerning the outcomes that should be measured. Overcoming challenges to measuring palliative care will require consensus development and rigorous research on the best way to evaluate ICU palliative care services. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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