• Nurs Stand · Jul 2013

    Letter

    End of liverpool care pathway is unjustified and unwarranted.

    • Bríd Hehir.
    • Nurs Stand. 2013 Jul 31;27(48):32.

    AbstractI am disappointed that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient is being phased out (News and Analysis July 24). I have seen this so-called 'pathway to death' used in practice and it was one of the few end of life care programmes that I supported. In my experience, clinicians and families also favoured it because it worked.

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