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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand emergency medicine specialists on the provision of care at or near the end of life: A survey.
The ED is an increasingly important venue for the initiation of palliative care. We sought to characterise the opinions, experience, training and education of ED staff in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) with regard to specific aspects of palliative care in the NZ ED setting. ⋯ There is significant opportunity for quality improvement in the initiation and provision of palliative care from the ED. Attention to how departments provide pastoral care to their staff is needed.