International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
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Int J Qual Health Care · Feb 2016
Patients' and families' perspectives of patient safety at the end of life: a video-reflexive ethnography study.
The aim of this study was to investigate patients' and families' perspectives of safety and quality in the setting of a life-limiting illness. ⋯ Current approaches to patient safety do not address fully the needs of dying patients and their families. Patients and their families regard poor communication with and by health professionals to be harmful in and of itself.
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Int J Qual Health Care · Feb 2016
ICU physicians are unable to accurately predict length of stay at admission: a prospective study.
To evaluate the accuracy of prediction of intensive care unit length of stay made by physicians at patient admission. ⋯ The intensive care unit length of stay prediction in these oncological intensive care units is inaccurate and, ideally, should not be made at admission.