Dying in hospital: Qualitative study among caregivers of terminally ill patients who are transferred to the emergency department.

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Date publication

avril 2018

Journal

Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983)

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr AUBRY Régis


Tous les auteurs :
Pillet M, Chassagne A, Aubry R

Résumé

Most people in France die in the hospital, even though a majority would like to die at home. These end-of-life hospital admissions sometimes occur in the emergency setting, in the hours preceding death.

Mots clés

Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Attitude to Death, Caregivers, psychology, Emergency Service, Hospital, statistics & numerical data, Female, France, epidemiology, Hospital Mortality, Hospitalization, statistics & numerical data, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Motivation, Patient Transfer, statistics & numerical data, Terminal Care, psychology, Terminally Ill, psychology

Référence

Presse Med. 2018 Apr 2;: