Family voices from the bedside: National Audit of Care at the End of Life (England and Wales).

IF 2 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI:10.1136/spcare-2024-005287

Mary Miller

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Abstract

Introduction: The National Audit of Care at the End of Life reports the quality of care provided to people dying in hospital. This paper reports the bereavement (quality) survey data about the families' view of care provided to the patient and support provided to the family.

Methods: Anonymised summary data were retrieved from 'Key findings for patients and carers on the quality of end of life care in acute and community hospitals' reports 2019-2022 and the summary report 2018.

Results: 9089 respondents provided feedback about care received. In more than 70% of the cases, care provided to the dying person was described as good, excellent or outstanding. At least 66% of respondents reported that care provided to them was good, excellent or outstanding. At least 76% of respondents felt that staff communicated sensitively, and more than 70% felt they were happy with the level of involvement in decisions about the patient's care.

Conclusion: The voices of dying patients and those at the bedside are critical in helping understand and improve care at the end of life. Co-ordinating our ask and focusing on agreed key outcomes are important to achieve the pragmatic principle of 'one death one review'.

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BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)

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4.60

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7.40%

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170

期刊介绍： Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance. We hold an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care research and we are able to call on expertise to critique the whole range of methodologies within the subject, including those working in transitional research, clinical trials, epidemiology, behavioural sciences, ethics and health service research. Articles with relevance to clinical practice and clinical service development will be considered for publication. In an international context, many different categories of clinician and healthcare workers do clinical work associated with palliative medicine, specialist or generalist palliative care, supportive care, psychosocial-oncology and end of life care. We wish to engage many specialties, not only those traditionally associated with supportive and palliative care. We hope to extend the readership to doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and researchers in medical and surgical specialties, including but not limited to cardiology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, paediatrics, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, renal medicine, respiratory medicine.