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  • Inventi:hcln/18285/15
    Concordance between Experiences of Bereaved Relatives, Physicians, and Nurses with Hospital\nEnd-of-life Care: Everyone Has Their â??â??Own Truthâ??â??
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2016 : January - March
    F E Witkamp, L van Zuylen, Y Vergouwe, C C D van der Rijt, A van der Heide

    When patients die relatives and healthcare professionals may appreciate the quality of the dying phase differently, but comparisons\nare rare. In a cross-sectional study (June 2009ââ?¬â??July 2012) the experiences of bereaved relatives, physicians, and nurses concerning the\nquality of dying in a large Dutch university hospital were compared, and the relation to communication was explored.Measurements\nwere concordance on the quality of dying (QOD) (0ââ?¬â??10 scale), awareness of impending death, and end-of-life communication.\nResults. Data on all three perspectives were available for 200 patients. Concordance in general was poor. Relativesââ?¬â?¢ scores for QOD\n(median 7; IQR 5ââ?¬â??8) were lower than physicians and nursesââ?¬â?¢ (both median 7; IQR 6ââ?¬â??8) (

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    CC Compliant Citation: F. E. Witkamp, L. van Zuylen, Y. Vergouwe, C. C. D. van der Rijt, and A. van der Heide, â??Concordance between\nExperiences of Bereaved Relatives, Physicians, and Nurses with Hospital End-of-Life Care: Everyone Has Their â??Own Truthâ?,â?\nInternational Journal of Palliative Care, vol. 2015, Article ID 623890, 10 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/623890, http://\ncreativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
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