Emergency department presentations in palliative care patients

A partnership between the Sheffield St Luke’s Hospice and our Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) theme brought together the clinical specialities of palliative care and urgent and emergency care to understand how patients at the end of their life accessed and used UEC services.  

The project created and analysed a linked routine dataset comprising community palliative care contacts and emergency department and hospital admissions. Analysis identified and followed patients known to palliative care who accessed the emergency department.  The study led to recommendations to consider the UEC care needs of this patient group.

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For access to a paper detailing the findings of this work go to the following: https://spcare.bmj.com/content/early/2022/03/28/bmjspcare-2022-003563?msclkid=9b73680db3ec11ec8898c097304434fe 

For more information on this project, contact Paul Taylor at drpaulmtaylor@gmail.com