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The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care, to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital ...
People might avoid discussing their end-of-life care, and often the timing and quality of these discussions can be poor. For example the conversations regarding end-of-life care between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and clinicians often occur when a person with COPD has advanced stage disease and occur at a low frequency ...
A do-not-resuscitate order (DNR), also known as Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR), Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR [3]), no code [4] [5] or allow natural death, is a medical order, written or oral depending on the jurisdiction, indicating that a person should not receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if that person's heart stops beating. [5]
The partnership was formed in 1997 by Frank Hester, [1] a computer programmer married to a GP, to create a patient-record storing system that would help GPs after witnessing his wife's "constant struggle with the lack of connectivity and integration between NHS services". [2]
End-of-life may refer to: End-of-life (product), a term used with respect to terminating the sale or support of goods and services; End-of-life care, medical care for patients with terminal illnesses or conditions that have become advanced, progressive and incurable; End of Life Vehicles Directive, European Community legislation
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A clinical pathway is a multidisciplinary management tool based on evidence-based practice for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course, in which the different tasks (interventions) by the professionals involved in the patient care are defined, optimized and sequenced either by hour (ED), day (acute care) or visit (homecare).
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.