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The effectiveness of the Liverpool care pathway in improving end of life care for dying cancer patients in hospital. A cluster randomised trial

BACKGROUND: Most cancer patients still die in hospital, mainly in medical wards. Many studies in different countries have shown the poor quality of end-of-life care delivery in hospitals. The Program "Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient" (LCP), developed in the UK to transfer the...

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Autores principales: Costantini, Massimo, Ottonelli, Simona, Canavacci, Laura, Pellegrini, Fabio, Beccaro, Monica
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3040703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21261949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-13