End-of-life care quality remains a problem -- nurses may be a solution

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) describes the quality of end of life care in nearly 500 US hospitals, utilizing nearly 13,000 bedside nurses as informants of quality. The study has been published online first. It will also be in a future issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news