Paramedics delivering palliative and end-of-life care in community-based settings: A systematic integrative review with thematic synthesis

CONCLUSIONS: Paramedics are a highly skilled workforce capable of helping to deliver palliative and end-of-life care to people in their homes and reducing avoidable hospital admissions, particularly for palliative emergencies. Future research should focus on investigating the efficacy of palliative care clinical practice guideline implementation for paramedics, understanding other healthcare professionals' perspectives, and undertaking health economic evaluations of targeted interventions.PMID:34852696 | DOI:10.1177/02692163211059342
Source: Palliative Medicine - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research