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Advance end-of-life healthcare planning in an acute NHS hospital setting
— development and evaluation of the Expression of Healthcare Preferences (EHP) | | Author(s) | Rebekah Schiff, Rory Shaw, Nadia Raja |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 38, no 1, January 2009 |
| Pages | pp 81-85 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | In-patients ; Attitude ; Terminal care ; Rights [elderly] ; Hospital services ; Mental disorder ; Legal services [elderly] ; Evaluation ; London. |
| Annotation | The Expression of Healthcare Preferences (EHP) consists of a form and explanatory booklet to enable older patients in NHS hospitals to discuss and record end-of-life healthcare preferences. The authors evaluated the EHP with 95 patients (mean age 81; median MMSE 28) who received the EHP, 61 of whom read the EHP and 29 of these recorded their healthcare preferences in the EHP form. The form prompted end-of-life care discussions between 30 of the patients, and between 32 of these patients and "those close to them". The EHP was highly rated: on a score of 1 to 10 its was thought to be helpful (median score 8), interesting (8), informative (8) and reassuring (7), but not upsetting (1). The EHP is an end-of-life planning tool that has been shown can be used to prompt older inpatients to discuss and record their end-of-life healthcare preferences. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090212208 A |
| Classmark | LF7: DP: LV: IKR: LD: E: JV: 4C: 82L |
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