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Dying well in the hospital
— the lessons of SUPPORT (the Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment) | | Corporate Author | Hastings Center |
| Journal title | Special Supplement, Hastings Center Report 25, no 6, November-December 1995 |
| Publisher | Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, NY, November-December 1995 |
| Pages | 36 pp |
| Source | The Hastings Center, Publications Department, 255 Elm Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, USA. |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Dying ; Hospital services ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment (SUPPORT) aimed to increase understanding of dying in US hospitals and to devise an intervention to promote more humane care. It involved 9,000 terminally ill patients in five teaching hospitals over a four-year period. In the first two years of the study, the various procedures and services provided to terminally ill patients were examined. The final stage of the study was intended to address the perceived shortfalls identified in the first stage. An intervention was tested by means of a two-year controlled trial involving both patients and their doctors. The unexpected findings revealed that there was little change in procedures and patients' perceptions of care following the intervention. This special supplement examines the SUPPORT findings and conclusions. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980721228 B |
| Classmark | LV: CX: LD: 3J: 7T |
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