Dying in hospital: optimisation of care in the dying phase project phases [18].

Dying in hospital: optimisation of care in the dying phase project phases [18].

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Introduction. Globally, hospitals are an important place in end-of-life care and most frequent place of death in Germany (47%), but at the same time, the least preferred one—both for patients and their informal caregivers. As hospital care in the dying phase on non-palliative care wards has rarely been studied systematically, we assessed the curren...