European Journal of Palliative Care, 2014, Vol/iss 21/5 (219-21)
Increasingly in both malignant and non-malignant disease, palliative care is being offered alongside active therapy so the interface between acute and specialist palliative care services is likely to be less clear-cut. In this article the authors ask if hospice patients benefit from transfers to the acute hospital and consider how to achieve a balance between curative and palliative care? They present and discuss the results of a survey conducted at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice looking at patient transfers to the acute hospital.
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