Wednesday 29 June 2016

Education and training to enhance end-of-life care for nursing home staff: a systematic literature review

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2016 June 21
Sally Anstey, Tom Powell, Bernadette Coles, Rachel Hale, Dinah Gould

Education is thought to be the most important way of overcoming the difficulties of providing good end of life care in nursing homes.  In this review, the authors found that the methodological quality of the the research was poor and that there is an urgent need to design educational interventions that could potentially improve end of life care in this setting.