Quality indicators for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24792433
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Clinical nursing
Research Institution	Yamaguchi University
Principal Investigator	TATSUNO Junko 山口大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 講師 (90403667)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords	終末期ケア / 集中治療 / 家族 / ICU
Outline of Final Research Achievements	In the first report, in order to clarify whether the medical staffs in the critical care are seeing how the end-of-life care, I have conducted a survey using a questionnaire. In the Result, the medical staffs are recognized that palliative care is necessary to improve the quality of the end-of-life care in ICU. In part 2, I went a survey of recognizing of family “good death”. Recognition of family about "good death", it was that communication can take up to the last moment, patient does not pain, appearance does not change, and can take care until the last moment.