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

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• Keywords: 終末期ケア / 集中治療 / 家族

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.

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