Caring to the end?

Caring to the end? National confidential enquiry into patient outcome and death. A review of the care of patients who died in hospital within four days of admission. 2009.

Cooper, H. et al.

http://www.ncepod.org.uk/2009report2/Downloads/DAH_report.pdf

This report highlights the process of care of patients who died in acute hospitals within four days of admission. It takes a critical look at the areas where patient care might have been improved. Remediable factors have been identified in the clinical and the organisational care of these patients.