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End-of-Life Preparations Among LGBT Older Canadian Adults: The Missing Conversations
June 17, 2019
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Improving quality in hospital end-of-life care: honest communication, compassion and empathy

https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/8/2/e000669.abstract

With over half of expected deaths occurring in acute hospitals, and a workforce not trained to care for them, good quality end-of-life care in these settings is hard to achieve.

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For more information about the iCAN-ACP project, please contact:

Project Leader: Dr. John You jyou@mcmaster.ca

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This research is funded by Canadian Frailty Network (known previously as Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network, TVN), supported by Government of Canada through Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program.

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