What is it about?
This paper has information gained from a review of previously published research articles, all focused on bad deaths to try to understand what a bad death is.
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Why is it important?
Bad deaths need to be avoided, but as many as 1/4 are seen as bad by family members or nurses and other caregivers.
Perspectives
Unrelieved pain was found to be the most common reason for people to think a bad death happened. Many other reasons exist as well, so it is important to plan how to have a good death and how to avoid a bad death. It may be that dying at home is best, and it may be that pain and other symptoms need a home care nurse to help or a palliative care team.
donna wilson
University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: A scoping research literature review to assess the state of existing evidence on the “bad” death, Palliative & Supportive Care, June 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1478951517000530.
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