Facilitators and barriers of implementing end-of-life care volunteering in a hospital in five European countries: the iLIVE study.

Background: End-of-life (EoL) care volunteers in hospitals are a novel approach to support patients and their close ones. The iLIVE Volunteer Study supported hospital volunteer coordinators from five European countries to design and implement an EoL care volunteer service on general wards in their hospitals. This study aimed to identify and explore barriers and facilitators to the implementation of EoL care volunteer services in the five hospitals.

[Emergency admissions from nursing homes to hospital at the end of life].

Background: Admissions from nursing homes to hospital at the end of life have not been previously studied in Norway. The goal of this project was to document acute admissions to a Norwegian hospital for patients who died within 48 hours after hospitalization.

Material And Methods: This study is based on information recorded in patient charts for admissions to Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital, Bergen in the period 1.