Publications by authors named "Lucy Nicholson"
Article Synopsis
- The pandemic has increased the workload for hospital palliative care providers, highlighting the lack of data on specific end-of-life needs for COVID-19 patients.
- A study evaluated 434 COVID-19 deaths across five hospitals, revealing that the majority of patients were over 70 years old and many had contracted the virus from the community.
- The findings suggest that while most patients' dying status was recognized, improved advance care planning and quicker access to symptom management could enhance care quality and potentially optimize hospice resources.
Falls have been identified as a problem in frail patient populations, but their risk factors have not been studied prospectively in the hospice setting. We calculated fall rates in three hospices in the Yorkshire region, identified risk factors for falls based on previous studies in elderly patients, and then carried out a prospective study of inpatients in two of these hospices. We compared these risk factors in patients who subsequently fell with patients that did not fall during the study period.
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