How effective are volunteers at supporting people in their last year of life? A pragmatic randomised wait-list trial in palliative care (ELSA)

BACKGROUND: Clinical care alone at the end of life is unlikely to meet all needs. Volunteers are a key resource, acceptable to patients, but there is no evidence on care outcomes. This study aimed to determine whether support from a social action volunteer service is better than usual care at improv...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC Med
Hauptverfasser: Walshe, Catherine, Dodd, Steven, Hill, Matt, Ockenden, Nick, Payne, Sheila, Preston, Nancy, Perez Algorta, Guillermo
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5146890/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27931214
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0746-8
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