TY - JOUR T1 - High proportion of elderly patients who are admitted to hospital are entering the last year of their lives JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/eb-2016-102448 SP - ebnurs-2016-102448 AU - Chris Isles Y1 - 2016/11/08 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/08/eb-2016-102448.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Pocock LV, Ives A, Pring A, et al. Factors associated with hospital deaths in the oldest old: a cross-sectional study. Age Ageing 2016;45:372–6.This paper supports the view that a high proportion of elderly patients who are admitted to hospital are entering the last year of their lives.Clinicians might make more use of the opportunity provided by such hospital admission to discuss end-of-life care.Future research might focus on the associations between cause of death, comorbidity, deprivation and place of death in those who do not … ER -