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Commentary on: Hennessy N, Neenan K, Brady V, et al. End of life in acute hospital setting—A systematic review of families' experience of spiritual care. J Clin Nurs 2020;29:1041–52.
Implications for practice and research
Communication, collaboration and facilitation are essential when providing good spiritual care.
Future research should focus on barriers and facilitators of spiritual care within the acute hospital setting.
Context
Over half of the deaths in the UK occur in acute hospital settings.1 However, compared with palliative care in hospices and palliative care settings, evidence for end-of-life care in the acute hospital setting is less consistent and developed,2 with the majority of this research focusing on the experiences of patients and healthcare providers3 rather than from a families’ perspective. Therefore, this review sought to examine families’ experiences of spiritual care at the end of life in the acute hospital setting.3
Methods
This qualitative systematic …
Footnotes
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.