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The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care , to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital setting.
Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust was one of the community health trusts created in 2012 under the Transforming Community Services programme. It provided controversial services for people at the end of their life, Liverpool Care Pathway later nationally discredited and withdrawn. [1] Care was organised across 18 neighbourhood teams in the ...
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A clinical pathway is a multidisciplinary management tool based on evidence-based practice for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course, in which the different tasks (interventions) by the professionals involved in the patient care are defined, optimized and sequenced either by hour (ED), day (acute care) or visit (homecare).
Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient: LCPD: Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease: LCV: leukocytoclastic vasculitis: LCX: left circumflex artery: L&D: labor and delivery: LDH: lactate dehydrogenase: LDL: low-density lipoprotein: LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol: L-DOPA: levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine: LEC: lupus erythematosus cell LEEP ...
End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death.End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks.
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
The problem is that this audit was carried out by the Mary Curie Palliative Care Institute, which invented the Liverpool Care Pathway. I think this is a clear conflict of interests. MrSativa ( talk ) 06:03, 13 June 2017 (UTC) [ reply ]