Highlights ■ Patients who received early palliative care were younger with more immunosuppression. ■ Intensive care unit and hospital mortality were higher with late palliative care. ■ Early palliative care reduced the use of advanced life support resources. ABSTRACT Objectives: To describe the use of advanced life support, resource utilization, and clinical outcomes and to identify the risk factors for late initiation of palliative care support in patients at the intensive care unit. Methods: A retrospective, single-center cohort study conducted […]

ABSTRACT Objective To analyze current scientific knowledge about communication of bad news by nurses. Methods This is an integrative literature review carried out by searching articles published in national and international journals indexed at SciELO, MEDLINE® (PubMed®), Scopus, Bireme and CINAHL, from 2010 to 2020, by crossing the controlled descriptors “communication”, “revelation of the truth”, and “nursing”, and the uncontrolled descriptor “bad news”. Results Ten articles with qualitative and cross-sectional design, as well as case reports were included. The analysis […]