Death Notification in the Emergency Department: Survivors and Physicians
When patients die in the emergency department (ED), emergency physicians (EP) must disclosethe bad news to family members. The death is often unexpected and the act of notification can bedifficult. Many EPs have not been trained in the skill of communicating death to family members.This article revi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vx857xn |