Care of dying patients in hospital Palliative care teams have helped

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M Bennett,
D Alison,
K Simpson

St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF

EDITOR, - It is disappointing that Mina Mills and colleagues make no comment in their paper on the care of dying patients in hospital about changes that may have led to improvements in the past decade.1 Their study showed a lack of nursing care for dying patients, but whether this poor standard of care was applied to all patients admitted to hospitals in the study …