id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ecj-11308	Porta, Lorenzo; Mauri, Eugenia	A narrative review on palliative care in the emergency department: dealing with the uncertainty of death	2023	6	.pdf	application/pdf	5197	264	50	The situation clearly demonstrated that, especially during times of crisis, emergency department proto- cols should incorporate palliative care and seek innovative tools which can allow for better management of palliative care patients and emotional/spiritual support of families.9,10 Thus, we aim in this narra- tive review to provide the reader with an introductory guide on the ethical and practical principles that should guide the emergency physician in a correct approach to these patients in the ED.11-15 Uncertainty and how to deal with it Doctors are historically taught to understand patients through scientific knowledge, basing their decisions on scientific evidence alone so that subjectivity does not bias their judgment. In the last decades emergency physicians have observed a steep increase in the emergency department (ED) admissions of palliative care patients who rely on the hospital for symptoms’ relief and management of acute exacerbations of their chronic dis- ease.	cache/ecj-11308.pdf	txt/ecj-11308.txt