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ecj-6718	Cervellin, Gianfranco; Casagranda, Ivo; Ricci, Giorgio; Mezzocolli, Ilenia; Paolillo, Ciro; Rossi, Rita; Bellone, Andrea; Guzzetti, Stefano; Giostra, Fabrizio; Rastelli, Gianni; Cavazza, Mario	Unavoidable deaths in the Italian Emergency Departments. Results of a ten-year survey. A mirror of substantial social changes, or a warning for a hospital-system pathology?	2017	4	.pdf	application/pdf	3442	190	62	Notably, among the elderly population, only 15% of all deaths are due to an acute disease or trauma, whereas 85% are related to chronic diseases.19 In Italy also there is a widespread per- ception of incresing rates of hospital deaths, in particular regarding deaths in the ED for chronic, end stage diseases (i.e., cancer, dementia, terminal illness), but defintive data on this subject are lacking. After this study, a large part of literature and research about the modern attitude to death seems to criticize the trend to increasing hospital deaths, since it resembles a threat to an idealized good death.29 Some Authors perceive that an increas- ing number of elderly patients is referred to the ED at the end of life, often from nursing homes and without any real medical per- spective.	cache/ecj-6718.pdf	txt/ecj-6718.txt