Gunasekaran, BharathyScott, CarolineDucharlet, KathrynMarco, DavidMitchell, ImogenWeil, Jennifer2020-04-271444-0903http://hdl.handle.net/1885/203415Healthcare professionals have limited formal end-of-life care training despite the large proportion of hospital deaths. A retrospective review of 201 acute hospital deaths revealed 166 (82.6%) had documentation to suggest the patient was dying but this was performed late with a median time between documentation and death of 0.84 days. Furthermore, 132 (66%) patients received an intervention in the final 48 h of life. This highlights the need to improve the recognition and management of dying patients in acute hospitalsThis study was part of a multi-centre ‘Understanding of End-of-life Care in Acute Hospital Study’ that was partly funded by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.application/pdfen-AU© 2019 Royal Australasian College of Physiciansend-of-life care, recognising dying, death, communication, education.201910.1111/imj.141772019-11-25