Hospital-based bereavement care provision: A cross-sectional survey with health professionals.
Rahel NaefSimon Peng-KellerHorst RettkeMichael RuferHeidi PetryPublished in: Palliative medicine (2019)
The study indicates that many barriers to bereavement care exist in hospitals. More research is required to better understand enabling and limiting factors to bereavement care provision. A guideline-driven approach to hospital-based bereavement care that defines best practice and required organizational support seems necessary to ensure needs-based bereavement care.