Minding Your “P’s” and “Q’s” in End-of-life Wound Care: Palliation and Quality

End-of-life patient care includes a variety of wound care challenges.  Much of current evidence-based wound care practice focuses on the outcome of healing which may not be an expected outcome at end of life.  Wound care challenges at end of life include combining best practices with palliative measures.  This presentation will explore the process of identifying advances in palliative wound care practices and gaps in research regarding end-of-life wound management. Patients under hospice care deserve to have symptoms of all types managed including the management of wounds.  Collaborative efforts are needed to advance the management of these challenging symptoms.