Bereavement practices employed by hospitals and medical practitioners toward attending funeral of patients: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To ascertain bereavement practices offered by hospitals and medical practitioners (MPs), factors that influence the likelihood of MPs' involvement in funeral attendance, the benefits and barriers to attendance to a patient's funeral as perceived by MPs and the rate of attendance to patients' funeral by MPs.

Design

MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase, PubMed, and Google Scholar were searched with a systematic search structure for randomized controlled trials, comparative observational studies, case series, cross-sectional studies, editorials, and letters. The search was limited to English only. The study was registered with Prospero (Registration Number: CRD42018095368).

Results

A total of 381 articles were identified with 46 articles meeting the inclusion criteria. Of t

SUBMITTER: Kim K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739025 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature