Letter to the EditorControversial Liverpool Care Pathway withdrawn in the United Kingdom after official government review
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Training, quality, communication and accountability
These problems include firstly, training, in order to prevent the misuses of the LCP, it's essential that all burn care professionals using end of life tools know the principles of how they should be used [1], [2], [4], [7], [8]. Secondly, quality – some of the incentives for hospitals to use the LCP are said to have rewarded a purely numerical increase in use of the LCP, with little way to ensure it is increasing quality rather than simply quantity [7], [8], [17]. This must be addressed in any
Contribution to authorship
Sammy Al-Benna acquired, analysed and interpreted the data, wrote and approved the final version of the manuscript to be submitted. Ciaran O’Boyle analysed and interpreted the data, wrote and finalised the manuscript, read and approved the final version of the manuscript to be submitted.
Conflict of interest statement
None of the authors has any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately influence (bias) this work.
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