Physician Rui Miguel Carneiro and nurse Catarina Simões , integrating the Team of Follow-up, Support and Palliation from Hospital da Luz Arrábida, lead in Portugal the project MiMI (Imminent Death in Internal Medicine), launched by the International Collaborative for the Best Care of the Dying Person, a prestigious international institution in the area. The purpose is to characterize the end-of-life care of patients by teams of Internal Medicine in Portugal and create a formative and operating model of care for the last hours or days of life. This ambitious project is under development in articulation with the Centre of Studies in Bioethical and Palliative Medicine, of the Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine , and in partnership with the Institute of Health Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. The International Collaborative for the Best Care of the Dying Person , based in the Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, comprises professionals and researchers, opinion leaders in 24 countries, united around the common goal of improving the care provided to patients in the last hours or days of life, and their families. Its vision is a world where all people have access to the best personalized end-of-life care, minimizing as much as possible physical and psychological suffering along that path.
