title: Unexpected Death on an Acute Palliative Care Unit.
authors.affiliation: Anesthesia and Intensive Care & Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo, Italy. Electronic address: terapiadeldolore@lamaddalenanet.it.
authors.forename: Sebastiano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mercadante
authors.affiliation: Anesthesia and Intensive Care & Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, La Maddalena Cancer Center, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ferrera
authors.affiliation: Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care "G. D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casuccio
mesh_terms: D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011446:Prospective Studies