Previous research suggests identifying these warning signs can indicate a 95 per cent probability of death within 48 hours.

Experts have suggested that palliative care patients who fail to corneal reflex tests are likley to die within 24 hours.

Like many hospice clinicians, Jung Hun Kang, MD, PhD, had noticed the disappearance of the corneal reflex in his dying patients. But unlike most, he decided to investigate. His new study, published in ...