作者: Lieve Van den Block , Agnes Van der Heide , Luc Deliens
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15742-4_56
关键词: Family medicine 、 Cancer 、 Alternative medicine 、 Terminal Sedation 、 Medical care 、 Death certificate 、 Artificial nutrition 、 Medicine
摘要: While curing illness and prolonging life have traditionally been the main goals of medical care, physicians sometimes need to make decisions that can, or are explicitly intended to, shorten a patient’s life. In this report, we study prevalence end-of-life among patients dying from cancer in six European countries.