End-of-Life Decisions in Cancer Patients

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 medicineCancerAlternative medicineTerminal SedationMedical careDeath certificateArtificial nutritionMedicine

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.

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