Palliative Sedation in a Specialized Unit for Acute Palliative Care in a Cancer Hospital: Comparing Patients Dying With and Without Palliative Sedation

Abstract Palliative sedation is undergoing extensive debate. The aims of this study were to describe the practice of palliative sedation at a specialized acute palliative care unit and to study whether patients who received palliative sedation differed from patients who did not. We performed a syste...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of pain and symptom management 2008-09, Vol.36 (3), p.228-234
Hauptverfasser:	Rietjens, Judith A.C., PhD, van Zuylen, Lia, MD, PhD, van Veluw, Hetty, RN, CNS, van der Wijk, Lidemarie, MSc, van der Heide, Agnes, MD, PhD, van der Rijt, Carin C.D., MD, PhD
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anesthesia & Perioperative Care Biological and medical sciences Comorbidity Dyspnea - epidemiology Dyspnea - prevention & control Female Humans Hypnotics and Sedatives - administration & dosage Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Neoplasms - drug therapy Neoplasms - epidemiology Neoplasms - nursing Netherlands - epidemiology Pain Medicine Palliative care Palliative Care - statistics & numerical data palliative care unit palliative sedation Pharmacology. Drug treatments Psychomotor Agitation - epidemiology Psychomotor Agitation - prevention & control Quality of Life Retrospective Studies Survival Analysis Survival Rate Treatment Outcome
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