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| Jean Jacques GeorgesSummaryAffiliation: VU University Medical Center Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Symptoms, treatment and "dying peacefully" in terminally ill cancer patients: a prospective studyJean Jacques Georges
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Support Care Cancer 13:160-8. 2005..The aims of this study were to describe the symptoms, their treatment during the final months of life of terminally ill cancer patients and to assess characteristics of the dying process...- Differences between terminally ill cancer patients who died after euthanasia had been performed and terminally ill cancer patients who did not request euthanasiaJean Jacques Georges
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam
Palliat Med 19:578-86. 2005..No differences concerning the treatment of symptoms or the care provided were found between the two groups. The results suggest that the practice of euthanasia is mainly related to the patient's suffering... - Requests to forgo potentially life-prolonging treatment and to hasten death in terminally ill cancer patients: a prospective studyJean Jacques Georges
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Pain Symptom Manage 31:100-10. 2006..The results emphasize the importance of gaining insight into the patients' suffering to provide meaningful assistance... - Physicians' opinions on palliative care and euthanasia in the NetherlandsJean Jacques Georges
Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU Medich Centrum, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Palliat Med 9:1137-44. 2006..In recent decades significant developments in end-of-life care have taken place in The Netherlands. There has been more attention for palliative care and alongside the practice of euthanasia has been regulated... - Relatives' perspective on the terminally ill patients who died after euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide: a retrospective cross-sectional interview study in the NetherlandsJean Jacques Georges
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Death Stud 31:1-15. 2007..According to the relative, in 92% of patients EAS had contributed favourably to the quality of the end of life, mainly by preventing or ending suffering... - Moral problems experienced by nurses when caring for terminally ill people: a literature reviewJean Jacques Georges
Daniel den Hoed Kliniek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nurs Ethics 9:155-78. 2002..The moral problems perceived by these nurses are related to end-of-life issues, communication with patients, the suffering of patients, and the appropriateness of the medical treatment... - Dutch experience of monitoring euthanasiaBregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands
BMJ 331:691-3. 2005 - Being a palliative care nurse in an academic hospital: a qualitative study about nurses' perceptions of palliative care nursingJean Jacques Georges
Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Clin Nurs 11:785-93. 2002..Nurses should be supported in the development of their palliative care approach and be assisted in reflecting on their practice in terms of a model of 'reflective practice' and in the development of 'moral imagination'...