terminal care

Summary

Summary: Medical and nursing care of patients in the terminal stage of an illness.

Webpages

  1. medicine & death conference
    www.siumed.edu/ethics/medicine_death.htm
  2. dyspnea
    endoflife.stanford.edu/M07_Zaw_Dysnea/res_dysnea.html
  3. caregiver well-being - toolkit - brown university
    www.chcr.brown.edu/pcoc/familyburden.htm
  4. bereavement
    endoflife.stanford.edu/M21_bereave/res_bereave.htm
  5. books reviews---best books--bibliographies---selected and reviewed by james leonard park
    www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/BIB-JP.html
  6. palliative medicine - specialties - royal college of physicians, london
    www.rcplondon.ac.uk/SPECIALTIES/PALLIATIVE-MEDICINE/Pages/Pa ...
  7. rchc community project abstract database - oregon ahec - oregon area health education centers program
    www.ohsu.edu/ahec/clerkship/startabstractdb.cfm
  8. palliative care | seattle cancer care alliance
    www.seattlecca.org/palliative-care.cfm
  9. social/family issues: medlineplus
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/socialfamilyissues.html
  10. chapter 49. advance planning for end-of-life care
    www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety/chap49.htm

Research Grants

  1. PALLIATIVE CARE FELLOWSHIP
    J A Billings; Fiscal Year: 2004
  2. The CASCADE Study: End-of-Life in Advanced Dementia
    Susan L Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2008
  3. The CASCADE Study: End-of-Life in Advanced Dementia
    Susan L Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2007
  4. Improving Marital Support For Couples Coping with Cancer
    Sharon L Manne; Fiscal Year: 2008
  5. Improving Marital Support For Couples Coping with Cancer
    Sharon L Manne; Fiscal Year: 2007

Publications

  1. Supportive and palliative care needs of families of children who die from cancer: an Australian study
    Leanne Monterosso
    Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
    Palliat Med 22:59-69
  2. Proxy perspectives regarding end-of-life care for persons with cancer
    Marie Bakitas
    School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Cancer 112:1854-61
  3. An analysis of provider attitudes toward end-of-life decision-making
    Jean A Yates
    Graduate School of Management, Marshall University, South Charleston, West Virginia, USA
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 20:371-81
  4. End of life care. Perspectives from families and caregivers
    K Kreitzschitz
    Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St George's University School of Medicine, St George's, Grenada
    West Indian Med J 52:311-6
  5. Faculty development in end-of-life care: evaluation of a national train-the-trainer program
    Georgette A Stratos
    Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94304, USA
    Acad Med 81:1000-7
  6. Policies designed to enhance the quality of life of children with cancer at the end-of-life
    C S Tadmor
    Department of Pediatric Hemato Oncology, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Hematology, Rambam Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Pediatr Hematol Oncol 20:43-54
  7. Palliative sedation
    Paul C Rousseau
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 19:295-7
  8. Palliative care: end of life care
    D Spence
    West Indian Med J 52:265-6
  9. Symptoms, treatment and "dying peacefully" in terminally ill cancer patients: a prospective study
    Jean 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
  10. Beyond ethical dilemmas: improving the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Crit Care 7:11-2

Scientific Experts

Detail Information

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  1. medicine & death conference
    www.siumed.edu/ethics/medicine_death.htm
  2. dyspnea
    endoflife.stanford.edu/M07_Zaw_Dysnea/res_dysnea.html
  3. caregiver well-being - toolkit - brown university
    www.chcr.brown.edu/pcoc/familyburden.htm
  4. bereavement
    endoflife.stanford.edu/M21_bereave/res_bereave.htm
  5. books reviews---best books--bibliographies---selected and reviewed by james leonard park
    www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/BIB-JP.html
  6. palliative medicine - specialties - royal college of physicians, london
    www.rcplondon.ac.uk/SPECIALTIES/PALLIATIVE-MEDICINE/Pages/Pa ...
  7. rchc community project abstract database - oregon ahec - oregon area health education centers program
    www.ohsu.edu/ahec/clerkship/startabstractdb.cfm
  8. palliative care | seattle cancer care alliance
    www.seattlecca.org/palliative-care.cfm
  9. social/family issues: medlineplus
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/socialfamilyissues.html
  10. chapter 49. advance planning for end-of-life care
    www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ptsafety/chap49.htm
  11. physicians | winter haven hospital
    www.mfms.com/physicians/physicians.asp
  12. medical college of wisconsin patient care
    doctor.mcw.edu/clinic.php?35
  13. university of north carolina wilmington - the career center - explore and research careers
    www.uncw.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/nursing.htm
  14. euthanasia, passive
    lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:51378
  15. lamson library
    library.plymouth.edu/browse/?subj=Advance+Directives
  16. visiting coe bases 2 a construction of death and life studies concerning culture and value of life
    www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/coe/coe02_tanbou02_e.html
  17. anticipatory grief, death, and bereavement: a continuum
    www2.sunysuffolk.edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/ETEXTS/DeathandDying_TE ...
  18. university of north carolina wilmington - the career center - explore and research careers
    www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/majors/nursing.htm
  19. social change
    lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:51407
  20. department of sociology | brandeis university
    www.brandeis.edu/departments/sociology/timmermans.html
  21. nursing care
    lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:43759
  22. maple farm nursing center
    www.lancastergeneral.org/content/Maple_Farm_Nursing_Center.h ...
  23. euthanasia considered as device paradigm
    scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v3n1/tijmes.html
  24. faculty of theology
    academic.sun.ac.za/tsv/Profiles/louw_profile.htm
  25. faculty of theology
    academic.sun.ac.za/theology/Profiles/louw_profile.htm
  26. lamson library » final exam : a surgeon’s reflections on mortality
    library.plymouth.edu/browse/?subj=Chen%2C+Pauline+W%2C
  27. nursing homes and assisted living
    www.stjohn.org/InnerPage.aspx?PageID=2210
  28. instructor class description
    www.washington.edu/students/icd/S/engl/281kellymeg.html
  29. geriatric medicine fellowship
    www.einstein.edu/medicine/geriatric/education/index.html

Research Grants5

  1. PALLIATIVE CARE FELLOWSHIP
    J A Billings; Fiscal Year: 2004
    DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) Problems with the quality of terminal care and with how medical education addresses the end of life have been widely recognized in both public and professional forums...
  2. The CASCADE Study: End-of-Life in Advanced Dementia
    Susan L Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..Seventy percent with dementia will die in a nursing home (NH). Therefore, NHs are important sites of terminal care for these patients...
  3. The CASCADE Study: End-of-Life in Advanced Dementia
    Susan L Mitchell; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Seventy percent with dementia will die in a nursing home (NH). Therefore, NHs are important sites of terminal care for these patients...
  4. Improving Marital Support For Couples Coping with Cancer
    Sharon L Manne; Fiscal Year: 2008
    ..piece on marital support processes among cancer patients and their partners as well as to move her couples' work into the area of end-of-life/terminal care. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.
  5. Improving Marital Support For Couples Coping with Cancer
    Sharon L Manne; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Over the award period, she also plans to author a review and integration piece on marital support processes among cancer patients and their partners as well as to move her couples' work into the area of end-of-life/terminal care.

Publications62

  1. Supportive and palliative care needs of families of children who die from cancer: an Australian study
    Leanne Monterosso
    Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
    Palliat Med 22:59-69
    ..This will facilitate a better understanding by both parents and their children with cancer, and acceptance of the integration of palliative and supportive care in routine cancer care...
  2. Proxy perspectives regarding end-of-life care for persons with cancer
    Marie Bakitas
    School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Cancer 112:1854-61
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of proxy perspectives is feasible as an indicator of the quality of end-of-life care, and the results of the current study provide actionable data for areas of improvement in palliative oncology care...
  3. An analysis of provider attitudes toward end-of-life decision-making
    Jean A Yates
    Graduate School of Management, Marshall University, South Charleston, West Virginia, USA
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 20:371-81
    ..While the results showed a general consensus about the importance of respecting patients' end-of-life wishes, there were differences among respondents in regard to specific issues...
  4. End of life care. Perspectives from families and caregivers
    K Kreitzschitz
    Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St George's University School of Medicine, St George's, Grenada
    West Indian Med J 52:311-6
    ..This paper illustrates the need for health professionals and policy makers to do more to relieve suffering at the end of life...
  5. Faculty development in end-of-life care: evaluation of a national train-the-trainer program
    Georgette A Stratos
    Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94304, USA
    Acad Med 81:1000-7
    ....
  6. Policies designed to enhance the quality of life of children with cancer at the end-of-life
    C S Tadmor
    Department of Pediatric Hemato Oncology, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Hematology, Rambam Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    Pediatr Hematol Oncol 20:43-54
    ..Preventive intervention on the Social Action level consists of introducing policies and services in the pediatric hemato-oncology department designed to enhance the quality of life of children with cancer at the end-of-life...
  7. Palliative sedation
    Paul C Rousseau
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 19:295-7
  8. Palliative care: end of life care
    D Spence
    West Indian Med J 52:265-6
  9. Symptoms, treatment and "dying peacefully" in terminally ill cancer patients: a prospective study
    Jean 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
    ..Attention to psychosocial well-being and to the need to be with loved ones appears to be essential for patients' quality of life...
  10. Beyond ethical dilemmas: improving the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Crit Care 7:11-2
  11. Teaching palliative care and end-of-life issues: a core curriculum for surgical residents
    Daniel D Klaristenfeld
    Department of Surgery, Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, APC Room 437, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
    Ann Surg Oncol 14:1801-6
    ..Surgical residents think that understanding palliative care is a useful part of their training, a sentiment that is still evident 3 months later...
  12. A revisitation of "doc, how much time do I have?"
    Lidia Schapira
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA, USA
    J Clin Oncol 21:8s-11s
  13. Improving our care at life's end: making a difference
    Gary L Stein
    New Jersey Health Decisions, 13 Rockland Terrace, Verona, NJ 07044, USA
    Health Soc Work 29:77-9
  14. End-of-life issues in cardiac patients and their families
    T Jaarsma
    Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Groningen P.O. Box 30.001 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
    Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs 1:223-5
  15. Legal aspects of end-of-life decisions in Italy: the penal relevance of the limitation of treatment in the terminally ill and the problem of causality by omission. The legal puzzle of end-of-life care in Italy: is therapeutic limitation in the terminally
    E P Fabris
    Università di Padova, Internazionale, Comunitario, Dipartimento di Diritto Pubblico, Padova, Italy
    Eur J Anaesthesiol Suppl 42:58-65
    ....
  16. Randomized controlled trial of a prompt list to help advanced cancer patients and their caregivers to ask questions about prognosis and end-of-life care
    Josephine M Clayton
    Medical Psychology Research Unit, Department of Medicine and School of Psychology, and the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    J Clin Oncol 25:715-23
    ....
  17. Good death in Japanese cancer care: a qualitative study
    Kei Hirai
    Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
    J Pain Symptom Manage 31:140-7
    ..quot; This study identified important components of a good death in Japan. A future quantitative survey is planned to clarify the generalizability of these findings as the primary endpoint of palliative care in Japan...
  18. Critical palliative care: intensive care redefined
    J M Civetta
    Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030-3955, USA
    Surg Oncol Clin N Am 10:137-59
    ..Finally, all need to learn more about the dying process to benefit society, their own families, and themselves...
  19. Providing end-of-life care to patients: critical care nurses' perceived obstacles and supportive behaviors
    Renea L Beckstrand
    Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
    Am J Crit Care 14:395-403
    ....
  20. Anger in palliative care: a clinical approach
    J Philip
    Palliative Care Service, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Intern Med J 37:49-55
    ..A practical approach to anger, useful for the clinician directly involved in care, is outlined along with some strategies to adopt in the face of persistent anger...
  21. Caring for the child with cancer at the close of life
    Amy J Markowitz
    JAMA 293:1382
  22. Caring for the child with cancer at the close of life: "there are people who make it, and I'm hoping I'm one of them"
    Craig A Hurwitz
    Pediatric Advanced Care Team, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
    JAMA 292:2141-9
    ....
  23. Preferences of the Dutch general public for a good death and associations with attitudes towards end-of-life decision-making
    Judith A C Rietjens
    Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Palliat Med 20:685-92
    ..morphine were related to the wish to have a dignified death, and with concerns about burdening relatives with terminal care. Acceptance of euthanasia was also associated with the wish to be able to decide about medical end-of-life ..
  24. Care of the dying patient: the last hours or days of life
    John Ellershaw
    Marie Curie Centre Liverpool, Speke Road, Liverpool L25 8QA
    BMJ 326:30-4
  25. Caring for a dignified end of life in a Christian health-care institution: the view of Caritas Catholica Vlaanderen
    Chris Gastmans
    Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
    Ethical Perspect 9:134-45
  26. End of life decision-making by New Zealand general practitioners: a national survey
    Kay Mitchell
    Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
    N Z Med J 117:U934
    ..6% cases (39), actions consistent with physician-assisted death. CONCLUSION: Physician-assisted death provided by some general practitioners in New Zealand is occurring within the context of available palliative care...
  27. End-of-life issues in intensive care units: a national random survey of nurses' knowledge and beliefs
    K A Puntillo
    University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Am J Crit Care 10:216-29
    ..The vast majority oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia. Wider professional and public dialogue on end-of-life care in intensive care units is warranted...
  28. Communication with terminal cancer patients in palliative care: are there differences between nurses and physicians?
    A Levorato
    Division of Palliative Care Medicine, University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
    Support Care Cancer 9:420-7
    ..quot;..
  29. Moral problems experienced by nurses when caring for terminally ill people: a literature review
    Jean Jacques Georges
    Daniel den Hoed Kliniek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Nurs Ethics 9:155-78
    ..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...
  30. Assessment of implementation of an order protocol for end-of-life symptom management
    Anne M Walling
    Department of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    J Palliat Med 11:857-65
    ..Nearly all clinicians found the ESMO protocol to be valuable. CONCLUSIONS: A standardized protocol is a useful, but not fully sufficient, step toward improving care for dying hospitalized patients...
  31. The challenge of patients' unmet palliative care needs in the final stages of chronic illness
    D Fitzsimons
    Nursing Research and Development, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
    Palliat Med 21:313-22
    ..An earlier and more effective implementation of the palliative care approach is necessary if the needs of patients in the final stages of chronic illness are to be adequately addressed...
  32. Death rattle: its impact on staff and volunteers in palliative care
    Bl Wee
    Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
    Palliat Med 22:173-6
    ..This effect may influence their decision to intervene when death rattle occurs. Doctors and nurses need to consider why, when and how they intervene and the consequences of that intervention...
  33. [Existential crisis of the dying physician]
    Peter Strang
    Karolinska institutet samt Stockholms sjukhems FoUU, Stockholm
    Lakartidningen 101:1350-1
  34. Sedation, dehydration, and ethical uncertainty
    Steven J Baumrucker
    Palliative Care Service, Wellmont Health Systems, USA
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 19:299-300
  35. End-of-life care for older adults
    Karen S Ogle
    Department of Family Practice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, B110 Clinical Center, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    Prim Care 32:811-28
    ....
  36. Opioid analgesics for cancer pain: symptom control for the living or comfort for the dying? A qualitative study to investigate the factors influencing the decision to accept morphine for pain caused by cancer
    C M Reid
    Gloucestershire Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Gloucester Royal Hospital, Gloucester, UK
    Ann Oncol 19:44-8
    ..CONCLUSION: Among cancer patients the idea that opioids represent a comfort measure for the dying and not legitimate analgesics may represent a greater barrier to their uptake than concerns about tolerance or addiction...
  37. Decision making at a time of crisis near the end of life
    David E Weissman
    Division of Neoplastic Disease and Related Disorders, Froedtert Hospital, Room 3961, 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
    JAMA 292:1738-43
    ....
  38. Patient control and end-of-life care part II: the advanced practice nurse perspective
    Deborah L Volker
    Austin School of Nursing, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
    Oncol Nurs Forum 31:954-60
    ..INTERPRETATION: Nurses must be sensitive to the variety of preferences their patients with advanced cancer may have for engagement in decisions regarding treatment, care management, and activities of daily life...
  39. Moral problems in palliative care practice: a qualitative study
    Maaike A Hermsen
    University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, 232 EFG, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Med Health Care Philos 6:263-72
    ..The specific differences in the manifestation of moral problems in the different palliative care settings will be highlighted as well...
  40. Breaking the "bad" news to patients and families: preparing to have the conversation about end-of-life and hospice care
    Robert L Arnold
    The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast, 300 East Bay Drive, Largo, FL 33770, USA
    Am J Geriatr Cardiol 13:307-12
    ..The following article explores this multilevel approach in an effort to assist physicians and other health care professions in supporting patients and families in their transition from curative care to hospice and palliative care...
  41. The agony of agonal respiration: is the last gasp necessary?
    R M Perkin
    Department of Pediatrics, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858 4354, USA
    J Med Ethics 28:164-9
    ..We propose that there is an ethical basis, in rare circumstances, for the use of neuromuscular blockade to suppress prolonged episodes of agonal respiration in the well-sedated patient in order to allow a peaceful and comfortable death...
  42. A good death in Uganda: survey of needs for palliative care for terminally ill people in urban areas
    Ekiria Kikule
    Hospice Africa Uganda, PO Box 7757, Kampala, Uganda
    BMJ 327:192-4
    ....
  43. Population-based study of place of death of patients with cancer: implications for GPs
    Birgit Aabom
    Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
    Br J Gen Pract 55:684-9
    ..To increase the opportunity to die at home, more research is needed on the role of the GP and the interface between GPs and other providers of health care at home for patients who are terminally ill with cancer...
  44. Does persistent involvement by the GP improve palliative care at home for end-stage cancer patients?
    Birgit Aabom
    Research Unit for General Practice, University of Southern Denmark, J B Winsloøws Vej 9A, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
    Palliat Med 20:507-12
    ..Provided that temporal relations are taken into account, the mortality follow-back design can be a suitable and ethical research method to highlight and monitor end-of-life cancer care...
  45. When death is imminent: where terminally ill patients with cancer prefer to die and why
    Siew Tzuh Tang
    National Yang Ming University, School of Nursing, 155, Sec 2 Li Nong Street, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
    Cancer Nurs 26:245-51
    ..Effective nursing interventions need developing to facilitate death at a place that is in accord with dying patients' preferences...
  46. Treatment of existential distress in life threatening illness: a review of manualized interventions
    Katerine LeMay
    School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Clin Psychol Rev 28:472-93
    ..Similarities and differences between each intervention are noted, and clinical and empirical considerations are discussed...
  47. Home care of a child dying of a malignancy and parental awareness of a child's impending death
    Pamela J Surkan
    Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    Palliat Med 20:161-9
    ..4% who did not receive the information). Prevalence of children's unrelieved pain was 11.6% for those receiving home care and 15.3% for those receiving care outside the home...
  48. Anxiety and its management in advanced cancer
    Andrew J Roth
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10022, USA
    Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 1:50-6
    ..Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of research in this field; we hope that this article will encourage the motivation for more studies to assess different treatments for anxiety in this population...
  49. Patient choice regarding place of death
    H Pearse
    Palliat Med 19:171-2
  50. Dignity-based approaches in the care of terminally ill patients
    Genevieve N Thompson
    Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Canada
    Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 2:49-53
    ..SUMMARY: Despite the fact that little research exists exploring the notion of dignity at the end of life, a robust model of dignity exists and is helpful in directing interventions aimed at improving care at the end of life...
  51. Measuring quality of dying in end-stage renal disease
    Lewis M Cohen
    Department of Psychiatry, Baystate Medical Center, West Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
    Semin Dial 17:376-9
    ..The results are summarized, and they should hopefully form a basis for the development of additional research and clinical measurement tools...
  52. Dying young: cues from the courts
    Rhonda Gay Hartman
    School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:615-9
  53. Crossing the 'bright line'--difficult decisions at the end of life
    Ilora Finlay
    Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Velindre NHS Trust, Whitchurch, Cardiff
    Clin Med 6:398-402
    ..Following Gee's esteemed lead--for he was celebrated for his clinical descriptions--I will unashamedly use doctor-patient experiences to illustrate my points, particularly around end-of-life decisions...
  54. [Bioethics and home care]
    Xavier Busquet Duran
    PADES-Manresa (ICS, Comité de Etica Asistencial, Fundación Jordi Col i Gurina, Barcelona, Spain
    Aten Primaria 38:523-5
  55. End-of-life issues neglected in India
    Anil Kumar Rastogi
    1275 East Latham Avenue, Hemet, CA 92543, USA
    Indian J Med Ethics 2:83-4
  56. Considerations of healthcare professionals in medical decision-making about treatment for clinical end-stage cancer patients
    Anna F van Leeuwen
    Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    J Pain Symptom Manage 28:351-5
    ..When healthcare professionals establish that a decision would be medically appropriate, the patient's wish will often be an important consideration...
  57. [Providing or withholding treatment: the role of the patient's wish and priorities in palliative care]
    H T Baberg
    Abteilung für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Klinikum der Ruhr Universität, Bochum
    Dtsch Med Wochenschr 127:1690-4
    ..As far as palliative and comfort care for terminal patients is concerned, contrary to widely voiced concern, clinicians do not have priorities different from those used in hospice care...
  58. Physicians attitudes toward DNR of terminally ill cancer patients in Taiwan
    Co Shi Chantal Chao
    Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University
    J Nurs Res 10:161-7
    ..The DNR order finally gained its legal base for medical practice. The limitation of this study was the low response rate. However, since the subjects, physicians, had a busy work load, this was still an acceptable response rate...