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Continuous sedation until death: moral justifications of physicians and nurses--a content analysis of opinion pieces

Continuous sedation until death (CSD), the act of reducing or removing the consciousness of an incurably ill patient until death, often provokes medical-ethical discussions in the opinion sections of medical and nursing journals. A content analysis…

Clinician perspectives regarding the do-not-resuscitate order

IMPORTANCE: While data exist regarding the frequency and timing of the do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order in children, little is known about clinician attitudes and behaviors regarding this order. OBJECTIVE: To identify clinician attitudes regarding the…

Views of pediatric intensive care physicians on the ethics of organ donation after cardiac death

OBJECTIVE: Donation after cardiac death has been endorsed by professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics as a means of increasing the supply of transplantable organs. However, ethical concerns have been raised about…

Tags: 2013, Attitude Of Health Personnel, Backlog, Clark JA, Critical Care Medicine, Death, Female, Humans, Intensive Care Units, Journal Article, Male, Meert KL, Pediatric, Physicians, Sarnaik AA, Sarnaik AP, Tissue and Organ Procurement

Parental Involvement In Neonatal Critical Care Decision-making.

The article analyses the decision-making process between doctors and parents of babies in neonatal intensive care. In particular, it focuses on cases in which the decision concerns the redirection of care from full intensive care to palliative care…

A pilot study of palliative medicine fellows' hospice home visits.

This was a prospective descriptive study of hospice physician home visits (HVs) conducted by Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows. Our objectives were 1) to improve our knowledge of hospice care at home by describing physician HVs 2) to identify…

Being there: A scoping review of grief support training in medical education

INTRODUCTION: Medical education experts argue that grief support training for physicians would improve physician and patient and family wellness, and should therefore be mandatory. However, there is little evidence about the range of curricula…

Tags: 2019, Bonato S, Ferguson G, January 2020 List, Learning, Medical Education, Mosher P J, Patients, Pediatrics, Physicians, PLoS One, psychological stress, Saikaly R, Sikstrom L, Soklaridis S, trainees, workshops

Information exchange among physicians caring for the same patient in the community

BACKGROUND: The exchange of information is an integral component of continuity of health care and may limit or prevent costly duplication of tests and treatments. This study determined the probability that patient information from previous visits…

Physician board certification in hospice and palliative medicine

The American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (ABHPM) was formed in 1995 to establish and implement standards for certification of physicians practicing hospice and palliative medicine and, ultimately, accreditation of physician training in…

Symptoms and Suffering at the End of Life in Children with Cancer

Cancer is the leading cause of nonaccidental death in childhood.1 There has, however, been little evaluation of the overall experience at the end of life of children who are dying of cancer or of their symptoms other than pain.2,3 A number of studies…

Tags: 2000, Anorexia/etiology/therapy, Backlog, Boston, Child, Children's Hospital (Boston), Clodronate, Constipation/etiology/therapy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston), Death and Euthanasia, Diarrhea/etiology/therapy, Dyspnea/etiology/therapy, Ellenbogen JM, Emanuel EJ, Empirical Approach, Fatigue/etiology/therapy, Grier Holcombe E, Health Care Surveys, home care services, Humans, Journal Article, Klar Neil, Levin SB, Logistic Models, Longitudinal Studies, Neoplasms/complications/therapy, New England Journal Of Medicine, Non-U.S. Gov't, Oncology at EOL, P.H.S., Pain/etiology/therapy, Palliative Care/standards/statistics & Numerical Data, Parents, Physicians, Professional Patient Relationship, Psychological, Quality Of Health Care, Quality Of Life, Questionnaires, Research Support, Salem-Schatz S, Stress, Terminal Care, U.S. Gov't, Weeks Jane C, Withholding Treatment, Wolfe J

Physician Decision-Making Process about Withholding/Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatments in Paediatric Patients: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence

BACKGROUND: With paediatric patients, deciding whether to withhold/withdraw life-sustaining treatments (LST) at the end of life is difficult and ethically sensitive. Little is understood about how and why physicians decide on withholding/withdrawing…

Tags: 2022, Adolescent, BMC Palliative Care, Cavolo A, Child, Death, Decision-making, Gastmans C, Humans, Labarque V, Life-sustaining treatments, Physicians, September 2022 List, Zhong Y

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