Do hospice clinicians sedate patients intending to hasten death?

Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 20-23

  Morita, Tatsuya ^a   Tsunoda, Junichi ^a   Inoue, Satoshi ^a   Chihara, Satoshi ^a  

^a SEIREI MIKATAHARA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DRUG UTILIZATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033194126     PISSN: 08258597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/082585979901500305     Document Type: Review

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