Palliative sedation

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 494-495

  Vissers, Kris C P ^a   Hasselaar, Jeroen G J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; EUTHANASIA; NOTE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; STANDARDIZATION; TERMINAL CARE; BELGIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEATH; DEEP SEDATION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BELGIUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEATH; DEEP SEDATION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77950344715     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.12     Document Type: Note

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