Rethinking guidelines for the use of palliative sedation

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 32-38

  Berger, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEEP SEDATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TIME;

CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEEP SEDATION; HUMANS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953559688     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0255     Document Type: Article

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