Palliative sedation, not slow euthanasia: A prospective, longitudinal study of sedation in Flemish palliative care units

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-24

  Claessens, Patricia ^a   Menten, Johan ^b   Schotsmans, Paul ^a   Broeckaert, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

empirical study; longitudinal; Palliative sedation; prospective

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DROWSINESS; EUTHANASIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; SEDATION; SYMPTOM; WELLBEING; COMORBIDITY; DEEP SEDATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; COMORBIDITY; DEEP SEDATION; DEPRESSION; EUTHANASIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651265894     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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