Continuous palliative sedation for cancer and noncancer patients

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 172-181

  Swart, Siebe J ^a,b   Rietjens, Judith A C ^a   Van Zuylen, Lia ^a   Zuurmond, Wouter W A ^c,d   Perez, Roberto S G M ^c   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^a   Van Delden, Johannes J M ^e   Van Der Heide, Agnes ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Nursing Home Laurens Antonius IJsselmonde   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Hospice Kuria   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; continuous sedation until death; decision making; disease trajectories; noncancer; palliative sedation

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CACHEXIA; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONFUSION; DEATH; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; SEDATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855871303     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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