Live and let die: Existential decision processes in a fatal disease

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 518-525

  Lulé, Dorothée ^a   Nonnenmacher, Sonja ^b   Sorg, Sonja ^a   Heimrath, Johanna ^a   Hautzinger, Martin ^b   Meyer, Thomas ^c   Kübler, Andrea ^d   Birbaumer, Niels ^b,e   Ludolph, Albert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Decision; Depression; Palliative care; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRACHEA STOMA; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84896489913     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-013-7229-z     Document Type: Article

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