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Policies to improve end-of-life decisions in Flemish hospitals: communication, training of health care providers and use of quality assessments

BACKGROUND: The prevalence and implementation of institutional end-of-life policies has been comprehensively studied in Flanders, Belgium, a country where euthanasia was legalised in 2002. Developing end-of-life policies in hospitals is a first step towards improving the quality of medical decision-...

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Autores principales:	D'Haene, Ina, Vander Stichele, Robert H, Pasman, H Roeline W, Noortgate, Nele Van den, Bilsen, Johan, Mortier, Freddy, Deliens, Luc
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2009
Materias:	Research article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-8-20

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