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Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care
For most clinicians and patients, the discussion of palliative care is a difficult topic. It is complicated by both the clinician's and patient's belief systems, which are frequently heavily influenced by cultural and religious upbringing. This article discusses the impact of some of those...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22229141 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.84804 |
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description | For most clinicians and patients, the discussion of palliative care is a difficult topic. It is complicated by both the clinician's and patient's belief systems, which are frequently heavily influenced by cultural and religious upbringing. This article discusses the impact of some of those differences on attitudes toward end of life decisions. Several different religions and cultures have been evaluated for their impact on perceptions of palliative care and the authors will share some examples. |
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spelling | pubmed-32498492012-01-06 Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care Steinberg, Steven M Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci Symposium For most clinicians and patients, the discussion of palliative care is a difficult topic. It is complicated by both the clinician's and patient's belief systems, which are frequently heavily influenced by cultural and religious upbringing. This article discusses the impact of some of those differences on attitudes toward end of life decisions. Several different religions and cultures have been evaluated for their impact on perceptions of palliative care and the authors will share some examples. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3249849/ /pubmed/22229141 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.84804 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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title | Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care |
title_full | Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care |
title_fullStr | Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care |
title_short | Cultural and religious aspects of palliative care |
title_sort | cultural and religious aspects of palliative care |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22229141 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.84804 |
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