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Caregivers’ understanding of dementia predicts patients’ comfort at death: a prospective observational study
BACKGROUND: Patients with dementia frequently do not receive adequate palliative care which may relate to poor understanding of the natural course of dementia. We hypothesized that understanding that dementia is a progressive and terminal disease is fundamental to a focus on comfort in dementia, and...
Autores principales: | van der Steen, Jenny T, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D, Knol, Dirk L, Ribbe, Miel W, Deliens, Luc |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648449/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23577637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-105 |
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