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Music therapy in palliative setting

The expectations on the care of humans with an incurable disease are to console, to relieve pain and to take away somebody’s fears. Therefore, palliative care tries to support terminally ill persons during the last stage of life and to ameliorate the living conditions. The question is how far music...

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Autores principales: Korczak, Dieter, Wastian, Monika, Schneider, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23904890
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/hta000113
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description The expectations on the care of humans with an incurable disease are to console, to relieve pain and to take away somebody’s fears. Therefore, palliative care tries to support terminally ill persons during the last stage of life and to ameliorate the living conditions. The question is how far music therapy can increase the quality of life. Until now, there is only small evidence for that, because there are too few applicable studies.
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spelling pubmed-37286412013-07-31 Music therapy in palliative setting Korczak, Dieter Wastian, Monika Schneider, Michael GMS Health Technol Assess Article The expectations on the care of humans with an incurable disease are to console, to relieve pain and to take away somebody’s fears. Therefore, palliative care tries to support terminally ill persons during the last stage of life and to ameliorate the living conditions. The question is how far music therapy can increase the quality of life. Until now, there is only small evidence for that, because there are too few applicable studies. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2013-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3728641/ /pubmed/23904890 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/hta000113 Text en Copyright © 2013 Korczak et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited.
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