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Symptoms and treatment when death is expected in dementia patients in long-term care facilities

BACKGROUND: Although dementia at the end of life is increasingly being studied, we lack prospective observational data on dying patients. In this study symptoms were observed in patients with dementia in the last days of life. METHODS: When the elderly care physicians in two Dutch nursing homes expe...

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Autores principales: Klapwijk, Maartje S, Caljouw, Monique AA, van Soest-Poortvliet, Mirjam C, van der Steen, Jenny T, Achterberg, Wilco P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25181947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-99