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A comparison of drugs and procedures of care in the Italian hospice and hospital settings: the final three days of life for cancer patients
BACKGROUND: A palliative approach at the end of life typically involves forgoing certain drugs and procedures and starting others - weighing burden against potential benefit. An assessment of the palliative approach may be undertaken by investigating which drugs and procedures are used in the dying...
Autores principales: | West, Emily, Costantini, Massimo, Pasman, H Roeline, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4219049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0496-2 |
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