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How do nursing home doctors involve patients and next of kin in end-of-life decisions? A qualitative study from Norway

BACKGROUND: Ethically challenging critical events and decisions are common in nursing homes. This paper presents nursing home doctors’ descriptions of how they include the patient and next of kin in end-of-life decisions. METHODS: We performed ten focus groups with 30 nursing home doctors. Advance c...

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Autores principales: Romøren, Maria, Pedersen, Reidar, Førde, Reidun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26769024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-016-0088-2