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No Negative Impact of Palliative Sedation on Relatives’ Experience of the Dying Phase and Their Wellbeing after the Patient’s Death: An Observational Study

BACKGROUND: Palliative sedation is the widely-used intervention of administering sedating agents to induce a state of unconsciousness to take away a dying patient’s perception of otherwise irrelievable symptoms. However, it remains questionable whether this ethically complex intervention is benefici...

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Autores principales: Bruinsma, S. M., van der Heide, A., van der Lee, M. L., Vergouwe, Y., Rietjens, J. A. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26871717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149250