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Comfort in palliative sedation (Compas): a transdisciplinary mixed method study protocol for linking objective assessments to subjective experiences

BACKGROUND: In case of untreatable suffering at the end of life, palliative sedation may be chosen to assure comfort by reducing the patient’s level of consciousness. An important question here is whether such sedated patients are completely free of pain. Because these patients cannot communicate an...

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Autores principales: Six, Stefaan, Laureys, Steven, Poelaert, Jan, Bilsen, Johan, Theuns, Peter, Deschepper, Reginald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5907466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29669562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0316-2