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Life worth living: cross-sectional study on the prevalence and determinants of the wish to die in elderly patients hospitalized in an internal medicine ward

BACKGROUND: Elderly people frequently express the wish to die: this ranges from a simple wish for a natural death to a more explicit request for death. The frequency of the wish to die and its associated factors have not been assessed in acute hospitalization settings. This study aimed to investigat...

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Autores principales: Bornet, Marc-Antoine, Rubli Truchard, Eve, Waeber, Gérard, Vollenweider, Peter, Bernard, Mathieu, Schmied, Laure, Marques-Vidal, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7491164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32928145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01762-x