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Possible age-related differences in healthcare professionals’ perspectives on younger and older patients’ autonomy and decision-making in the context of sedation in specialised palliative care: exploratory secondary qualitative content and linguistic conversation analysis of interviews with healthcare professionals

BACKGROUND: Chronic illnesses and multi-morbidity can threaten competence and independence, particularly in old age. Autonomy becomes increasingly important in the context of sedation, as in this case medication leads to (further) changes of consciousness. The study aimed to identify possible age-re...

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Autores principales: Sandra, Kurkowski, Maria, Heckel, Larissa, Pfaller, Joachim, Peters, Jeremias, Bazata, Eva, Schildmann, Christoph, Ostgathe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35550117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-022-00963-y