End of life choices : consensus and controversy

End of life choices : consensus and controversy / Fiona Randall, R.S. Downie.

Developments are taking place in palliative care in which 'patient choice' has become a central idea, and patients have an enlarged idea of their best interests. This book creates debate among all those involved in care of the terminally ill including specialists, policy makers, researcher...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randall, Fiona
Other Authors: Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care.
Hospice care.
Decision making.
decision making.
MEDICAL > Terminal Care.
Hospice care
Decision making
Palliative treatment
Terminal care
Ethik
Sterbebegleitung
Sterbehilfe
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Table of Contents:
  • Patient choice and consent
  • Choice and best interests: clinical decision-making in end of life care
  • Three logical distintions in decision-making
  • Choice and best interests: life-prolonging treatments
  • Choice and best interests: symptom control and the maintenance of function
  • Choice and best interests: sedation to relieve otherwise intractable symptoms (terminal sedation)
  • Choice and advance care planning (ACP): definition, professional responsibilities
  • Preferred place of care and death
  • Choice, assisted suicide and euthanasia
  • Best interests: extended senses.

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