Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2013
Randomized Controlled TrialFamily factors affect clinician attitudes in pediatric end-of-life decision making: a randomized vignette study.
Conflicts between families and clinicians in pediatric end-of-life (EOL) care cause distress for providers, dissatisfaction for patients' families, and potential suffering for terminally ill children. ⋯ In this randomized vignette study, we have shown that family factors, particularly how involved a family seems to be in a child's life, affect what clinicians think is ethically appropriate in challenging EOL cases. Knowledge of how a family's degree of involvement may affect clinicians should be helpful to the clinical ethics consultants and offer some degree of insight to the clinicians themselves.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2013
Review Case Reports Meta AnalysisDepression in terminally ill patients: dilemmas in diagnosis and treatment.