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We know that end-of-life practices in medicine vary widely across countries. The paper by Schildman et al (see page 327) reports a questionnaire survey of all members of the German Society for Palliative Medicine using the German language version of the EURELD survey instrument.1 The study has a goo...
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2011
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 37, Issue: 6, Pages: 325 |
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| Summary: | We know that end-of-life practices in medicine vary widely across countries. The paper by Schildman et al (see page 327) reports a questionnaire survey of all members of the German Society for Palliative Medicine using the German language version of the EURELD survey instrument.1 The study has a good response rate of 55.8% and finds that decisions to withdraw or withhold treatment are very common, but that German physicians estimate that the life-shortening effects of most of these decisions are very limited, although in 17 of 234 cases the life-shortening effect was estimated to be more than 1 month.Another interesting and somewhat provocative paper in this issue also discusses end-of-life issues, in this case decision making for … |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/jme.2011.045096 |