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A1 Swart SJ, Brinkkemper T, Rietjens JC, et al
T1 PHysicians' and nurses' experiences with continuous palliative sedation in the netherlands
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2010
FD July 26
VO 170
IS 14
SP 1271
OP 1274
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.226
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.226
AB 
Continuous palliative sedation is regarded as an indispensable treatment for alleviating intolerable refractory symptoms in dying patients.1 This far-reaching treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach, at least involving physicians and nurses.2- 3 As this practice has, to our knowledge, not been studied from both these perspectives at the same time, we describe physicians' and nurses' experiences with continuous sedation until death, focusing on patients' characteristics, decision making, and the effects of sedation.