TY  - JOUR
T1  - PHysicians' and nurses' experiences with continuous palliative sedation in the netherlands
AU  - Swart SJ, Brinkkemper T, Rietjens JC, et al
Y1  - 2010/07/26
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.226
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1271
EP  - 1274
VL  - 170
IS  - 14
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.226
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.226
ER  -