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On withholding nutrition and hydration in the terminally ill: has palliative medicine gone too far? A reply.

Patients who are dying of cancer usually give up eating and then stop drinking. This raises ethical dilemmas about providing nutritional support and fluid replacement. The decision-making process should be based on a knowledge of the risks and benefits of giving or withholding treatments. There is n...

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Hauptverfasser: Dunlop, R J, Ellershaw, J E, Baines, M J, Sykes, N, Saunders, C M
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 1995
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1376688/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7545757
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