TE Quill - JaMa, 2000 - Am Med Assoc Discussions about end-of-life issues are difficult for clinicians to initiate. Patients, their
families, and clinicians frequently collude to avoid mentioning death or dying, even when the
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HM Chochinov, T Hack, T Hassard, LJ Kristjanson, S … - The Lancet, 2002 - Elsevier We did a cross-sectional study of a cohort of terminally ill patients with cancer, who had a life
expectancy of less than 6 months. We enrolled 213 patients from two palliative care units in
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- ►almageriatria.org [PDF] L Ganzini, ER Goy, LL Miller, TA Harvath, A … - The New England …, 2003 - nejm.highwire.org From the Department of Veterans Affairs (LG, ERG, MAD); the Department of Psychiatry (LG,
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face a variety of distressing symptoms. Of these, perhaps none is as detrimental to quality of
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- ►annals.org [PDF] JAC Rietjens, A van der Heide, AM Vrakking … - Annals of internal …, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians Participants: Nationwide stratified sample of 482 physicians; 410 responded and 211 of these
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and their application in new circumstances is a necessary exercise. The fifth edition of the College's
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