The Role of Palliative Care in Chronic Progressive Neurological Diseases—A Survey Amongst Neurologists in the Netherlands
Background: Chronic progressive neurological diseases like high grade glioma (HGG), Parkinson's disease (PD), and multiple sclerosis (MS) are incurable, and associated with increasing disability including cognitive impairment, and reduced life expectancy. Patients with these diseases have complex care needs. Therefore, timely advance care planning (ACP) is required. Our aim was to investigate timing and content of discussions on treatment restrictions, i.e., to initiate, withhold, or withdraw treatment in patients with HGG, PD, and MS, from the neurologists' perspective.Methods: We performed a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Frontiers in Neurology, Vol 9 (2019) |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
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Schlagwörter: | palliative care / advance care planning / nervous system diseases / decision making / Parkinson's disease / multiple sclerosis / Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system / RC346-429 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26800959 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.01157 |