作者
Josep Porta-Sales, Iris Crespo, Cristina Monforte-Royo, Mar Marín, Sonia Abenia-Chavarria, Albert Balaguer
发表日期
2019/6
期刊
Palliative Medicine
卷号
33
期号
6
页码范围
570-577
出版商
Sage Publications
简介
Background
An important concern of healthcare professionals when exploring the wish to hasten death with patients is the risk of causing them some type of distress.
Aim
To assess the opinion of hospitalized patients with advanced cancer about the proactive assessment of the wish to hasten death.
Design
Descriptive, cross-sectional study.
Setting/participants
We assessed 193 advanced cancer patients admitted to an oncology ward for the wish to hasten death using a semi-structured clinical interview. After the assessment the participants were surveyed to determine whether they found the interview upsetting and, if so to what extent, and also their opinion regarding the assessment’s importance.
Results
The wish to hasten death was reported by 46 (23.8%) patients. The majority of patients (94.8%) did not find talking about the wish to hasten death to be upsetting, regardless of whether they presented it or not. The …
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