The empirical evidence suggests some movement toward consensus on the practice of
palliative sedation. However, a continued need exists for evidence-informed practice …

Objectives The objective of our study was to determine whether, and to what degree, the
ethical dimension was present in clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on palliative sedation …

Palliative sedation therapy (PST) has become a frequent practice in end‐of‐life care and
advocated in the literature as a less problematic alternative to practices of physician …

Objective: The principal aim of this study was to identify, systematically and transparently,
clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on palliative sedation from around the world. Methods: A …

Background Sedation in palliative care has received growing attention in recent years; and
so have guidelines, position statements, and related literature that provide …

The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) considers sedation to be an important
and necessary therapy in the care of selected palliative care patients with otherwise …

Palliative sedation for terminally ill patients, with a life expectancy of less than two weeks to
control patients' intolerable pain and symptoms, is an intervention that raises many legal and …

Background The aim of this paper is to critically discuss some of the ethically controversial
issues regarding continuous deep palliative sedation at the end of life that are addressed in …

Purpose End-of-life sedation, though increasingly prevalent and widespread internationally,
remains one of the most highly debated medical practices in the context of palliative …

The aim of this article was to review the ethical debate concerning palliative sedation.
Although recent guidelines articulate the differences between palliative sedation and …