Comfort in palliative sedation (Compas): a transdisciplinary mixed method study protocol for linking objective assessments to subjective experiences
Abstract Background In case of untreatable suffering at the end of life, palliative sedation may be chosen to assure comfort by reducing the patient’s level of consciousness. An important question here is whether such sedated patients are completely free of pain. Because these patients cannot commun...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Palliative Care |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12904-018-0316-2 |