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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Main Authors: Stefaan Six, Steven Laureys, Jan Poelaert, Johan Bilsen, Peter Theuns, Reginald Deschepper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12904-018-0316-2