National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) position statement and commentary on the use of palliative sedation in imminently dying terminally ill patients
J Pain Symptom Manage
.
2010 May;39(5):914-23.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.01.009.
Authors
Timothy W Kirk
1
,
Margaret M Mahon
;
Palliative Sedation Task Force of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Ethics Committee
Collaborators
Palliative Sedation Task Force of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Ethics Committee
:
Timothy W Kirk
,
Kathleen Bliss
,
Pamela Dalinis
,
Margaret M Mahon
,
Martha McCusker
,
W Brian Guthrie
,
Marian Silverman
,
Joseph Wadas
Affiliation
1
Department of History & Philosophy, City University of New York-York College, Jamaica, New York 11451, USA. timothy.kirk@york.cuny.edu
PMID:
20471551
DOI:
10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.01.009
No abstract available
Publication types
Practice Guideline
MeSH terms
Anesthetics / therapeutic use*
Conscious Sedation / methods*
Humans
Stress, Psychological / drug therapy*
Terminal Care / methods*
Terminally Ill
Substances
Anesthetics