ReviewSAGE open medicine2021
Ethical considerations at the end-of-life care.
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90 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 176 citations in OpenAlex.
- The principle of double effect in palliative care: a systematic review of ethical, legal, and clinical perspectives.BMC palliative care · 2026Pooled it
- Attitudes of undergraduate medical students towards end-of-life decisions: a systematic review of influencing factors.BMC medical education · 2025Pooled it
- Ethical considerations and multidisciplinary care for pediatric patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a narrative review with a systematic search.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Integrating Shared Decision-Making into Undergraduate Oncology Education: A Pedagogical Framework.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2024Pooled it
- Physicians' attitudes and experiences about withholding/withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics: a systematic review of quantitative evidence.BMC palliative care · 2023Pooled it
- Improved quality of life and prolonged survival with add-on homeopathic treatment in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, three-arm, multicenter study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Trial
- Factors Associated With Family Caregivers' Attitudes Toward Withholding Life-Sustaining Treatment in Older Adults With Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Patterns of Care in the Final Week of Life: A Comparative Analysis of Aggressive Treatment Versus Comfort-Centered Care Across Healthcare Settings.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Prognostic factors of survival in corticobasal syndrome and corticobasal degeneration: A scoping review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Minimal comfort feeding in palliative care in the light of the Anscombean-Thomistic virtue ethics theory of action.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Nursing home staff's experiences and reflections regarding disordered eating among older adults: a focus group and vignette-based study.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Ethics based educational interventions on end-of-life care for undergraduate nursing students: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- Transfusion in Hospice-Palliative Care.Journal of hospice and palliative care · 2026Article
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- Ethical challenges in end-of-life cancer care: a qualitative study among health-care providers in Iran.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- A qualitative study of the ethical issues encountered at end-of-life care at a university teaching hospital in Nigeria.Journal of medical ethics · 2026Article
- End-of-Life Decision Making in Internal Medicine: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Clinical Ethics Consultations.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Palliative and end-of-life care in people with and without intellectual disabilities in primary care: identification, survival time, and healthcare utilization.Family practice · 2026Article
- Reflections on Consciousness in Intensive Care.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Review
- Unravelling the complexities of end-of-life critical care interventions: what drives medico-legal complaints to physicians?BMC health services research · 2026Article
30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The goal of end-of-life care for dying patients is to prevent or relieve suffering as much as possible while respecting the patients' desires. However, physicians face many ethical challenges in end-of-life care. Since the decisions to be made may concern patients' family members and society as well as the patients, it is important to protect the rights, dignity, and vigor of all parties involved in the clinical ethical decision-making process. Understanding the principles underlying biomedical ethics is important for physicians to solve the problems they face in end-of-life care. The main situations that create ethical difficulties for healthcare professionals are the decisions regarding resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, artificial nutrition and hydration, terminal sedation, withholding and withdrawing treatments, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Five ethical principles guide healthcare professionals in the management of these situations.
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