Purpose: When cancer has advanced to a stage in which cure becomes unlikely, patients
may have to consider the aim of further treatment. We studied the relationship of patients’ …

© 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. expected to die “imminently”(ie,
within no more than 2 weeks) and have refractory symptoms. The continued administration of …

CONTEXT: Observer-based sedation scales have been used to provide a measurable estimate
of the comfort of nonalert patients in palliative sedation. However, their usefulness and …

Objective/Background: About 15% of grievers experience complicated grief. We determined
cross-sectional and longitudinal relations of grief and complicated grief with sleep duration …

CONTEXT: Continuous palliative sedation has been the focus of extensive international
debates in the field of end-of-life decision making. Although nurses may be important …

Context One palliative care approach that is increasingly being used at home for relieving
intolerable suffering in terminally ill patients is continuous sedation until death. Its provision …

Background: Sex-related differences in end-of-life decisions (EOLD) are underresearched
and unexplored. Objectives: To investigate whether there are (1) differences in demographic …

Objective To present the knowledge, experiences and attitudes of the general population,
patients, relatives and health care professionals concerning written advance euthanasia …

Background Healthy lifestyle might improve outcome among colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors.
In this study we investigated the proportion of survivors who meet recommended lifestyle …

… Arevalo JJ, Brinkkemper T, van der Heide A, Rietjens JA, Ribbe M, Deliens L, Loer SA,
Zuurmond WW, Perez RS, AMROSE Site Study Group … Swart SJ, van der Heide A, van …