[Informed consent in the terminal care].
One of the biggest problems to perform terminal care is how to communicate with patient's families. Mental stresses of patients who are expected to die and of their families are extremely serious. To release their stresses, kind and detailed explanation of patient condition should be given every day by the clinical team consisted of doctors and nurses. We should realize that mental support given by the clinical staff would be an important care point to alleviate the stresses of patients and to alleviate the stresses and the strains of their families. And we can say that performing terminal care is essential to promote informed consent.
Kataura
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Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
D005190:Family; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013727:Terminal Care; D014342:Truth Disclosure