Multidisciplinary care of the terminally ill patient.
This article discusses sedation, the assessment and management of physical symptoms, and symptom-assessment scales for the terminally ill patient. The evaluation of the ability of the family or community to care for a terminally ill patient in pain also is discussed.
O'Mahony
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Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
Coyle
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Payne
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D016292:Procedural Sedation; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000628:therapy; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000379:methods*; D019452:Terminally Ill