Is there a role for sustainable medicine in wound care?
Is it ethical to prolong life by providing aggressive palliative care to chronically ill patients with a short life expectancy? Here, Andrea Cavicchioli argues that epidemiology studies can help us to resolve this difficult ethical dilemma.
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Azienda USL di Modena, Italy. a.cavicchioli@ausl.mo.it
D002908:Chronic Disease; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D019452:Terminally Ill; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy