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Is withholding hydration a valid comfort measure in the terminally ill?

L A Printz1.   

Abstract

Withholding or withdrawing medical hydration from a dying patient may seem to be unwarranted at best, unethical or even criminal at worst. The author, however, suggests otherwise.

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Keywords:  Death and Euthanasia

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Year:  1988        PMID： 3181763

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Geriatrics        ISSN： 0016-867X


  5 in total

1.  Effects of educational intervention on nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions toward supplying artificial nutrition and hydration to terminal cancer patients.

Authors:  Li-Shan Ke; Tai-Yuan Chiu; Wen-Yu Hu; Su-Shun Lo
Journal:  Support Care Cancer       Date:  2008-03-12       Impact factor: 3.603

Review 2.  Artificial nutrition and hydration: the evolution of ethics, evidence, and policy.

Authors:  Howard Brody; Laura D Hermer; Larry D Scott; L Lee Grumbles; Julie E Kutac; Susan D McCammon
Journal:  J Gen Intern Med       Date:  2011-03-05       Impact factor: 5.128

Review 3.  Ethical dilemmas in providing nutrition.

Authors:  M E Groher
Journal:  Dysphagia       Date:  1990       Impact factor: 3.438

Review 4.  Ethical dilemmas in hospice and palliative care.

Authors:  B M Kinzbrunner
Journal:  Support Care Cancer       Date:  1995-01       Impact factor: 3.603

5.  Comfort experience in palliative care: a phenomenological study.

Authors:  Adriana Coelho; Vitor Parola; Miguel Escobar-Bravo; João Apóstolo
Journal:  BMC Palliat Care       Date:  2016-08-02       Impact factor: 3.234
  5 in total

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