#8484. Medical decisions concerning the end of life for cancer patients in three Colombian hospitals – a survey study

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Abstract:
We document medical end-of-life decisions concerning cancer patients. Physicians that made the decision to end the life of a cancer patient answered a questionnaire regarding their end-of-life decisions. It encompasses decisions regarding the withdrawal or withholding of potentially life-prolonging medical treatments, intensifying measures to alleviate pain or other symptoms with hastening of death as a potential side effect, and administration, supply or prescription of drugs with an explicit intention to hasten death. It turns out that physicians often fail to communicate the potentially life-shortening effects of treatment decisions (passive euthanasia).
Keywords:
Cancer; Decision making; End of life; Euthanasia; Medical decision; Palliative care; Palliative sedation

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