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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The quality of dying and death: a systematic review of measures-- Palliative Medicine

These are important issues for us as patients/caregivers:

"Less than half were based on an explicit definition of quality of dying and death and even fewer relied on a conceptual model that incorporated multidimensionality and subjective determination.The specified duration of the dying and death phase ranged from the last months to hours of life."

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