Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review of measurement instruments
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Assessment of the wish to hasten death in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review of measurement instruments
BACKGROUND Patients with advanced conditions may present a wish to hasten death. Assessing this wish is complex due to the nature of the phenomenon and the difficulty of conceptualising it. AIM To identify and analyse existing instruments for assessing the wish to hasten death and to rate their reported psychometric properties. DESIGN Systematic review based on PRISMA guidelines. The COnsen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Palliative Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0269-2163,1477-030X
DOI: 10.1177/0269216316669867