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Explaining how medical doctors learn about and understand the approach to the end-of-life in the workplace

2020-01-01

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Background For patients approaching the end-of-life, treatments with life-prolonging intent can be futile, wasteful, and harmful. Equally, harm may be caused by prematurely treating patients as if they are dying. In order to provide a high standard of care, and align with clinical guidance, doctors must appropriately discern when a patient is approaching the end-of-life. This thesis takes the necessary and novel s...

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c22021fb-88f9-597d-9287-c18837c16062
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10.7488/era/527
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