Last Days of Life–for health professionals (PDQ®)
SECTIONS
- Overview
- Anticipating the End of Life
- Symptoms During the Final Months, Weeks, and Days of Life
- Care Decisions in the Final Weeks, Days, and Hours of Life
- Forgoing Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatments
- Dying in the Hospital or Intensive Care Unit
- The Dying Person and Intractable Suffering
- Grief and Bereavement
- Challenges to the Professional Caregiver
- Changes to This Summary (02/09/2016)
- About This PDQ Summary
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Changes to This Summary (02/09/2016)
The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.
Added text about a prospective observational study that examined vital signs in the last 7 days of life (cited Bruera et al. as reference 12).
This summary is written and maintained by the PDQ Supportive and Palliative Care Editorial Board, which is editorially independent of NCI. The summary reflects an independent review of the literature and does not represent a policy statement of NCI or NIH. More information about summary policies and the role of the PDQ Editorial Boards in maintaining the PDQ summaries can be found on the About This PDQ Summary and PDQ® - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database pages.
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