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Multidisciplinary care of the terminally ill patient
1Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|June 3, 2000
Abstract:
This article discusses sedation, the assessment and management of physical symptoms, and symptom-assessment scales for the terminally ill patient. The evaluation of the ability of the family or community to care for a terminally ill patient in pain also is discussed.