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Jean-louis Beal

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Le « tri par carte » : une méthode de recherche devenant outil d’aide à la décision dans les situations de fin de vie du patient Alzheimer

2009

EpidemiologyPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthRevue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique
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"Card sorting" : a tool for research in ethics on treatment decision-making at the end of life in Alzheimer patients with a life threatening complica…

2011

Abstract Background End stage dementia is a particularly difficult aspect of care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. In care institutions, caregivers and family are concerned by treatment decision-making for an acute life threatening complication occurring in Alzheimer patients at the end of life. How should the best treatment pathway be decided: to treat or not to treat? Which arguments are used for decision-making? These are mainly ethical questions which are currently difficult to express and investigate. Methods/Design Cross sectional multicentre study of clinical cases involving 67 health centres (university hospitals, general hospitals, local hospitals and ho…

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