TOO MUCH MEDICINE AT THE END OF LIFE

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This article proposes a solution to stop non-beneficial treatments for older people dying f natural causes. The clinical prediction tool aims to give doctors and families more prognostic confidence to stop “heroic” interventions and instead withdrawing or withholding potentially harmful treatments to allow for a "good death".

Subject

End of life care, palliative care conference

Period15 Sep 2017

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Media coverage

  • TitlePlease don't let this happen to me
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletCroakey
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    Date15/09/17
    Producer/AuthorMelissa Sweett & Marie McInerney/Magnolia Cardona
    PersonsMagnolia Cardona
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