Impact of end-of-life respiratory modalities on quality of dying and death and symptom relief in patients with interstitial lung disease: a multicenter descriptive cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Respiratory modalities applied at the end of life may affect the burden of distressing symptoms and quality of dying and death (QODD) among patients with end-stage interstitial lung disease (ILD); however, there have been few studies into respiratory modalities applied to these p...

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Main Authors: Takafumi Koyauchi, Yuzo Suzuki, Kazuki Sato, Hironao Hozumi, Masato Karayama, Kazuki Furuhashi, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Noriyuki Enomoto, Yutaro Nakamura, Naoki Inui, Koshi Yokomura, Shiro Imokawa, Hidenori Nakamura, Tatsuya Morita, Takafumi Suda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-04-01
Series:Respiratory Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-022-02004-x