Palliative care in COPD patients: is it only an end-of-life issue?
The presence of acute or chronic respiratory failure is often seen as a terminal phase of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A great variability in end-of-life practice is observed in these patients mainly because physicians are not always able to correctly predict survival. There is a need for...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Respiratory Society
2012-12-01
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| Series: | European Respiratory Review |
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| Online Access: | http://err.ersjournals.com/content/21/126/347.full.pdf+html |