Palliative care 2016

Medical decision making in palliative care

There is a need for prospective randomised trials in palliative care and end of life issues!? But:

-Trials measure only what is measurable and not always what is meaningfull (QoL) !

-Moral and ethical issues are always coming up NOT to do clinical trials in this group of very frail patients!

Is it not immoral and unethical if no research is done to solve the many difficult questions at the end of life?