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Medical decision making in palliative care
1 Patient and family
How decide patients at the end of their life ?
9% decides self (= complete autonomy)
73% collaborate
younger, better educated, fitter patients
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seraching for agreement between patients’
preferences and physicians views
18% follow the decision of the physician
Oral presentation of a Study in London
Research congress EAPC dec 2000 Berlin