Continuous Deep Sedation in Medical Practice: A Descriptive Study

Continuous deep sedation for patients nearing death in the Netherlands: descriptive study.

OBJECTIVES To study the practice of continuous deep sedation in 2005 in the Netherlands and compare it with findings from 2001. DESIGN Questionnaire study about random samples of deaths reported to a central death registry in 2005 and 2001. SETTING Nationwide physician study in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Reporting physicians received a questionnaire about the medical decisions that pre...

Continuous deep sedation in patients nearing death.

The practice of continuous deep sedation until death in Flanders (Belgium), the Netherlands, and the U.K.: a comparative study.

CONTEXT Existing empirical evidence shows that continuous deep sedation until death is given in about 15% of all deaths in Flanders, Belgium (BE), 8% in The Netherlands (NL), and 17% in the U.K. OBJECTIVES This study compares characteristics of continuous deep sedation to explain these varying frequencies. METHODS In Flanders, BE (2007) and NL (2005), death certificate studies were conducte...

Continuous deep sedation until death in Belgium: a nationwide survey.

uria, despite an absence of relevant clinical manifestations. Although many health care providers realize that excessive antimicrobial use can be harmful and should be avoided, some clearly need to be reminded about the complete absence of evidence supporting antimicrobial therapy for abnormal urinalysis findings in patients who lack genitourinary symptoms and of the importance of adjusting tre...

Continuous deep sedation: physicians' experiences in six European countries.

Continuous deep sedation (CDS) is sometimes used to treat refractory symptoms in terminally ill patients. The aim of this paper was to estimate the frequency and characteristics of CDS in six European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. Deaths reported to death registries were sampled and the reporting doctors received a mailed questionnaire about the m...