Catriona Kennedy; Patricia Brooks-Young; Carol Brunton Gray; Phil Larkin; Michael Connolly; Bodil Wilde-Larsson; Maria Larsson; Tracy Smith; Susie Chater
The aim of this review was to examine the evidence as to how patients
are judged by clinicians as being in the final hours or days of life.The findings support the explicit recognition of ‘uncertainty in diagnosing dying’ and the
need to work with and within this concept. Clinical decision making needs to
allow for recovery where that potential exists, but equally there is the need
to avoid futile interventions
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