Dying patients given needless treatment, major study finds More than a third of dying elderly patients receive "invasive and potentially harmful" treatments in their last weeks of life, the biggest review of its kind has found.
Analysis of data from 1.2 million patients worldwide found patients being subjected to "excessive" and unnecessary treatments that make no difference to the course of their illness.
Researchers said some of the pressure stemmed from families who struggled to accept that nothing more could be done for their loved ones, and expected "heroic" interventions from doctors. The Daily Telegraph
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Analysis of data from 1.2 million patients worldwide found patients being subjected to "excessive" and unnecessary treatments that make no difference to the course of their illness.
Researchers said some of the pressure stemmed from families who struggled to accept that nothing more could be done for their loved ones, and expected "heroic" interventions from doctors. The Daily Telegraph
See also:
- Non-beneficial treatments in hospital at the end of life: a systematic review on extent of the problem (open access) International Journal for Quality in Health Care
- Families cause loved ones to suffer at the end of life by 'begging doctors for unnecessary treatments' The Daily Mail
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