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End of Life Care Articles

A Patient's Perspective on Grief

Published with the permission of VIHA (Vancouver Island Health Authority)

When you face your own death, you grieve. This means you will have a wide range of thoughts, feelings, and responses over the course of your illness. Your reactions may be so strong that you feel frightened or overwhelmed – this is quite normal. It helps to be prepared for them, because these reactions will be a necessary part of your grieving. Click here for full Online Version

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End-of-life Care for Terminally ill Participants in Clinical Research

By MANISH AGRAWAL, M.D., and MARION DANIS, M.D. Reprinted with permission.

Efforts to improve end-of-life care in the United States have paid little attention to the unique concerns of participants in clinical research who are terminally ill. In this paper we focus attention on and offer an analysis of how to meet the needs of these individuals. To address their concerns, we consider how to reconcile two important tasks: providing optimal end-of-life care and conducting clinical research.
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