Consideration of hastening death among hospice patients and their families.

Abstract:

:The purpose of this study was to describe hospice social workers' perceptions of cases where hospice patients or their family members expressed a desire to hasten the patient's death. Surveys were mailed to hospice social workers (n=212) in two Southeastern states. Response rate was 36%. Of the 73 respondents, 56.2% had a patient and 26.1% had a patient's family member express a desire to hasten the patient's death. Most patients had a cancer diagnosis (70.4%) and were predominantly male (66.6%), white (94.4%), and were married/had a partner (66.7%). Poor quality of life (28.3%) and concern for suffering (28.3%) were the most common reasons reported for the request to hasten death. These data suggest that the desire for hastened death is not uncommon among hospice patients. Social workers perceive these requests to be related primarily to unmet needs.

journal_name

J Pain Symptom Manage

authors

Arnold EM,Artin KA,Person JL,Griffith DL

doi

10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2003.10.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-06-01 00:00:00

pages

523-32

issue

6

eissn

0885-3924

issn

1873-6513

pii

S0885392404001101

journal_volume

27

pub_type

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