Sedatives and sedation at the end of life: a nursing home retrospective cohort study.

Eva SchildmannAnna BolzaniSophie MeestersBettina GrüneAlina MarheinekeConstanze RemiClaudia Bausewein

Published in: BMJ supportive & palliative care (2019)

Compared with published data on continuous deep sedation, moderate or deep sedation was less frequent in this nursing home and never labelled as 'sedation'. Multicentre mixed-methods research is needed to gain representative and more detailed data on sedation practices at the end of life in nursing homes.

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