According to the WHO (2020), the aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life of people with life-threatening illnesses, as well as that of their families, and to address their physical, psychological and spiritual needs. One aspect of this aim is to provide patients with sufficient and accurate information about the entire disease process. The right to this information is specified at the global level in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. The latter declaration was approved by UNESCO on October 19, 2005 based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948. Thus, a relevant issue in the setting of palliative care is the phenomenon of concealment or misrepresentation of information that patients may need or require.This phenomenon is known in English as Withdrawing or Withholding Information. It is rare in Anglo-Saxon countries, but very common in Southern European cultures (Gysels et al., 2012) and in
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