Palliative care in intensive care units: an integrative review
Enio Teixeira Molina Filho,
Aline Augusto Olivero,
Sanderland José Tavares Gurgel
et al.
Abstract:Our integrative review sought to identify therapeutic decisions for palliative care in intensive care units. Bibliographic search conducted on the Virtual Health Library using the descriptors “palliative care,” “intensive care units” and “delivery of health care” returned 1,579 studies, of which seven were included in the final sample. Textual analysis was performed using the Iramuteq software. From the main results and words—”patient,” “end of life,” “family,” “intensive care unit,” “hospital”—we produced a c… Show more
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