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Weixler, D; Roider-Schur, S; Likar, R; Bozzaro, C; Daniczek, T; Feichtner, A; Gabl, C; Hammerl-Ferrari, B; Kletecka-Pulker, M; Körtner, UH; Kössler, H; Meran, JG; Miksovsky, A; Pusswald, B; Wienerroither, T; Watzke, H.
[Austrian guideline for palliative sedation therapy (long version) : Results of a Delphi process of the Austrian Palliative Society (OPG)].
Wien Med Wochenschr. 2017; 167(1-2): 31-48.
Doi: 10.1007/s10354-016-0533-3
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- BACKGROUND: Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is an important and ethically accepted therapy in the care of selected palliative care patients with otherwise unbearable suffering from refractory distress. PST is increasingly used in end-of-life care. Austria does not have a standardized ethical guideline for this exceptional practice near end of life, but there is evidence that practice varies throughout the country. OBJECTIVE: The Austrian Palliative Society (OPG) nominated a multidisciplinary working group of 16 palliative care experts and ethicists who established the national guideline on the basis of recent review work with the aim to adhere to the Europeans Association of Palliative Care's (EAPC) framework on palliative sedation therapy respecting Austrians legal, structural and cultural background. METHODS: Consensus was achieved by a four-step sequential Delphi process. The Delphi-process was strictly orientated to the recently published EUROIMPACT-sedation-study-checklist and to the AGREE-2-tool. Additionally national stakeholders participated in the reflection of the results. RESULTS: As a result of a rigorous consensus process the long version of the Austrian National Palliative Sedation Guideline contains 112 statements within eleven domains and is supplemented by a philosophers excursus on suffering. CONCLUSIONS: By establishing a national guideline for palliative sedation therapy using the Delphi technique for consensus and stakeholder involvement the Austrian Palliative Society aims to ensure nationwide good practice of palliative sedation therapy. Screening for the practicability and efficacy of this guideline will be a future task.
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- Austria - administration & dosage
- Conscious Sedation - methods
- Delphi Technique - administration & dosage
- Humans - administration & dosage
- Palliative Care - methods
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- Terminal Care - methods
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- Palliative sedation therapy
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- Unbearable suffering
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