Palliative sedation: need for consensus guidelines and standards: comment on "Continuous deep sedation until death in Belgium: a nationwide survey"

MeSH terms

• Analgesics, Opioid / administration & dosage
• Belgium / epidemiology
• Consciousness
• Death*
• Deep Sedation* / methods
• Deep Sedation* / standards
• Deep Sedation* / statistics & numerical data
• Deep Sedation* / trends
• Health Care Surveys
• Humans
• Informed Consent / statistics & numerical data
• Morphine / administration & dosage
• Narcotics / administration & dosage
• Palliative Care* / methods
• Palliative Care* / standards
• Palliative Care* / statistics & numerical data
• Palliative Care* / trends
• Practice Guidelines as Topic*
• Quality of Life*
• Stress, Psychological / prevention & control
• Terminal Care* / methods
• Terminal Care* / standards
• Terminal Care* / statistics & numerical data
• Terminal Care* / trends