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From: Caring for patients during voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking (VSED): experiences of a palliative care team in Germany

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Evaluation of coping strategies (%, * = p < 0.05). 1: The internal team discussion offered enough space and safety to discuss uncertainties and worries in regards to a possible accompaniment of VSED patients. 2: The specialist psychiatric assessment of the patients’ ability to consent helped me in accepting the patients’ wish to hasten death. 3: After the ethical case discussions, I felt safer in accompanying the patients during VSED. 4: In general, ethical case discussions should take place before deciding on accompanying patients during VSED. 5: The case supervision helped me in coping with the experiences made during the process of VSED

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