What is it about?
The article enligthen the issue of truth an lying in end of life care. Can it be ethicaly justified to withold truth from patients and their relatives or should the truth always be told? We scrutinize stroke team members reasons for this from an ethical perspective.
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Why is it important?
Stroke team members arguments for or against truth-telling or witholding of truth are scrutinied and provides an understanding of their reasoning and at the same gives the ethical view of those arguments. This knowledge can be used to better understand carers and their decisions and thereby help them develop a more ethically grounded care.
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This article gives insights in carers reasoning about a sensitive topic and provides tips for how such situations can be handled in a more ethical way and with better ethically grounded arguments.
Ms Åsa Rejnö
Skaraborg hospital and University West, Sweden
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This page is a summary of: Reasoning about truth-telling in end-of-life care of patients with acute stroke, Nursing Ethics, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0969733016664974.
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