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Responses regarding whether to administer tranquillizers and morphine |
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| Argument |
Doctors/public |
Percentage (CI) |
Priority (%) |
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| Tranquillizers and morphine should be provided in order to keep the patient free of symptom even though it might hasten death |
Doctors General public |
97.6 (95.8–99.4) 95.9 (94.2–97.6) |
94.4% 76.2% |
| Tranquillizers and morphine should be provided in order to shorten the dying process |
Doctors General public |
9.9 (6.4–13.4) 45.7 (41.3–50.1) |
0.7% 5.8% |
| Tranquillizers and morphine should be provided but without risking the acceleration of death |
Doctors General public |
29.6 (24.3–34.9) 49.2 (44.8–53.6) |
1.9% 12.2% |
| Tranquillizers and morphine should not be provided if the purpose is to hasten the dying process |
Doctors General public |
72.7 (66.5–77.9) 52.0 (47.6–56.4) |
3.0% 5.8% |
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This table shows the response pattern of the doctors and members of the general public who answered the question regarding whether to provide tranquillizers and morphine to a terminally ill patient disconnected from life-sustaining ventilator treatment. The results are presented as proportions of those who agreed 'mostly' or 'entirely', with a 95% confidence interval (CI). The percentages of those who considered the argument to be the most important are also presented. | |||
Rydvall and Lynöe Critical Care 2008 12:R13 doi:10.1186/cc6786 |
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