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Palliative care registers: infringement on human rights?
Abstract
A personal view made in light of the recent news article regarding a husband wanting to sue Addenbrooke's hospital over a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation decision. This article aims to highlight how the rolling out of cross boundary palliative care registers may be more at risk of infringing human rights.
- Autonomy
- elderly and terminally Ill
- general medicine/internal medicine
- informed consent
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Competing interests None.
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