Involvement of Specialist Palliative Care in a Stroke Unit in Austria—Challenges for Families and Stroke Teams

Purpose: Severe stroke poses vast challenges. Appropriate goals of care according to individual preferences and values have to be developed under time restrictions—often impeded by limited ability to communicate and the need for decisions by surrogates. The aim of our study was to explore the decisi...

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Main Authors: Renate Riesinger, Klaus Altmann, Stefan Lorenzl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.683624/full