Sentence examples for incurable patients from inspiring English sources

An institution like St Luke's, run by Battie, held both "curable" and "incurable" patients.

The staff didn't distinguish between curable and incurable patients, putting some patients, who might otherwise survive, at risk of dying from infections.

The history of the ambulance begins in ancient times, with the use of carts to transport incurable patients by force.

No one wants to see incurable patients travel abroad and spend enormous amounts of money just to extend their lives by a few months, and Dr. Polyakov's concern is understandable.

As these patients are considered incurable patients on palliative therapy, survival was not considered an appropriate and relevant endpoint.

Although bone metastases are incurable, patients survive several years suffering serious morbidity, including fractures, spinal cord compression, severe bone pain, and hypercalcemia [5], [27].

As mentioned earlier palliative care is approached in DDKM as Standard 2.19.1; 'Palliative care of the incurable patient and the patient's relatives'.

This standard aims at securing that the institution provides worthy, respectful, evidence-based palliative treatment to the incurable patient, as well as support and care for the patient's relatives.

Euthanasia, ie administration of lethal drugs with the explicit intention of hastening death at the explicit request of the incurable patient, was decriminalised in Belgium in 2002 under strict legal terms [ 6].

In Denmark, palliative care is approached in the hospitals' national accreditation procedure, the 'Danish Healthcare Quality Programme' - DDKM (a Danish abbreviation for 'Den Danske Kvalitets Model') in the Standard 2.19.1: 'Palliative care of the incurable patient and the patient's relatives'.

The surgeons related that they experience the dilemma of staring and withholding treatment especially when working with incurable cancer patients, very old patients with additional physical and mental diseases, and with emergency and trauma patients.