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Palliative Care for Muslim Patients

Primary Author: Mohammad Zafir al-Shahri, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center

This article from the Journal of Supportive Oncology (Volume 3, Number 6) includes the following topics:

- The meaning of suffering in Islam
- Islam and medical ethics
- Cleanliness
- Modesty
- Dietary considerations
- Longevity of a terminally ill patient
- Religious practices around death

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Date Last Modified 11/01/2005 Article

Kindness and the end of life

Primary Author: Paul Rousseau, VA Medical Center, Phoenix

Brief article from the Western Journal of Medicine (Volume 174, Issue 4) discussing ways physicians can exhibit kindness to patients at the end of life, even when facing their own sense of failure or fear.

Date Last Modified 04/01/2001 Article

Information needs at the end of life: a content analysis of one person's story

Primary Author: Lynda M. Baker, Wayne State University

Article from the Journal of the Medical Library Association (volume 92, issue 1) describing the nature of nature of information needed at the end of life. Four categories of needs were identified, including physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial, and information needs germane to each category were identified.

Date Last Modified 01/01/2004 Article

Evidence-Based Case Review: Addressing the religious and spiritual needs of dying patients

Primary Author: Daniel P. Sulmasy, The John J Conley Department of Ethics St Vincent's, Manhattan

Article from the Western Journal of Medicine (Volume 175) offering a review of literature about the spiritual needs of a patient at the end of life, with a focus on physician-patient communication.

Date Last Modified 10/01/2001 Article, Case example/study

Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care

Primary Author: Harvey Max Chochinov, University of Manitoba

Article from CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (volume 56). Dr. Chochinov provides a brief overview of psychiatric challenges in end-of-life care, a discussion of spiritual or existential suffering toward the end of life, a model of dignity, and practical examples of diagnostic questions and therapeutic interventions to preserve dignity.

Date Last Modified 03/01/2006 Article