Bioethical aspects of palliative care to patient oncohematologic

Authors

  • Olga Lidia Alonso Mariño Hospital Provincial Universitario “Celestino Hernández Robau”. Santa Clara. Villa Clara.
  • Ana Luisa Alonso Mariño Hospital Provincial Universitario “Celestino Hernández Robau”. Santa Clara. Villa Clara.
  • Araceli López López Hospital Provincial Universitario “Celestino Hernández Robau”. Santa Clara. Villa Clara.

Keywords:

ethics, medical, hospice care, hematologic neoplasms

Abstract

Palliative care of a patient with cancer involve a number of complex decisions with ethical implications, to provide quality of life, to understand the suffering and death and always safeguard the dignity of the person. A cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was conducted in the Ward of Palliative Care, in "Celestino Hernández Robau” University Hospital of the Province of Villa Clara, Cuba, in the period from January to June 2012 to describe the main ethical dilemmas facing health professionals related to palliative care with oncohematologic patient care. The study sample was composed of 32 professionals, there was a predominance of specialist physicians and nursing graduate, female sex, in the fourth decade of life, almost half had religious beliefs and over twenty years experience in the most ethical position on the attitude towards death was predominant orthotanasia. The main bioethical problems in oncohematologic  patient care are home-hospital death and information and communication. The ethical approach to patients with cancer is a dynamic process that requires ongoing discussion, reflection and change.

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Alonso Mariño OL, Alonso Mariño AL, López López A. Bioethical aspects of palliative care to patient oncohematologic. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2015 Mar. 25 [cited 2025 Aug. 29];9(1):95-101. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/217

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): January-March

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Oncology

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