Doctors’, Nurses’ Opinions Differ about End-of-Life Care

September 9, 2014

(Medscape) – Physicians have more positive perceptions about end-of-life care than nurses, according to a survey conducted among healthcare professionals at hospitals and cancer clinics in Germany and published online September 8 in Cancer. “We found that 72% of physicians believe it is usually possible for patients to die a dignified death on their ward, but only 52% of nurses shared this opinion,” commented lead author Karin Jors, MA, from the University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany.