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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 7vR0x0Ra. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Context Prior reviews of small numbers of medical textbooks suggest that end-of-life care is not well covered in textbooks. No broad study of end-of-life care content analysis has been performed on textbooks across a wide range of medical, pediatric, psychiatric, and surgical specialties. Objective To determine the quantity and rate the adequacy of information on end-of-life care in textbooks from multiple medical disciplines. Design and Sources A 1998 review of 50 top-selling textbooks from multiple specialties (cardiology, emergency medicine, family and primary care medicine, geriatrics, infectious disease and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS], internal medicine, neurology, oncology and hematology, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, and surgery) for the presence and adequacy of content in 13 end-of-life care domains. Main Outcome Measures Chapters on diseases commonly causing death and those devoted to end-of-life care were identified, read, rated, and compared by textbook specialty, chapter, and domain for the presence of helpful information in the 13 domains. Content for each domain was rated as absent, minimally present, or helpful. Textbook indexes were analyzed for the number of pages relevant to end-of-life care. Results Overall, helpful information was provided in 24.1% (range, 8.7% 44.2%) of the expected end-of-life content domains ; in 19.1% (range, 6.2% - 38.5%), expected content received minimal attention ; and in 56.9% (range, 23. (...)
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