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Medical futility and psychiatry: Palliative care and hospice care as a last resort in the treatment of refractory anorexia nervosa
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 05/20/09
Lopez A et al. - Although circumstances requiring its use are rare, palliative care may play a role in the treatment of long suffering, treatment refractory patients. For poor prognosis patients who are unresponsive to competent treatment, continue to decline physiologically and psychologically, and appear to face an inexorably terminal course, palliative care and hospice may be a humane alternative.
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