scholarly journals Factors Influencing Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Tertiary General Hospital Workers -Knowledge and Attitude of Organ Donation and Transplantation, Awareness of Death, Knowledge and Perception of Hospice Palliative Care-

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nam Joo Je ◽  
Jeong Seok Hwa
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Hospital Workers ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Hospice Palliative Care

Palliative care in South Korea

2015 ◽  
pp. 1136-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Sook Kim ◽  
Boon Han Kim
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
The West ◽  
Korean Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Hospice Palliative Care

Most Koreans would prefer to withdraw from medically futile life-sustaining treatment, but many Koreans still receive futile treatment even after their conditions are diagnosed as terminal. Korean law does not allow doctors to remove life-sustaining treatment, regardless of the patient‘s condition or desires or those of family members. The limited hospice palliative care that is offered often demands a high degree of family responsibility; the caregivers of terminal patients are usually immediate family members or private caregivers hired by the family. For these reasons, Korean family members of terminally ill patients experience heavy physical, emotional, and social stresses, much more so than families in the West.

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