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Timothy P. Daaleman, DO; Larry VandeCreek, DMin

JAMA. 2000;284:2514-2517.

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In 1995, the SUPPORT (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment) trial stimulated a reexamination of systems of care for seriously ill and dying patients.¹ This study has accelerated efforts to improve end-of-life care and has indirectly promoted a rapprochement among religion, spirituality, medicine, and health care.² The goal of a quality comfortable death is achieved by meeting a patient's physical needs and by attending to the social, psychological, and the now recognized spiritual and religious dimensions of care.^3-4 This perspective is highlighted in a recent consensus statement that includes the assessment and support of spiritual and religious well-being and management of spiritual and religious problems as core principles of professional practice and care at the end of life.⁵ Yet multiple ethical and pragmatic issues arise. For example, should physicians identify patients' spiritual and religious needs and intervene . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Religion: The Provision of Belief and the Establishment of an Ethic

Author Affiliations: Departments of Family Medicine and History & Philosophy of Medicine, Center on Aging, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City (Dr Daaleman); and The Healthcare Chaplaincy, New York, NY (Dr VandeCreek).

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