Arango-Gutiérrez, Angélica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-6847
Moreno, Socorro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4119-4409
Rondón, Martín https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3885-5448
Arroyo, Lucía I https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1261-6297
Ardila, Liliana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3686-7269
Leal Arenas, Fabián Alexander https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0284-2423
Calvache, José A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-3717
de Vries, Esther https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-2258
Article History
Received: 9 June 2022
Accepted: 16 March 2023
First Online: 21 April 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study corresponds to a cross-sectional study of secondary sources, which took information without identification data of the caregiver, or patient of the study “Medical decisions at the end of life in cancer patients in Colombia” []. According to article 11 of resolution 8430 of 1993 of the Colombian legal framework, this study corresponds to a study without risk [].The ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) and Hospital Universitario San Ignacio (HUSI) approved the research protocol of the present study on 28 January 2021 (FM-CIE-0006-21).The verbal informed consent was obtained from all the caregivers of the patients who died of cancer to participate. All methods were carried out in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki, the ethical guidelines for research biomedical studies prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), and national guidelines [,].Ethical conflicts during development were handled and discussed with the researchers, and the well-being of the participants was ensured.
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