[Teminal care in a nursing home].

This article focuses on patients with limited life expectancy who no longer benefit from preventive medication but not yet qualify for palliative care - a time frame often referred to as End-of-Life (EOL). The purpose of this article is to identify and assess international guidelines for prescribing in EOL. No relevant clinical trials were available, but we found advice mainly based on logic assumptions and thoughts. Optimal prescribing for EOL patients remains mostly unexplored. Our study revealed two pivotal questions: How do we identify EOL patients, and what specific drugs should be removed?