Palliative care: an evolving field in medicine.
review · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.pop.2011.03.001.
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Abstract
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems: physical, psychosocial, and spiritual. This article discusses illness trajectories and prognostic estimates, prognostic tools, educating physicians and nurses in palliative care, research in palliative medicine, and palliative care in hospitals and the community.
Medical subject headings
- Palliative Care
- Physicians, Primary Care
- Quality of Life