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Palliative care

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 33 KB
Volume: 1
Category: Article
ISSN: 1553-5592
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.54

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✦ Synopsis

Palliative care refers to a collaborative, comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to improve the quality of life of patients living with debilitating, chronic or terminal illness. Palliative care is appropriate at any stage of illness and should be provided simultaneously with all other medical treatments. This approach includes the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, assessment, and treatment of pain and other distressing symptoms such as dyspnea, nausea, fatigue, anxiety and depression; and attention to the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and their families.

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