Palliative care focuses on relieving symptoms, providing comfort, and improving quality of life for people with serious or ongoing illnesses. You don't have to be terminally ill to get it, and you can get treatment for your condition at the same time. If you or a loved one is living with...
Palliative care: What, when, and how?Twycross, Robert
you can receive palliative care at any stage in your disease and continue to get treatments to cure it. Palliative medicine is a whole-person care that gives you an extra layer of support so you and your
Many patients with advanced, non-curable cancer experience disease progression to a stage requiring symptomatic care alone. The integration of palliative care into oncology practice is therefore important, with many studies showing the benefits of early introduction of palliative care. In addition to sym...
Palliative care is a speciality which has grown considerably in recent years gaining recognition as its own subspecialty of medicine by the Royal College of Physicians in 1987. GPs have always had a role in providing palliative care, and as our ageing population increases, the number of people ...
This is the heart-warming moment when ambulance workers took a palliative(保守疗法) care patient to the beach, while still in her hospital bed, to fulfill her dying wish. The Queensland Ambulance Service posted a photo of a paramedic(急救中心的工作人员) called Graeme standing beside a woman...
It’s important to understand that hospice is not a place, but rather a philosophy that focuses on the well-being of the whole person. It is a journey of care for a patient. When a prognosis of a life-limiting illness is six months or less, it is time to consider hospice...
“Palliative care can help,” Bekelman added in a university news release. “However, access to outpatient palliative care specialists is limited to non-existent, and new, scalable ways to provide early palliative care are needed.” For this study, Bekelman and his colleagues provided telephone-...
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项When Freddie arrived to perform in the hospitalroom, Pam worried it was already too late. Her 88-year-old stepfather,Strobel, had 41 been moved to the palliative care(姑息治疗) unit. Pamcould 42 that someth...
Capturing Fiscal Benefits When Palliative Care Is Engaged Early in a Hospitalization (316-C) 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 7 作者:K Kerr,JB Cassel,T Smith,S Pantilat 摘要: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2011 Jan;41(1):198-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.10.059. Epub 2011 Jan 8...