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Defining Palliative Care
- Palliative care aims to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for patients with advanced illness and their families.
- Palliative care is provided by an interdisciplinary team and offered in conjunction with all other appropriate forms of medical treatment.
- Palliative care programs structure a variety of hospital resources to effectively deliver the highest quality of care to patients with advanced illness.
- The resources and team include: medical and nursing specialists, social workers, clergy, and others.
- Vigorous pain and symptom control is integrated into all stages of treatment.
- The palliative care approach decreases length of hospital and ICU stays and eases patient transitions between care settings. This results in increased patient and family satisfaction and compliance with hospital care quality standards.
- Successful palliative care programs have used an array of delivery systems from consultative services to inpatient units.
- This chart demonstrates how palliative care is different from geriatrics, hospice care, case management and pain management.
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