Palliative Care 1
Palliative Care 1 :
Aggressive management of symptoms and relief of suffering is what generally have come to be called palliative care. The World Health Organization defines palliative care as an approach which improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing life-threatening illness, through the prevention, assessment, and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems. (AHRQ, Mass Medical Care, 2007, 104)
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