palliative care
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Key facts
- Occupation type
- Specialty
- Activity sectors
- Medicine
- Education required
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (e.g., MBBS or MBChB) UK: Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (4 years full-time)
- Fields of employment
- Hospitals , clinics
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
123,223 papers- How Effective Is Palliative Care in Improving Patient Outcomes?Current treatment options in oncology · 2020
- Spirituality in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2023
- National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care Guidelines, 4th Edition.Journal of palliative medicine · 2018
- Palliative care education in surgery.Annals of palliative medicine · 2022
- Palliative Care and Geriatric Surgery.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2019
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- health care
- Has part
- symptomatic treatment
- Image
- Hospice-1794418 1920.jpg
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- healthcare:speciality=palliative
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Death
- topic's main category
- Category:Palliative care
- Commons category
- Palliative care
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C15292
- studied by
- narrative medicine
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Many definitions of palliative care exist.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes palliative care as:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “palliative care” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.