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Dear Editor: As readers of JPM know, the field of palliative care has evolved and expanded
rapidly over the past few decades. Yet still, most patients, families and, indeed, many …

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), palliative care is concerned with the
physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems of patients with life-threatening illnesses and …

Good medical practice requires evidence of effectiveness to address deficits in care, strive
for further improvements, and justly apportion finite resources. Nevertheless, the potential of …

Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for
people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional …

This paper draws upon Australian fieldwork to trace the changing notions of a good death
held by hospice and palliative care practitioners. Palliative care practitioners search for an …

Palliative care is the holistic approach to provide relief to patients suffering from life
threatening diseases and their families throughout the disease. This is mainly through the …

The emergence of the speciality of palliative medicine in the UK has been generally
welcomed and can be seen as a continuation of the attempts to improve the care of dying …

Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field
that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness. Diane E. Meier, MD, one of …