… Studies suggesting that advanced COPD patients have palliative care needs have been …
the palliative care of patients with advanced COPD.6–9 Despite growing interest, palliative care …

… This has been described as the active total care of patients whose disease is incurable …
Palliative care is not synonymous with terminal care and it should be apparent that the palliative …

… minority received a formal palliative care referral. Referral to palliative care occurred late in
… end-of-life management in IPF and promote earlier discussion and referral to palliative care. …

… Since palliative care in COPD is not a common practice, we recommend that pulmonologists
improve their skills of palliative care and the members of the SPCT be better informed about …

… , and antidepressant treatment, and advance care planning. Hence, it is necessary to
pursue a holistic care approach for palliative care services along with disease-specific medical …

… and palliative care instead showed distinguishing features of patients with advanced
incurable lung cancer as compared with patients without lung cancer or other pulmonary tumor …

… Identifying patients in need for palliative care thus remains a challenge.70 The initiation
of palliative care, therefore, should be based on complexity of symptoms and unmet needs …

… attitudes and comfort of physicians regarding palliative care (PC) for patients … to Pulmonary
Hypertension Clinicians and Researchers, a professional organization within the Pulmonary …

… de畁es palliative care as `the active total care of patients … of palliative care is achievement
of the best quality of life for patients and their families'.This section will describe palliative care …

… in a patient with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [5] to end his
or her life in dignity after having received every type of curative and palliative care available. …