Background: Palliative care is a medical specialty and philosophy of care that focuses on
reducing suffering among patients with serious illness and their family members, regardless …

Background: Patients with serious respiratory illness and their caregivers suffer
considerable burdens, and palliative care is a fundamental right for anyone who needs it …

That palliative care improves quality of life for seriously ill patients and their families is well
known–but how can healthcare providers ensure that the palliative needs of all patients are …

Palliative care is appropriate for patients at any point in a serious illness. Unlike hospice,
palliative care is not limited by prognosis and may be provided at the same time as disease …

Palliative care aims to prevent and relieve suffering by controlling symptoms and to provide
other support to patients and families in order to maintain and improve their quality of living …

With newer information indicating more favorable outcomes of intensive care therapy for
lung cancer patients, intensivists increasingly are willing to initiate an aggressive trial of this …

The tendency toward “either/or” thinking (either cure or comfort) in traditional biomedical
care paradigms does little to optimize care in advancing chronic illness. Calls for improved …

Abstract Background The Advanced Lung Disease Service is a unique, new model of
integrated respiratory and palliative care, which aims to address the unmet needs of patients …

Based on the demonstrated effectiveness of palliative care in the alleviation of symptoms
and enhancement of life quality, it is important to incorporate palliative care early in the …

The benefits of specialist palliative care (PC) among those with serious illness are well
established (1, 2). Unfortunately, there is a critical supply–demand mismatch between 1) the …