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 …

Acute and chronic pulmonary and cardiac diseases often have a high mortality rate, and can
be a source of significant suffering. Palliative care, as described by the Institute of …

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

Primary care plays an important role in delivering care to people who are dying. However,
providing palliative care to people dying with conditions other than cancer may be more …

Background: The physical and psychosocial needs of patients with chronic non-malignant
lung disease are comparable to those with lung cancer. This article will focus on chronic …

This paper reports on data from the Regional Study of Care for the Dying, conducted in
1990, and compares symptoms, care and service utilization for patients with chronic lung …

The majority of patients who acquire lung cancer will have troublesome symptoms at some
time during the course of their disease. Some of the symptoms are common to many types of …

Classically, hospice and palliative services have been most available to and
disproportionately used by patients with cancer. No data exist on community outpatient …

Goals/objectives To review the scientific evidence on symptoms and specific complications
that are associated with lung cancer, and the methods available to palliate those symptoms …

Palliative care focuses on relieving suffering and achieving the best possible quality of life
for patients and their family caregivers. It involves the assessment and treatment of …