Background: Palliative care offers an approach to the care of people with serious illness that
focuses on quality of life and aligning care with individual and family goals, and values in the …

Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people
with serious illness and their families. This interdisciplinary care is provided by doctors …

Chronic illnesses are now the most common causes of death in the United States (1). For
many patients, medical care can slow the course of the illness and improve quality of life, but …

Excellent palliative care is available for patients with advanced lung cancer. Whether the
same services are available for those with nonmalignant respiratory disease is less clear. A …

The goal of palliative care is to prevent suffering and manage symptoms, maintain quality of
life, and provide physical, emotional, and spiritual support for patients and their loved ones …

The ability to provide primary palliative care is a skill set that nurse practitioners should
acquire, develop, and refine. The relief of suffering—physical, emotional, and spiritual …

Background: There is a known shortage of trained palliative care professionals, and an even
greater shortage of professionals who have been trained through interprofessional curricula …

Editor's note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care,
health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on …

Objective Increasing numbers of Canadians living with complex, life-limiting conditions
demand high-quality palliative care. Timely access to palliative care can help to reduce …

Supportive and palliative care is an interdisciplinary challenge with the aims of symptom
relief and improvement of quality of life in end-stage patients. Main complaints of patients …