… for patients with advanced lung disease. This article addresses palliative care in a narrower
… of symptoms after a chronic, nonmalignant lung disease advances to the stage at which …

… their physician, the feeling that their physician was good at caring for their lung disease
and that he/she viewed them as person rather than focusing purely on their lung condition. …

… the care of patients diagnosed with end-stage lung disease. Extensive research exists on
patients with obstructive lung disease [ie, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)] with …

… However, less than 19% of patients with chronic lung disease and enrolled in a rehabilitation
program had previous EOL discussions with their physician. Most patients with ESLD …

… palliative care is also an underused facility in treating patients with end stage lung disease.3
… Factors affecting physicians' decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatments in terminal care. J …

… end-of-life care is critically important in … care for patients with chronic lung disease who
died in the ICU, we compared elements of palliative care received by patients with ILD or COPD …

… lung disease understand less about their illness, have fewer choices regarding end-of-life
care and more limited access to supportive and palliative care than patients with cancer …

… disease have less universal access to specialist palliative care services than do those with
malignant lung disease… end of life care issues with patients with chronic lung disease. Chronic …

… lung disease are comparable to those with lung cancer. This article will focus on chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease and … and non-malignant lung diseases. …

… Reasons for low utilization of hospice services by lung disease patients have not been …
, the topic of palliative and terminal care for patients with advanced lung disease was rarely …