ABSTRACT Take-Away Points: 1. Geriatric palliative care requires integrating the disciplines
of hospital medicine and palliative care in pursuit of delivering comprehensive, whole …

Background: Internal medicine residents are largely unprepared to carry out end-of-life
(EOL) conversations. There is evidence that these skills can be taught, but data from …

Palliative care in Malaysia has progressed steadily since its inception in 1991, and it has
been integrated gradually into primary health care in the past decade. This study aims to …

Over the last 4 decades, palliative care in India had steady growth and development from
the early hospice movement in the 1980s to specialist and subspecialist palliative medicine …

Materials and Methods: The present paper explored the facilitators and challenges in
providing home-based palliative care as perceived by the primary care/family physicians …

Background: Palliative care demands in the United States are growing amid a comparatively
small workforce of palliative care clinicians and researchers. Therefore, determining …

Low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) are experiencing a surge in non-communicable
diseases, with a resultant increase in the demand for palliative care. However, there is a …

Cancer care poses a significant economic burden in India, where noncommunicable
diseases contribute to a large number of deaths and disability-adjusted life-years. Despite …

WHO 从2014 年开始相继发布缓和医疗相关实施指南, 为缓和医疗的实施提供了重要证据.
在医疗资源紧张, 缓和医疗需求增多, 专科缓和医疗人力资源缺乏的背景下, 以社区为中心的缓和 …

Background Palliative Care (PC) is a neglected yet core component of health care in the
public sector. It embodies holistic, people-centred, compassionate care, focussing on …