Abstract The World Health Organization supports early delivery of palliative care as it
reduces unnecessary hospital admissions and the inappropriate use of health care services …

To palliate means to alleviate. Palliative care, as the World health organization defines it, is
the “active total care of a patient whose disease is not responding to curative therapy.” The …

Background For patients accessing specialist palliative care day services, medication is
prescribed routinely to manage acute symptoms, treat long-term conditions or prevent …

As palliative care (PC) moves upstream in the course of serious illness and the development
of drugs and their indications rapidly expand, PC providers must understand common drug …

Palliative care is primarily directed at providing relief to a terminally-ill person through
symptom and pain management. The goal is not to cure, but to provide comfort and maintain …

Methods: A total of 1135 medication records of children receiving specialist pediatric
palliative care services were audited for 5 years (2010–2014) to evaluate prescribing …

Timely access to medicines within the community is important for palliative patients where
their preferred place of care is the home environment. The objective of this observational …

Rare diseases are often life-limiting conditions, the majority of which require constant
caregiving needs. The realization of a spectrum of palliative care throughout the trajectory of …

Good medicines management is a cornerstone of highquality palliative care. Any prescribing
decision commences a cascade of formal and informal work to enact and link tasks (in the …

New research and clinical experience can result in changes in treatment and drug therapy.
Readers of this book should therefore check the most recent product information on any …