Full article: Strengthening of Palliative Care as a Component of Integrated Treatment
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Abstract Context The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care developed a
consensus-based definition of palliative care (PC) that focuses on the relief of serious health …

Palliative medicine is a young specialty that is officially recognized in relatively few
countries. The W orld H ealth O rganization published an adapted definition in 2002 …

162 Abdulaziz Al-Mahrezi, et al. be introduced in several different settings: as a standalone
service in a center or hospice, hospital-based, community-based, and home care. 13 In …

The quality of life of at least 100 million people would have improved—if today's knowledge
of palliative care was accessible to everyone. A Public Health Strategy (PHS) offers the best …

The number of people in their last years of life with advanced chronic conditions, palliative
care needs, and limited life prognosis due to different causes including multi-morbidity …

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), palliative care is concerned with the
physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems of patients with life-threatening illnesses and …

Context Palliative care continues to be a rapidly growing field aimed at improving quality of
life for patients and their caregivers. Objectives The purpose of this review was to provide a …

Palliative care has proven to be an important component during the care of seriously ill
oncology patients. In the past decade, early integration of both specialties demonstrated …

Opinion statement Palliative care has evolved over the decades from its roots in the hospice
movement to a much wider approach in which early intervention further “upstream” in the …