What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is the healthcare subspecialty that focuses on managing the symptom burden of those with serious illness, regardless of diagnosis or prognosis. Palliative care is also a philosophy of care whose goal is to help those with serious illness and their caregivers achieve the best possible quality of life.
Palliative care teams provide an extra layer of support, collaborating with primary care providers and other specialists such as oncologists, cardiologists, and pulmonologists as well as other disciplines involved with the person麻豆传媒檚 care such as nursing and therapy.
The following areas are the focus of the interdisciplinary palliative care team:
- Pain Management
- Symptom Management
- Psychosocial Support
- Spiritual Support
- Advance Care Planning
Additional Resources
Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine; Center to Advance Palliative Care; Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association; Last Acts Partnership; National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. 麻豆传媒淣ational Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care: Clinical Practice Guidelines for quality palliative care, executive summary,麻豆传媒 Journal of Palliative Medicine 7 no. 5 (2011): 611-27.
Helpful Web Sites
- National Consensus Project
- Institute of Medicine
References
- Meier, D. 麻豆传媒溌槎勾綕 Millbank Quarterly 89 no. 3 (2011): 343-380. Retrieved from /
- Strand, J. J., Kamdar, M.M., and Carey, E. C. 麻豆传媒溌槎勾綕