Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of...
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palliate is to cloak, or cover up, the symptoms of an illness without curing it. Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers...
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Oncology (section Palliative care)
other modalities) Follow-up of cancer patients after successful treatment Palliative care of patients with terminal malignancies Ethical questions surrounding...
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Hospice (section World Hospice and Palliative Care Day)
meant to diagnose or cure an illness but also do not include treatments that hasten death. Instead, hospices focus on palliative care to relieve pain...
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Terminal illness (category Palliative care)
management after diagnosis. Examples include caregiving, continued treatment, palliative and hospice care, and physician-assisted suicide. Decisions regarding...
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Lymphoma (section Palliative care)
availability of pediatric palliative care lead to improved palliative care outcomes in children with cancer?". Journal of Palliative Medicine. 16 (9): 1034–1039...
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management, an intervention that is intended to relieve rather than cure Palliative care, used to manage the process of death Watchful waiting used to...
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Shortness of breath (section Palliative medicine)
opioids are also used to prevent/continue treatment of dyspnea in palliative setting. There is a lack of evidence to recommend midazolam, nebulised...
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Pancreatic cancer (section Palliative care)
chemotherapy, palliative care, or a combination of these. Treatment options are partly based on the cancer stage. Surgery is the only treatment that can cure pancreatic...
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the following: Palliative care is supportive care, most especially (but not necessarily) near the end of life. Hospice care is palliative care very near...
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Liars. Parker supports various charities such as the National Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Glenn Siegel's My Good Friend charity organization...
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exercise, proper eating habits and other life style issues, and from palliative care, which concentrates on reducing the severity of symptoms, such as...
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pace (with Alessandro Cecchi Paone, 2011) Il diritto di non soffrire. Cure palliative, testamento biologico, eutanasia (2011) Verso la scelta vegetariana...
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Hospice care in the United States (category Palliative care in the United States)
work of palliative care physician BJ Miller and other palliative care clinicians. The film was executive produced by hospice and palliative care activist...
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William Faulkner. In most cases, thanatology is not specifically related to palliative care and end-of-life care, which aim to provide treatment for dying individuals...
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Parkinson's disease (section Palliative care)
life and are therefore palliative. Palliative care should be involved earlier, rather than later, in the disease course. Palliative care specialists can...
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Cancer (section Palliative care)
targeted therapy. Pain and symptom management are an important part of care. Palliative care is particularly important in people with advanced disease. The chance...
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Interventionism (medicine) (category Palliative care)
providers and patients from taking full advantage of palliative care options. The primary focus for palliative care is improving the patient's immediate, daily...
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Colorectal cancer (section Palliative care)
colorectal cancer, palliative care can consist of procedures that relieve symptoms or complications from the cancer but do not attempt to cure the underlying...
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'If a person can't be cured it doesn't mean he can't be helped'. In 2006, Russian Law on Health Protection didn't cover palliative care. She also co-founded...
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cancer was terminal, she opted to sign hospital forms requesting only palliative care. When first diagnosed with her illnesses, Castellano bonded with...
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Retrieved 2015-07-24. Hansford P (April 2010), "Palliative Care in the United Kingdom", Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing, Oxford University Press, pp. 1265–1274...
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Futile medical care (category Palliative care)
medical care or treatment to a patient when there is no reasonable hope of a cure or benefit. Some proponents of evidence-based medicine suggest discontinuing...
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Additionally, research is being conducted on the impact of existential QoL on palliative care patients as terminal illness awareness and symptom burden may be...
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Quackery (redirect from Quack cure)
ineffective or even dangerous. Despair may be exacerbated by the lack of palliative non-curative end-of-life care. Between 2012 and 2018 appeals on UK crowdfunding...
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therapy, targeted therapy, and bone marrow transplant, with supportive and palliative care provided as needed. Certain types of leukemia may be managed with...
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treatment is to either cure the cancer by its complete removal, or to considerably prolong the life of the individual. Palliative care is involved when...
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diagnosis with a life expectancy of 35–45 years; treatments are surgery and palliative care, although some chemotherapy has been tried with limited success....
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Multiple myeloma (section Palliative care)
early palliative care for people with advanced multiple myeloma at the time of diagnosis and for anyone who has significant symptoms. Palliative care is...
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contact Hohenlohe. Laudanum proved ineffective and her doctors advised palliative care. Stephen Dubuisson, of St. Patrick's Catholic Church wrote to Hohenlohe...
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