Identifying needs and improving palliative care of chronically ill patients
- 1 September 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Current Opinion in Supportive & Palliative Care
- Vol. 6 (3), 371-378
- https://doi.org/10.1097/spc.0b013e328356aaed
Abstract
The challenges are to promote early and shared interventions, extended to all patients in need, in all settings of the social care and healthcare systems; to design and develop Palliative Care Programmes with a Public Health perspective. The first action is to identify, using the appropriate tools early in the clinical evolution of the disease, all patients in need of palliative care in all settings of care, especially in primary care services, nursing homes, and healthcare services responsible for care provision for these patients; to promote appropriate care in patients with advanced diseases with prognosis of poor survivalKeywords
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