Care for the terminally ill and their families, especially that provided by an organized health service.
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- The management of pain from gastric carcinoma follows established palliative care practice.
- She willingly lectures at conferences on palliative care, oncology nursing, and pain management.
- The local standard of care for HIV and AIDS includes only palliative care.
- It demonstrates that the use of blood transfusion in palliative care requires further discussion.
- Such prescriptions may affect two thirds of inpatients in specialist palliative care units.
- Not all hospitals and healthcare facilities offer palliative care services.
- A form detailing palliative care management should be completed by the patient's general practitioner.
- In effect he found that feeding via intravenous drip constitutes medical treatment, not palliative care.
- Such considerations did not seem to apply to events of overt polymedication or of palliative care.
- Most palliative care units try to involve family members and friends who are important and close to the person dying.