Journal article
Pally-what?
Nursing (Jenkintown, Pa.), Vol.41(10), pp.16-17
10/01/2011
DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000405112.85897.00
PMID: 21918406
Abstract
Buck discusses some issues about palliative care. Palliative care suffers from an identity crisis. Some clinicians use the word palliative as a synonym for hospice. Others use the word to define a distinct type of care, different from aggressive care or hospice care. At its simplest, palliative care is a patient- and family-centered type of care for people with life-limiting illnesses for whom quality of life is the major focus. Unlike hospice, palliative care is need-driven, not life expectancy-driven. Any patient with a serious, life-threatening or debilitating illness can access palliative care.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pally-what?
- Creators
- Harleah Buck
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nursing (Jenkintown, Pa.), Vol.41(10), pp.16-17
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
- DOI
- 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000405112.85897.00
- PMID
- 21918406
- ISSN
- 0360-4039
- eISSN
- 1538-8689
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370651602771
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