Reference: World Health Organisation definition of palliative care (sourced 27 June 2005). Available at http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en
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| Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Reference: World Health Organisation definition of palliative care (sourced 27 June 2005). Available at http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en |