Palliative medicine: how to standardize palliative medicine
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Review Series – Palliative Medicine
Palliative medicine has traditionally been associated with advanced cancer. Nowadays, patients with a wide range of illnesses are referred for symptom control, end of life care, emotional, social, spiritual distress, support for their family and bereavement support. Care of the dying patient has also been traditionally associated with hospices while nowadays most people die in hospital. An incr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv452