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End-of-Life Care

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This chapter addresses end-of-life care, incorporating thinking about both the last few days of life and the last year of life. The focus of the first part of the chapter is on identifying those patients who are approaching the end of their life, and planning their care appropriately. For these patients disease-modifying therapies, emergency treatments, palliative care and supportive care must run in parallel. A framework of care across primary and secondary care is set out including key issues around communication, anticipatory planning, clinical decision-making and ethics. The second part of the chapter focuses on the last few days of life and practical steps in managing this stage.

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  1. Department of Palliative Care, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, UK

    Paul Paes

  2. School of Medical Education, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    Paul Paes

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  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    Stephen J. Bourke

  2. Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    Tim Peel

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Paes, P. (2019). End-of-Life Care. In: Bourke, S., Peel, T. (eds) Integrated Palliative Care of Respiratory Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18944-0_14

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