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—according to the World Health Organization, palliative care is “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem 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… Palliative care is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.”
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Hui, D. (2016). Palliative Care. In: Hui, D., Leung, A., Padwal, R. (eds) Approach to Internal Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11821-5_14
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