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End-of-Life Care/Pain Management/Palliative

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Palliative care is specialized medical care for individuals living with serious and often terminal illness. It employs an interdisciplinary approach to provide relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Symptoms, such as shortness of breath, constipation, nausea, and pain in addition to other symptoms, are closely managed to help relieve suffering and discomfort. Hospice care is a type of palliative care, but not all palliative care is hospice care. There are four levels of hospice care. General physicians should be equipped to deliver basic palliative care and initiate advance care planning.

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  1. Hospital Medicine Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, Box #438, New York, NY, 10065, USA

    Tabitha N. Goring MD

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  1. Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA

    Elana Sydney

  2. Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA

    Eleanor Weinstein

  3. Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA

    Lisa M. Rucker

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Goring, T.N. (2018). End-of-Life Care/Pain Management/Palliative. In: Sydney, E., Weinstein, E., Rucker, L. (eds) Handbook of Outpatient Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68379-9_4

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