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Palliative Care for Hospitalists

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Palliative care is a medical specialty that provides medical care to individuals living with serious illness. Palliative care has evolved over the past several decades from exclusively providing end-of-life care to serving patients with life-limiting medical conditions by providing supportive, comprehensive care. Palliative care services can and should be sought at all stages of severe illness and are typically provided alongside medically curative treatment. Hospice care, often referred to as end-of-life care, aims at providing comfort for patients with a prognosis of fewer than 6 months to live or patients whose health is demonstrably declining. The rapid, global spread of the COVID-19 virus led to an international pandemic that has caused a rapid rise in the utilization of healthcare services and a surge in demand for palliative care.

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Nelson, S., Koduri, M. (2022). Palliative Care for Hospitalists. In: Conrad, K. (eds) Clinical Approaches to Hospital Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95164-1_13

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