Palliative care
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 367325 |
Registration status: | Health, Recorded 13/05/2008 |
Definition: | Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-limiting 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. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Palliative Care Intergovernmental Forum |
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Origin: | World Health Organization |
Reference documents: | WHO 2002. National cancer control programmes: policies and managerial guidelines. 2nd edition. geneva: WHO. |
Relational attributes | |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Episode of community based palliative care Health, Recorded 13/05/2008 |
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