 | Kathleen Masters - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...official associations and organizations. The World Health Organization (2003) has defined palliative care as 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... | |
 | Daniel D. Von Hoff, Douglas Brian Evans, Ralph H. Hruban - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 866
...The World Health Organization1 has put forth a definition of palliative medicine: "Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with lifethreatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by... | |
 | Marc E. Agronin, Gabe J. Maletta - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...Medicare criteria for hospice benefit eligibility. The World Health Organization defines palliative care as: An approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing life-threatening illness, through prevention, assessment, and treatment of pain and other physical,... | |
 | Janet Susan Hickman - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...Health Organization's Definitions of Palliative Care PALLIATIVE CARE FOR ADULTS Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families who are facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness. This approach is achieved through... | |
 | Jo Cooper - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...and decide whether you would approach this patient differently. Introduction Palliative care has been defined by the World Health Organization as: an approach...of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by... | |
 | National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions (Great Britain) - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 243
...care is achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families.394 Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients...problems associated with life-threatening illness. It does not necessarily mean the use of specialist care services but should focus on prevention and... | |
 | Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade - 2010 - عدد الصفحات: 235
...context as possible. 3.1.3 Palliative Care and Treatment of Pain Palliative care medicine is defined as "an approach that improves the quality of life...and their families facing the problems associated QUALITY OF LIFE 127 with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by... | |
 | G. De Corte - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 132
...werd dan overgenomen door de WHO die haar definitie recent als volgt aanpaste: '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... | |
 | Dr. Marilyn Krajicek, PhD, RN, FAAN - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...and his team were doing at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal in the 1970s. 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... | |
 | Herrmann Delbrück - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...also hope of a cure by other means; thus, a more recent WHO statement (WHO 2006) calls palliative care "an approach that improves the quality of life of...problems associated with life-threatening illness." In some cases, palliative treatments may be used to alleviate the side effects of curative treatments,... | |
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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... 
