Open AccessEarly Specialty Palliative Care — Translating Data in Oncology into Practice
Author(s) -
Ravi B. Parikh,
Rebecca Kirch,
Thomas J. Smith,
Jennifer S. Temel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmsb1305469
Subject(s) - palliative care , specialty , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , health care , nursing , intensive care medicine , family medicine , economics , economic growth
For most patients with serious illness, palliative care is provided only near the end of life. The authors review studies showing that earlier palliative care can improve quality of life and reduce health care costs and argue that such care should be standard in serious illness.
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