Open AccessStatus of Palliative Care Services in Tamil Nadu – A Descriptive Report
Author(s) -
Sathish Kumar Deenadayalan,
Surendran Veeraiah,
Vidhubala Elangovan,
K. Sathyamurthi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.25259/ijpc_130_2021
Subject(s) - tamil , medicine , referral , family medicine , government (linguistics) , palliative care , license , descriptive statistics , service (business) , nursing , business , marketing , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , political science , law
Advanced cancer patients attending tertiary cancer centres from rural places are referred back to local physicians for symptom management. Due to lack of networking with palliative care centres (PCCs), the referred patients do not receive appropriate palliative care (PC) services. Hence, an attempt was made to map the PCCs in Tamil Nadu to make the referral system efficient.