Open AccessExperience in strategic networking to promote palliative care in a clinical academic setting in India
Author(s) -
Sreeja C. Nair,
SD Tarey,
B Barathi,
Thiophin Regina Mary,
Lizzy Mathew,
Sudha Pauline Daniel
Publication year - 2016
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 - 10.4103/0973-1075.173953
Subject(s) - palliative care , specialty , medicine , service (business) , institution , nursing , health care , family medicine , academic institution , medical education , business , political science , management , marketing , economics , law
Palliative care in low and middle-income countries is a new discipline, responding to a greater patient need, than in high-income countries. By its very nature, palliative as a specialty has to network with other specialties to provide quality care to patients. For any medical discipline to grow as a specialty, it should be well established in the teaching medical institutions of that country. Data show that palliative care is more likely to establish and grow in an academic health care institution. It is a necessity that multiple networking strategies are adopted to reach this goal.