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Can we do better in end‐of‐life care? The mixed management model and palliative care
Author(s) -
Glare Paul A,
Virik Kiran
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143711.x
Subject(s) - palliative care , end of life care , medicine , intensive care medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , duration (music) , chronic disease , nursing , paleontology , biology , art , literature
The increasing duration of life from disease diagnosis to death in cancer and chronic non‐malignant illnesses argues for a revised approach to end‐of‐life care that incorporates the principles of palliative care from an earlier stage (ie, a stage at which curative and/or life‐prolonging treatments are still being provided). The provision of active treatment and comfort measures/death preparation in parallel has been called the “mixed management model” of end‐of life care.