What is Palliative Care?
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, impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems physical, psychological and spiritual."
The aim of palliative care is to achieve the best quality of life possible for patients and their families whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.
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