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Palliative care

Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical care-giving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Many definitions of palliative care exist.

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Activity sectors
Medicine
Education required
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) · Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) · Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (e.g., MBBS or MBChB) · UK: Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (4 years full-time)
Fields of employment
Hospitals, clinics
Occupation type
Specialty

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Palliative care

Nodes130
Edges129
Triples158
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015385
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Palliative care

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related to history · 26
Palliative care → Balfour Mount, Christopher's Hospice, Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, Dame Cicely Saunders, Declan Walsh, Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, European Society, Horvitz Center, In, Integrated Center, Medical Oncology, Ohio, On Death, Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Paul Henteleff, Saint Boniface Hospital, St, The
related to In media · 20
Palliative care → Benedict Cumberbatch, BJ Miller, David, David Bowie, David Bowie's, Duncan Jones, End Game, In, Jarvis Cocker, Jeffrey Friedman, Netflix, Palliative, Professor Mark Taubert, Rob Epstein, San Francisco, Shoshana, Steven Ungerleider, The, Ulich, Ungerleider
related to Palliative care versus hospice care · 17
Palliative care → An, Caregivers, Hospice, Hospice's, In, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Hospice Benefit, Most, Of, Outside, Over, The, These, This, Under, United States
related to Research · 13
Palliative care → Care Research, Examples, Gypsy, Health, NIHR, Other, Research, Roma, These, They, Traveller, UK, UK's National Institute
related to Regional variation in services · 8
Palliative care → Hospices, In, National Health Service, Palliative, UK, UK's, United States, US
related to Certification and training for services · 7
Palliative care → Entry, In, Internal Medicine, Palliative, Palliative Medicine, There, United Kingdom
related to Practice of palliative care · 6
Palliative care → Examples, However, Medications, Other, Palliative, Routes
related to Scope · 6
Palliative care → Forty, Historically, However, Palliative, Physical, The
related to Acceptance and access · 5
Palliative care → In, More, Physicians, The, United States
Education required · 4
Palliative care → Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (e.g., MBBS or MBChB), Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.), UK: Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (4 years full-time)

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Palliative careActivity sectorsMedicine1.00infobox
Palliative careEducation requiredDoctor of Medicine (M.D.)1.00infobox
Palliative careEducation requiredDoctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)1.00infobox
Palliative careEducation requiredBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (e.g., MBBS or MBChB)1.00infobox
Palliative careEducation requiredUK: Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (4 years full-time)1.00infobox
Palliative careFields of employmentHospitals, clinics1.00infobox
Palliative careOccupation typeSpecialty1.00infobox
Palliative careis aEdmonton Symptom Assessment Scale0.90text
a chaplaininstance ofas well as spiritual support0.80text
can play important roles in helping peopleinstance ofas well as spiritual support0.80text
their families cope using various methods such as counselinginstance ofas well as spiritual support0.80text
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