The Palliative Care Partnership
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In patients with a terminal diagnosis or complex co-morbidity, the physician-patient relationship can often become strained. Frequent hospital admissions, unmanageable pain and nausea, ravaging symptoms, and uncontrollable fear or distress are common.
In greater than 90 percent of such cases, a palliative specialist can help the primary care physician get pain and other symptoms under control, and help patients and families manage emotional distress.
The Palliative Care Partnership
According to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, collaboration between physicians and palliative care organizations creates clinical benefits including:
- Reduced symptom burden
- Care concordant with patient-family preferences
- Patient-family professional consensus on the goal of medical care
- Improved patient and family satisfaction
- Reduced costs via shortened length of hospital stays and more appropriate treatment
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--Patient family member