Palliative care

Última revisión: 12 Oct 2025
Última actualización: 23 Oct 2025

Resumen

Datos

  • Outpatient palliative care services
  • Hospice-care services
  • Need for palliative care
  • Role of prognostication
  • Goals of care
  • Comprehensive palliative care assessment
  • Illness trajectories
  • Overview of common symptoms experienced by patients in the palliative care setting
  • Overview of treatment of the seriously ill patient
  • Pain management
  • Dyspnea
  • Constipation
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Delirium
  • Nausea
  • Tools to document advance-care planning
  • Palliative sedation and medical aid in dying
  • Guidelines
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Colaboradores

Autores

Jeanie Youngwerth, MD
Jeanie Youngwerth

Associate Professor of Medicine

Program Director

University of Colorado Hospital Palliative Care Service

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Aurora

CO

Divulgaciones

JY is a paid advisory board member for an R01 palliative care telemedicine patient/family experience grant proposal for the RAND Corporation; no contractual agreement. JY is a nonpaid vice-chair for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Adult Cancer Pain guidelines; no contractual agreement. JY received payment for faculty and presenting the NCCN Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)-Compliant Pain Management Webinar Series; no contractual agreement. JY is an author of two references cited in this topic.

Oliver Minton, PhD, FRCP

Macmillan Consultant

Brighton and Sussex University Hospital

Brighton

UK

Divulgaciones

OM is lead co-applicant on a National Institute for Health and Care Research patient benefit looking at virtual reality. OM is Integrated Care Record lead for palliative care. OM is an associate editor for the BMJ Oncology. OM is part time advisor to Macmillan Cancer as their national end of life care clinician.

Revisores por pares

Diane E. Meier, MD

Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics

Professor

Departments of Geriatrics and Medicine

Director

Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute

Director

Center to Advance Palliative Care

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York

NY

Divulgaciones

DEM has received NIH-NCI ROI funding greater than 6 figures USD. DEM declares that she has no competing interests.

Cari Levy, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Denver

CO

Declarações

CL declares that she has no competing interests.

Cordt Kassner, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Colorado Center for Hospice & Palliative Care

Colorado Springs

CO

Declarações

CK declares that he has no competing interests.

Irene J. Higginson, BM, BS, BMedSci, PhD, FFPHM, FRCP

Professor

Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation

King's College London/King's Healthcare Partners

London

UK

Declarações

IJH declares that she has no competing interests.

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Principais artigos

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: adult cancer pain [internet publication].Texto completo

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: palliative care [internet publication].Texto completo

Sanders JJ, Temin S, Ghoshal A, et al. Palliative care for patients with cancer: ASCO guideline update. J Clin Oncol. 2024 Jul 1;42(19):2336-57.Texto completo  Resumo

Andersen BL, Lacchetti C, Ashing K, et al. Management of anxiety and depression in adult survivors of cancer: ASCO guideline update. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Jun 20;41(18):3426-53.Texto completo  Resumo

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