49. WHO Definition of 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 and impeccable
assessment and treatment of pain and other
problems, physical, psychosocial and
spiritual.
53. Hospice care
• The aim of hospice care is to provide the
best possible quality of life, and to relieve
pain and other symptoms during the final
days of a person’s life, at a time when the
person’
underlying disease can no longer be
treated or cured.
Hospice care is
a philosophy of care
54. EOLC (End-of-Life Care)
生命末期照護
• 生命末期: Kinzbrunner (2002): 醫療介入在正常
生命末期:
情況下,可預期病人將在六個月內死亡,且有二
位以上的專科醫師認定,依我國安寧緩和醫療條
例第三條中明白定義末期病人為罹患嚴重傷病,
經醫師(兩位醫師,其中一位為專科醫師)診斷認
經醫師(兩位醫師,其中一位為專科醫師)
為不可治癒,且有醫學上之證據,近期内病程進
展進行至死亡已不可避免者
• Physicians who would not be surprised if their
patients died within the next year should initiate
discussions about prognosis and advance
directives
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