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\u7d13\u7de9\u6cbb\u7642 (Palliative Care)<\/h3><\/div>
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According to the World Health Organization\u00b9, palliative care is a method of caring for patients with critical illness and their families\/carers, with the aim of improving their quality of life. Palliative care prevents and relieves suffering through early identification, assessment and management of pain and other physical, psychosocial or spiritual problems. Palliative care uses a cross-team approach to support patients until death. It also provides appropriate support to family members during the process and provides grief counseling after the patient’s death.\n

Palliative care is targeted at patients with critical illness, including cancer or other chronic diseases such as renal failure, chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, etc. Designed to provide holistic physical, psychological, social and spiritual care to patients and their families suffering from critical illness. The HA uses an inter-professional team, including doctors, nurses, medical social workers, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, etc., to provide appropriate palliative care services to patients and their families in an integrated service model. The purpose is to Improve their quality of life and help patients spend the last part of their lives more peacefully.\n

Many people in society have misunderstandings about palliative care. They believe that palliative care is equivalent to late stage care or giving up treatment\u00b2, and that it is only suitable for patients who have entered a later stage of the disease or are about to die. In fact, palliative care is also applicable to the early stages of critical illness and can be used in parallel with curative treatment. It aims to relieve symptoms caused by the disease and treatment, such as pain, fatigue, asthma, nausea, depression, etc., and relieve the patient’s symptoms. of physical and mental pain. In the early stages of illness, palliative care can effectively improve patients’ quality of life and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions\u00b3. When a patient is near death, palliative care services also include late-life care. Therefore, palliative care is an indispensable part of the entire medical care process.\n

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\u5b89\u5be7\u7167\u9867 (End-of-Life Care)<\/h3><\/div>
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When a patient is diagnosed with an incurable disease and is likely to die within the next 6 to 12 months. Palliative care generally refers to providing palliative care to such patients until the end of life (palliative care includes but is not limited to palliative care), including:\n