Symptom Management in Palliative Care and End of Life Care

摘要: There is a need for generalist- and specialist-level palliative care clinicians proficient in symptom management coordination. Major factors contributing to this include changed disease processes trajectories, improved medical techniques diagnostic testing, successful screening chronic conditions, drugs that often prolong life. The rapid progressive illnesses deaths plagued the first half of twentieth century have been replaced twenty-first by increased survival rates. Conditions require ongoing beyond year define current illness population. Long years are accompanied reduced quality life requires more nursing longer home care. This article reviews selected symptoms end