Oncology and Palliative Medicine: Providing Comprehensive Care for Patients With Cancer.

Conclusion: Palliative medicine has a wide-ranging role in the spectrum of comprehensive cancer care-from patient diagnosis to survivorship. The entire multidisciplinary care team has a role in providing palliative care in inpatient and outpatient settings. An effective palliative medicine and oncology collaboration improves patient care and quality of life, has broad research and guideline support, and is cost effective. PMID: 29230124 [PubMed]
Source: Ochsner Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Ochsner J Source Type: research