An early palliative care intervention can be confronting but reassuring: A qualitative study on the experiences of patients with advanced cancer.

CONCLUSION: Early palliative care interventions like "Symptoms, End-of-life decisions, Network, Support" may provoke emotions and feel "confrontational" often because this is the first time when issues about one's end of life are openly discussed; yet, advanced cancer patients found it beneficial and felt it should be incorporated into routine care. PMID: 31068119 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068119?dopt=Abstract

Source: Palliative Medicine - May 8, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Fliedner M, Zambrano S, Schols JM, Bakitas M, Lohrmann C, Halfens RJ, Eychmüller S Tags: Palliat Med Source Type: research