Referral criteria to palliative care for patients with respiratory disease: a systematic review

Conclusion
Clinicians consider referral to specialist palliative care for a wide range of disease- and needs-based criteria. Our findings highlight the need to standardise palliative care access by developing consensus referral criteria for patients with advanced nonmalignant respiratory illnesses.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 21, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Philip, J., Collins, A., Smallwood, N., Chang, Y. K., Mo, L., Yang, I. A., Corte, T., McDonald, C. F., Hui, D. Tags: Review Source Type: research