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imported>Howard C. Berkowitz (New page: {{subpages}} ==Parent topics== {{r|Prognosis}} ==Subtopics== {{r|Comfort care}} {{r|Hospice}} {{r|Pain and palliative medicine}} {{r|Elizabeth Kubler-Ross}} {{r|Cicely Saunders}} ==Oth...) |
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Revision as of 12:42, 18 November 2009
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- Comfort care [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hospice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Palliative care [r]: Medical care or treatment that concentrates on alleviating the severity of disease symptoms, rather than striving to provide a cure. [e]
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cicely Saunders [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Assisted suicide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. [e]
- Futile care [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Triage [r]: The process of sorting victims of disease or violence, so the greatest number can be helped with the available resources, and treatment prioritized to have the best chance of preserving life. [e]