2.1 () Building definitional consensus in palliative care

Question 1

What 3 common goals for palliative care

Answer 1

Reduce suffering
Reduce illness burden
Improve QOL

Question 2

What three strategies are suggested by WHO to achieve goals of PC?

Answer 2

1. Education
2. Access to meds
3. Research

Question 3

What four domains does the WHO definition of PC identify as being essential for care?

Answer 3

Physical
Psychological
Social
Spiritual

Question 4

What is the WHO definition of PC

Answer 4

An approach that improves QOL of patients and families facing the problems associated with life threatening illness through prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems physical, psychosocial, spiritual

FS:
Improve QOL
Relief suffering
Id, assess, treat
Symptoms, physical, psychosocial, spiritual