TY - BOOK ID - 78491760 TI - Palliative care and ethics AU - Quill, Timothy E AU - Miller, Franklin G PY - 2014 SN - 0199316686 9780199316687 9780199316670 0199316678 9780199316670 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Palliative treatment KW - Terminal care KW - End-of-life care KW - Terminally ill KW - Care of the sick KW - Critical care medicine KW - Death KW - Palliation (Medical care) KW - Palliative care KW - Palliative medicine KW - Therapeutics KW - Care and treatment KW - Medical care UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491760 AB - Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time. Palliative care offers careful attention to pain and symptom management, added support for patients and families, and assistance with difficult medical decision making alongside any and all desired medical treatments, but it does not include a comprehensive system of care as is provided by hospice. The practice of pall ER -