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June 2006
 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care This executive summary presents a professional consensus from five
major United States palliative care organizations on clinical
guidelines for quality palliative care services. The effort to
integrate palliative care into all health care for persons with
debilitating and life-threatening illnesses should help to ensure
that:
- Pain and symptom control,
psychosocial distress, spiritual issues, and practical needs are
addressed with the patient and family throughout the continuum of care
- Patients and families obtain the
information they need in an on-going and understandable manner, in
order to grasp their condition and treatment options
- Genuine coordination of care
across settings is ensured through regular and high-quality
communication between providers at times of transition or changing
needs, and through effective continuity of care that utilizes the
techniques of case management
- Both the patient and family are
prepared for the dying process and for death, when it is
anticipated. Hospice options are explored, opportunities for
personal growth are enhanced, and bereavement support is available
for the family
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