Palliative Service: Difference between revisions

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For the purpose of data collection for the Regional ICU/Medicine database the definition of '''[[Palliative care]]''' is as follows:

**The focus of care is geared to the treatment of those conditions & symptoms that are "reversible" to maintain comfort and quality of life for a long as possible for those patients who have been diagnosed with an underlying terminal disease condition that cannot be cured and who's death is apparent but not immediately imminent.

**The focus of care is geared to the treatment of those conditions & symptoms that are "reversible" to maintain comfort and quality of life for a long as possible for those patients who have been diagnosed with an underlying '''terminal disease''' condition that cannot be cured and who's death is apparent but not immediately imminent.

*Terminal disease (Cancer, end stage heart disease, end stage lung disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_illness

*there is documentation in the chart (history, orders or consult forms) that patient is "palliative care".

*ACP status(1 to 4)is not relevant and should not be used as the guide to decide if patient is palliative care or not.

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 For the purpose of data collection for the Regional ICU/Medicine database the definition of '''[[Palliative care]]''' is as follows:
-**The focus of care is geared to the treatment of those conditions & symptoms that are "reversible" to maintain comfort and quality of life for a long as possible for those patients who have been diagnosed with an underlying terminal disease condition that cannot be cured and who's death is apparent but not immediately imminent.
+**The focus of care is geared to the treatment of those conditions & symptoms that are "reversible" to maintain comfort and quality of life for a long as possible for those patients who have been diagnosed with an underlying '''terminal disease''' condition that cannot be cured and who's death is apparent but not immediately imminent.
+*Terminal disease (Cancer, end stage heart disease, end stage lung disease.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_illness
 *there is documentation in the chart (history, orders or consult forms) that patient is "palliative care".
 *ACP status(1 to 4)is not relevant and should not be used as the guide to decide if patient is palliative care or not.