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Palliative care was defined by the WHO in 1990 as “the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.” A broader and now commonly used definition is the one proposed by the WHO in 2002: “Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Palliative Care (See Hospice; Palliative Sedation). In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_393
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