1. Practical tools for implementing early palliative care in advanced lung cancer
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Sisca Kohl, Toke Michielsen, Liesbeth Teugels, Jan P. van Meerbeeck, Bert Leysen, and Annelies Janssens
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lung Neoplasms ,Lung ,Palliative care ,business.industry ,Palliative Care ,MEDLINE ,Continuity of Patient Care ,respiratory system ,medicine.disease ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Pulmonary medicine ,Pulmonary Medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Human medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,Lung cancer ,business ,Pulmonologists - Abstract
We read with interest the article by Blum and Schönfeld [1]. Early introduction of palliative care (EPC) in the management of patients with advanced lung cancer is recommended because it improves quality of life and tends to produce better survival [2]. Hospital-based palliative teams mainly focus on terminal care for hospitalised patients. Involvement of the treating pulmonologist in this setting is warranted, as stated by Blum and Schönfeld [1]. We would like to show you how we started EPC in collaboration with the palliative team in our hospital (table 1).
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- 2016
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