Topics in Palliative Care

Book Overview

Palliative care focuses on the management of disease symptoms that produce discomfort and pain, compromise function, or otherwise undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive medical disorders. It is a fundamental part of clinical practice, the necessary companion to therapies directed at the prolongation of life and the cure of disease. As a clinical specialty, palliative care is just beginning to define itself in the United States...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195102444
• ISBN13: 9780195102444
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"