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What is palliative care?

What is palliative care? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients.
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Focus groups were used in an exploratory study to examine the perceptions of palliative care among cardiorespiratory nurses.
She willingly lectures at conferences on palliative care, oncology nursing, and pain management.
In effect he found that feeding via intravenous drip constitutes medical treatment, not palliative care.
Their comments illustrate how difficult and controversial paediatric palliative care still is.
Physicians are believed to know how to ensure a painless death, and they are in a position to offer palliative care knowledgeably.
Such prescriptions may affect two thirds of inpatients in specialist palliative care units.

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