Ny definition av palliativ vård med fokus på lidande
(2020) In Lakartidningen 117.- Abstract
Palliative care was initially developed for patients with a cancer diagnosis and severe symptoms. Despite the ambition to broaden the palliative care approach to include other groups, patients with cancer are still a majority in specialised palliative care. The broader view and development of palliative care has led to an intense debate on existing definitions. Following a request from The Lancet Commission on global palliative care, the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) has presented a new definition. The proposal was developed in several stages, in collaboration with specialists in palliative care from a total of 88 countries. The IAHPC's definition differs from the WHO's definition in several aspects.... (More)
Palliative care was initially developed for patients with a cancer diagnosis and severe symptoms. Despite the ambition to broaden the palliative care approach to include other groups, patients with cancer are still a majority in specialised palliative care. The broader view and development of palliative care has led to an intense debate on existing definitions. Following a request from The Lancet Commission on global palliative care, the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) has presented a new definition. The proposal was developed in several stages, in collaboration with specialists in palliative care from a total of 88 countries. The IAHPC's definition differs from the WHO's definition in several aspects. Most importantly, the IAHPC's definition takes a reversed perspective and instead of focusing on life-threatening illness as motivating palliative care, the new proposal focuses on serious suffering of a person with severe illness.
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- author
- Alvariza, Anette ; Axelsson, Bertil ; Rasmussen, Birgit LU ; Terne Stedt, Britt Marie and Fürst, Carl Johan LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Redefining palliative care- focusing serious suffering of severe illness
- publishing date
- 2020-10-28
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Lakartidningen
- volume
- 117
- publisher
- Swedish Medical Association
- external identifiers
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- pmid:33150579
- scopus:85095676738
- ISSN
- 0023-7205
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- ce82bfec-2279-4ca5-891d-601f5e6f65ed
- alternative location
- https://lakartidningen.se/klinik-och-vetenskap-1/artiklar-1/rapport/2020/10/ny-definition-av-palliativ-vard-med-fokus-pa-lidande/
- date added to LUP
- 2020-11-26 13:55:21
- date last changed
- 2021-01-06 05:52:35
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