TY - JOUR T1 - Patterns of dying: palliative care for non-malignant disease JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 39 LP - 44 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-1-39 VL - 4 IS - 1 AU - FEM Murtagh AU - M Preston AU - I Higginson Y1 - 2004/01/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/39.abstract N2 - As awareness grows of the palliative care needs of those diagnosed with advanced life-threatening illness other than cancer, consideration needs to be given to how to address these needs. This paper focuses on palliative care for those with such diagnoses by describing variations in illness trajectory according to diagnosis, and exploring how this may affect provision of palliative care. ER -