PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - FEM Murtagh
AU  - M Preston
AU  - I Higginson
TI  - Patterns of dying: palliative care for non-malignant disease
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-1-39
DP  - 2004 Jan 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 39--44
VI  - 4
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/39.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/39.full
SO  - Clin Med2004 Jan 01; 4
AB  - 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.