RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Patterns of dying: palliative care for non-malignant disease
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 39
OP 44
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-1-39
VO 4
IS 1
A1 FEM Murtagh
A1 M Preston
A1 I Higginson
YR 2004
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/39.abstract
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.