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. 2021 Mar 30;35(6):988–1004. doi: 10.1177/02692163211006313

Box 1.

World Health Organisation’s definition of Palliative Care. 34

‘Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychological and spiritual’.