Fig. 2. Tenets of palliative care.

Palliative care is often conflated with hospice care, but importantly differs by its integration or parallel administration with curative or life-prolonging treatments. Hospice is more narrow in scope, applies to a select group of patients at the end of life, and aims to affirm life while enabling a ‘good death’. A useful analogy compares palliative care to a pie and emphasizes that hospice is but a narrow slice of that pie. However, as hospice falls under the general discipline of palliative care these two disciplines share many core principles.