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Ann Acad Med Singap · Mar 1994
Central Sydney Palliative Care Service: potential and limitations of an integrated palliative care service based in a metropolitan teaching hospital.
- J N Lickiss, J Wiltshire, P A Glare, and R W Chye.
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Central Sydney Palliative Care Service, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Ann Acad Med Singap. 1994 Mar 1; 23 (2): 264-70.
AbstractPalliative care needs to be available wherever needed, in hospital and home, and should be part of mainstream health care. Palliative care should be concurrent with anti-disease therapy, and includes but goes beyond "terminal care". The World Health Organization (WHO) encourages such development. Palliative care in Australia takes on many forms. Central Sydney Palliative Care Service based in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH), Camperdown, is an example of mainstream palliative care integrating home and hospital care. Almost all units of RPAH refer patients to the palliative care service. Approximately 1000 new patients are referred annually by doctors (specialists or general practitioners) for medical consultation. Registrar (fellow) training in palliative medicine is a feature of the service. Palliative care in a hospital or community-based service is an issue of justice and equity, and gives structure to compassion.
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