Clinics in chest medicine
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Clinics in chest medicine · Jun 2017
ReviewPalliative and End-of-Life Care for Patients with Malignancy.
Patients with cancer continue to have unmet palliative care needs. Concurrent palliative care is tailored to the needs of patients as well as their families to relieve suffering. ⋯ Barriers to palliative care referral include workforce limitations, provider attitudes and perceptions, and potential ethnic and racial disparities in access to palliative care. Future work should focus on novel, patient-centered approaches to identify and address unmet palliative care needs for patients living with cancer.