Articles: palliative-care.
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Interstitial lung disease (ILD) results in profound symptom burden and carries high mortality. Palliative care (PC) is dedicated to improving quality of life in patients with serious illness. Early PC provision improves rates of advance care planning and symptom management in patients with ILD. ⋯ Most ILD providers use PC and are comfortable discussing PC. Barriers to PC identified in this survey include the following: perceived lack of local access to PC, lack of systematic tools to assess symptom burden, lack of established optimal timing of PC referral, and unclear need for specialized PC delivery.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Aug 2022
Furthering Palliative Care Training in Latin America: Development and Assessment of an Advanced Diploma Course in Palliative Care in Chile.
The vast majority of people with serious health-related suffering in low- and middle-income countries lack access to palliative care (PC). In Latin America, this shortage is critical, and PC education is greatly needed. ⋯ There is a critical shortage of PC in Latin America where PC education is greatly needed. The lessons learned from this pilot advanced PC diploma course will inform further PC educational development in Latin America. The results of our course assessments show that an advanced diploma course can increase participants' PC knowledge, behaviors, and self-efficacy with a goal of leveraging the Train the Trainer model to increase PC educational leadership and enable training at participants' home institutions.