Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Palliative care is appropriate to support these patients . However, historically, palliative care has focused on supporting patients with malignant disease , rather than progressive chronic diseases such as COPD.
Palliative care is a resource available to anyone, regardless of age or stage of disease . 2 Similarly, the Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 3 supports the use of palliative care in patients with COPD regardless of disease stage.
Can early introduction of palliative care limit intensive care , emergency and hospital admissions in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ?
In these situations, palliative care initiated early in the COPD trajectory has the potential to provide significant QOL benefits for patients and their care partners to prepare them for the EOL. This is supported by Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines discussing a role for palliative care in COPD, 3
COPD patients' accessibility to palliative care
Gore, JM, Brophy, CJ and Greenstone, MA (2000) How well do we care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? A comparison of palliative care and quality of life in COPD and lung cancer.
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