Palliative Care in Moroccan Children with Cancer: What are the Parent’s and Children’s Needs?
Journal Title: Palliative Medicine & Hospice Care – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Palliative care has been well defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a comprehensive care approach which “improves the quality of life (QoL) of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.”1 In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) emphasized the importance of offering an integrated model of palliative care that continues throughout the course of the illness.
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Laila Hessissen
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