Palliative Care Palliative care is interdisciplinary care aimed at improving quality of life for patients by preventing and relieving suffering and supporting families.91 As such, it can be offered simultaneously with all other appropriate medical therapies. Palliative care is not synonymous with end-of-life care or hospice but can encompass them as the disease advances. Palliative care allows for continued disease-modifying therapies while ensuring symptom relief and interventions that address psychosocial, physical, and spiritual needs. This is done in 2 ways: by treating symptoms and by ensuring that patients ’ treatment plans match their values and goals.92–94 The process of shared decision making is a central tenet of palliative care: that the patient and clinician reach an understanding about preferences for life-prolonging therapy, symptom relief, pain control, and end-of-life care. Unlike hospice care (“Use of Hospice Services”), the application of palliative care is based on patient need rather than patient’s prognosis or life expectancy.