Terminal care
Initially, terminal care was commonly used to describe care for dying patients, particularly in hospital
settings. However, over the last 30 years, the use of the term ‘‘end-of-life care’’ has gradually increased and
been substituted for ‘‘terminal care’’ in health-care literature written in English. Although ‘‘terminal care’’
is still used as a subheading indexing in health-care literature databases such as PubMed, ‘‘end-of-life care’’
has become the more broadly accepted term in English.