Palliative care
Palliative care is another term increasingly used to represent comfort-focused care for patients with lifethreatening
illnesses. In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) revised their definition of palliative
care to
an approach which improves quality of life of patients and their families facing 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