Victoria BGY palliative care model--a new model for the 1990s.
If, as palliative care practitioners, we ensure that distressing symptoms such as pain, vomiting, dyspnea, confusion, and pre-death restlessness are fully controlled (note "fully"), then most people are deeply appreciative and continue to live until they die, confident that whatever happens, their worth, desires, and comfort are secure. Credibility (Latin, fides dignus) is remaining true and reliable to what was agreed. Patients registering with palliative care generally desire comfort, which can only occur when palliative care physicians and programs are capable and willing to apply all three types of palliation discussed here--the BGY model.
Downing
G M
GM
Victoria Hospice Society, British Columbia, Canada.
Braithwaite
D L
DL
Wilde
J M
JM
D000208:Acute Disease; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001955:British Columbia; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D014739:Victoria