title: Care for the terminally ill: a life-affirming paradigm.
abstract: By incorporating the core values of end-of-life patients and their families into care decisions, providers can offer compassionate care for the dying and avoid unnecessary and futile efforts that not only increase health care costs but often violate the spiritual, emotional, and cultural needs and wishes of the patients and their families.
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D001293:Attitude to Death; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019468:Disease Management; D017051:Hospice Care; D006801:Humans; D009922:Oregon; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012944:Social Support; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*