Extending palliative care to patients with respiratory disease.
This article describes the importance of improving access to palliative care services of patients with advanced chronic respiratory disease. It outlines their needs, the challenges involved in meeting them and ways in which current models of care may need to be modified to increase access.
Cartwright
Yvonne
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Palliative Medicine, Hull and York Medical School, St Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough, N. York YO12 5RE.
Booth
Sara
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